Lake Taihu, a large, shallow freshwater lake in China, has experienced severe eutrophication for decades under intense human activities occurring around cities. Through long-term water quality management since 1995, the eutrophication of Lake Taihu h...
Freshwater shallow lakes are vulnerable to global warming, putting entire aquatic ecosystems at risk, but evidence from managed reservoirs remains limited despite the existence of long-term empirical data. Using data from 29 stations on Lake Tisza co...
Stable isotopes of lake waters are widely used to identify the relative importance of hydrological processes on the lake water balance across the ungauged landscape via the coupled-isotope tracer model. The isotopic compositions of twenty shallow fre...
2 February 2023
Background: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been commonly found in aquatic ecosystems. Many studies have elucidated the bioaccumulation and biomagnification of PBDEs in seas and lakes, yet few have comprehensively evaluated the bioaccumul...
High-frequency monitoring provides a practical approach for detecting short-term oxygen instability and pre-transition stress accumulation in eutrophic shallow lakes. In this study, dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, water temperature, and electrical conduct...
Global warming and eutrophication contribute to formation of HABs and distribution of alien cyanobacteria northward. The current study assessed how alien to Europe Sphaerospermopsis aphanizomenoides and Chrysosporum bergii will co-occur with dominant...
Shallow lakes are globally the most numerous water bodies and are sensitive to external perturbations, including eutrophication and climate change, which threaten their functioning. Extreme events, such as heat waves (HWs), are expected to become mor...
The extreme environmental conditions of the diverse saline inland waters (soda lakes and pans, hypersaline lakes and ponds) of the Carpathian Basin are an advantage for picophytoplankton. The abundance of picophytoplankton in these waters can be up t...
The dynamics of shallow water areas of inland lakes is closely related to the regional ecology and economy. However, it is still a challenge to extract the natural shallow water area for inland lakes using satellite images due to their rapid changes...
Inland freshwater shallow lake ecosystem degradation is indistinctly intertwined with human-induced factors and climate variability. Changes in climate and human-induced factors significantly influence the state of lake ecosystems. This study provide...
Anthropogenic activities have greatly modified freshwater flows through Everglades National Park (ENP) such that saltwater has intruded extensively inland from the coastline, causing coastal lakes and their ecosystems to be exposed to varying salinit...
The cold conditions of these habitats, as well as the morphometric features and origins of long-term ice-covered freshwater lakes, influence the structure and diversity of bacterial communities, which remain poorly understood. This study focused on l...
This study focuses on the analysis of sediment core retrieved from the deepest part (25 m) of Pirovac Bay. A long sedimentary sequence (7.45 m) supplemented by a shorter sediment core (1.45 m) from a shallower part of the bay was analyzed for sedimen...
Lake Baikal is a unique oligotrophic freshwater lake with unusually cold conditions and amazing biological diversity. Studies of the lake’s viral communities have begun recently, and their full diversity is not elucidated yet. Here, we performed DNA...
Length–weight relationships (LWRs), condition factors, and their variation over time were analyzed for four exotic freshwater fish (bleak, common carp, pikeperch, and roach) in the Estany d’Ivars i Vila-sana shallow lake in Catalonia, Nor...
Algal blooms occurrence is increasing around the globe. However, algal blooms are uncommon in dominantly oligotrophic high-altitude lakes. Lake Titicaca, the largest freshwater lake in South America, located at 3809 m above the sea level, experienced...
The Huanggang depression in eastern China is a significant Cenozoic salt-bearing basin that formed during the alternating dry and wet climate periods from the Eocene to the Oligocene. Despite the economic importance of the Huanggang depression, its s...
Human impacts cause significant problems for shallow lakes in the karst regions of South China. In recent years, the ecological issues related to managing and restoring these critical aquatic ecosystems have come to the fore. Lingshui Pool (LSP) is o...
This work aims to validate the wide use of an algorithm developed using genetic programing (GP) techniques allowing to discern between water and non-water pixels using the near infrared band and different thresholds. A total of 34 wetlands and shallo...
There are thousands of lakes in the Tibetan Plateau (TP), and most are saline. However, little is known about the responses of TP lakes to climate change, especially saline ones. We investigated the thermal responses of the largest freshwater lake (N...
This is the first seasonal observation study on nutrient dynamics undertaken in a small freshwater lake with eutrophication in Mongolia. The vertical profile and seasonal fluctuation of nutrients are crucial to understanding the biogeochemical cycles...
Climate change is leading to more extreme weather like droughts, threatening wetland ecosystem and waterbird populations worldwide. During the winter of 2022–2023, Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake, experienced its most extreme...
Baiyangdian Lake, the largest freshwater lake in North China, plays a critical role in the ecological security of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration. This study conducted systematic monitoring of Baiyangdian Lake from April 202...
Freshwater lake eutrophication is a global concern causing adverse effects on aquatic ecosystems. The degradation of lake aquatic–terrestrial ecotones, which are the transitional zones between terrestrial and water ecosystems, contributes to eu...
South American galaxiids occupy both Patagonia and the ichthyogeographic Chilean Province, encompassing glacial Andean deep lakes, shallow plateau lakes, reservoirs, short Pacific rivers and long Atlantic rivers. The total fish fauna includes 29 spec...
Interest in Stable Isotopes Analyses (SIA) is increasing in freshwater ecology to better clarify ecosystems’ functioning. By measuring carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures, food sources and organism trophic levels can be tracked, providing quantit...
Lakes in coastal lowland areas represent a critically vulnerable environment as a transitional space between freshwater and seawater environments. The paleoenvironmental reconstruction and anthropogenic impact are assessed through the lake sediment c...
Climate change has a strong impact on inland water bodies such as lakes. This means that the increase in lake temperature recorded in recent decades-in Europe as well-can change the evaporation regime of the lakes. This, together with the variation o...
During the past few decades, the ecosystems of lakes have been reshaped greatly by global climate change and expanding human activities. As the second largest freshwater lake in China, Dongting Lake is the most important regulating lake in the Yangtz...
Submerged macrophyte and periphyton are main primary producers which strongly interact with each other in clear water shallow lakes. In this study, the effects of genetic variation of the macrophyte species on periphyton biomass were studied in five...
Lake Chaohu, which is a large, shallow, hypertrophic freshwater lake in southeastern China, has been experiencing lake-wide toxic Microcystis blooms in recent decades. To illuminate the relationships between microcystin (MC) production, the genotypic...
Freshwater bivalves influence ecosystem functioning by transferring pelagic material to the benthos through filtration and biodeposition, yet quantitative multiscale evidence remains scarce for South American lakes. We assessed the role of the native...
31 March 2022
This study aimed to compare concentrations of chlorophyll-a between individual phytoplankton groups for four shallow Baltic coastal lakes, varying in type of connection with the sea. For two years, the research focused on quantifying the effects of a...
Baiyangdian Lake, the largest freshwater shallow lake on the North China Plain, plays a pivotal role in maintaining the regional ecological balance and biodiversity. Meiofauna are integral components of Baiyangdian Lake; however, their community char...
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is generally the dominant carbon pool in freshwater lakes and plays a vital role in the regional or even global carbon cycle. In recent years, steppe lakes have been subject to two stressors: eutrophication and abnormal...
Lake Vostok is the largest of the nearly 400 subglacial Antarctic lakes and has been continuously buried by glacial ice for 15 million years. Extreme cold, heat (from possible hydrothermal activity), pressure (from the overriding glacier) and dissolv...
Eutrophication of freshwater bodies is primarily caused by excessive nitrogen and phosphorus, resulting in significant environmental challenges, including harmful algal blooms and hypoxia. This review examines the potential for natural and modified z...
Recent studies have revealed how the freshwater biota of Lake Baikal responds to climate change and anthropogenic impacts. We studied phyto- and zooplankton, as well as phyto- and zoobenthos, in the open coastal waters of the southern basin of the la...
We estimated the net exchange of nitrogen and phosphorus species using core incubations under light and dark conditions in estuarine lakes that are the aquatic interface between the freshwater Everglades and marine Florida Bay. These lakes and adjace...
Lake Taihu, China’s third-largest freshwater lake, faces severe eutrophication challenges and therefore requires innovative ecological restoration strategies. This study systematically evaluates the ecological effects of aquatic vegetation rest...
20 November 2022
Monodominant (one species dominates) or polidominant (multiple species dominate) cyanobacterial blooms are pronounced in productive freshwater ecosystems and pose a potential threat to the biota due to the synthesis of toxins. Seasonal changes in cya...
A study was conducted to evaluate zooplankton species composition, abundance, and diversity in both natural and artificial lakes with varying trophic levels and to determine the relationship between zooplankton community structure and lake environmen...
Spring algal blooms in mid–high-latitude lakes are facing serious challenges such as earlier outbreaks, longer duration, and increasing frequency under the dual pressure of climate warming and human activities, which threaten the health of fres...
Electromagnetic underwater communications are strongly limited by water conductivity and depth, particularly at ISM frequencies above 900 MHz. Although LoRa technology has been widely adopted in low-power wireless sensor networks, experimental studie...
Rich ecosystems such as estuaries and brackish lakes are vulnerable to the effects of human activities and are prone to environmental changes. In particular, the salt environment, which is the backbone of the environment, might be affected not only b...
The concentration of microplastics (MPs) in two important Hungarian freshwater habitats was determined in the size range of 50 μm–1 mm. Lake Balaton (LB) is the largest shallow lake in Central Europe, with a significant role in recreation an...
Eutrophication, driven by excessive nutrient inputs from agriculture, wastewater, and aquaculture, remains a pressing challenge for freshwater ecosystems. In response, the EU Nature Restoration Law (2024) sets ambitious targets for restoring degraded...
Bacterial activities drive most of the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and, thus, much effort has been devoted to understanding the mechanisms governing their community assemblies in nature. In freshwater ecosystems, selection has been found to b...
Sedimentary organic matter is an important component of the metabolism of a lake’s ecosystem, and it is generally derived from both the watershed and the primary productivity of a lake. Understanding the sources of organic matter in lakes and l...
The Lower Submember of the Second Member of the Lianggaoshan Formation (LGS2-LS) in the Fuling area, southeastern Sichuan Basin, represents the deepest lacustrine depositional stage of the formation and constitutes an important target for shale oil a...
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