The proliferation of microplastics and nanoplastics is a global environmental challenge, particularly because of their biological uptake, bioaccumulation, biomagnification, and trophic transfer across ecosystems. This study presents a bibliometric an...
The analysis of body shape variability has always been a central element in biology. More recently, geometric morphometry has developed as a new field in shape analysis, with the aim to study body morphological variations and the identification of th...
North Tunisia’s Joumine reservoir provides water for drinking and agriculture irrigation purposes. Therefore, its water quality is crucial, especially with the recurrence of dry years in a global climate change context. This study aims to evalu...
The red panda (Ailurus), a rare and endangered mammal native to the Himalayan–Hengduan Mountains, has a specialized bamboo diet. Combining morphological and genomic evidence, red pandas have been classified as Ailurus fulgens and Ailurus styani...
Climate change has led to significant fluctuations in marine ecosystems. As a component of the food web, the trophic diversity and spatiotemporal changes of fish communities are crucial for understanding ecosystems. In recent years, stable isotope an...
Our study investigates the trophic ecology of the anchoveta (Engraulis ringens). The anchoveta plays a key role in the Greater Humboldt Ecosystem and is extensively exploited by countries from the south-eastern Pacific Ocean. For a comprehensive stud...
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) has been demonstrated to be a very useful tool to minimize the waste product production of fish monocultures whilst promoting biomass that can be used for different purposes. The stable isotope analysis (&d...
Understanding the trophic interactions and community structure of zooplankton is essential for assessing energy transfer in marine ecosystems. This study investigates the spatial and seasonal variations in stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (&de...
Paldang Reservoir, located in the Han River basin in South Korea, is used for drinking water, fishing, irrigation, recreation, and hydroelectric power. Therefore, the water quality of the reservoir is of great importance. The main objectives of this...
The dynamic predator–prey relations in the food web are vital for understanding the function and structure of ecosystems. Dietary estimation is a research hotspot of quantitative ecology, providing key insights into predator–prey relation...
Newly constructed regulation reservoirs experience dramatic seasonal environmental shifts, yet the temporal dynamics of their aquatic food webs remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the seasonal variations in fish community structu...
When species spread into new regions, competition with native species and predatory–prey relationships play a major role in whether the new species can successfully establish itself in the recipient food web and become invasive. In aquatic habi...
Stable isotope analyses of food webs have been used in previous decades to determine trophic sources and food web structures. The use of stable isotope models to estimate consumption contributions is based on a type of multivariate beta distribution...
We present a 30-year analysis of water quality trends in Grand Teton National Park, based on 715 sampling events we collected at 33 locations across 29 lakes from 1995 to 2025. Our dataset includes Secchi depth, chlorophyll-a, and total phosphorus, c...
Increasing plastic contamination poses a serious threat to marine organisms. Microplastics (MPs) ingestion can represent a risk for the organism itself and for the ultimate consumer. Through the analysis of the gastrointestinal tract, coupled with st...
Spiders act as one of the major predators among arthropods in agroecosystems and are crucial to the control of pest densities. As they are almost exclusively predators, they have developed a number of hunting strategies, which have consequently impac...
The feeding ecology of sympatric elasmobranchs provides key insights into trophic interactions and species coexistence within demersal ecosystems. The current study examined the diet composition and trophic relationships of three skate species (Raja ...
The study of the trophic relationships of aquatic animals requires correct estimates of their diets. We compared the quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) and the isotope-mixing model IsoError, based on the compound-specific isotope anal...
This study contributes to filling knowledge gaps regarding recent information on the diet of the European hake, Merluccius merluccius Linnaeus, 1758, in the Greek seas, particularly its ontogenetic shifts and its spatiotemporal variability. The troph...
Seasonal hydrology reshapes large-river food webs by altering habitat connectivity and basal resource availability. Trophic baselines from before the 2021 Yangtze ten-year fishing ban are now valuable because monitoring has shifted from fish abundanc...
Given the increasing demand for water and the need to reduce energy consumption, modern wastewater treatment systems should be characterised by high pollutant removal efficiency while consuming low resources. Hydrophytic wastewater treatment plants w...
Understanding dietary behavior during the individual development of marine predators and its temporal variations elucidates how species adapt to changes in marine resources. This is crucial for predicting marine predators’ habitat selection and...
To assess the impact of Enchytraeidae (potworms) on the functioning of the decomposer system, knowledge of the feeding preferences of enchytraeid species is required. Different food preferences can be explained by variations in enzymatic activities a...
Given the great importance of lakes in Earth’s environment and human life, continuous water quality (WQ) monitoring within the frame of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the most crucial aspect for lake management. In this study, Earth Obs...
Despite its global importance for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems and its contribution in providing economic benefits to human society, the clade Anthophila is in severe decline worldwide. In this context, counteracting the decline in Apoidea i...
Shallow lakes are vulnerable to multiple anthropogenic stressors. However, the spatial responses of benthic ecosystems to these composite disturbances and the underlying mechanisms driving them remain poorly understood. Nansi Lake is a strategic wate...
Eutrophication is a pervasive issue in Mediterranean reservoirs, where external nutrient inputs and internal sediment releases interact to impair water quality and ecological stability. This study assessed the trophic condition of the artificial lake...
The gall midge Lasioptera donacis, whose larval stage interferes with the reed’s leaf development, is a potential candidate agent for the biological control of Arundo donax. Reed infestation is always associated with the presence of a saprophyt...
Elasmobranchs play a major role in shaping the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems through their position in food webs. The Lusitanian cownose ray Rhinoptera marginata, a benthopelagic species classified as Critically Endangered on the IUC...
Urbanization affects bird communities by reducing habitat and fragmenting ecosystems. Urban parks can help counteract these effects. However, anthropogenic noise can further alter bird composition. We examined the distribution and abundance of bird s...
High Andean lagoons in southern Peru have critical hydrological and ecological functions; however, long-term time series integrating trophic, integral quality, and metal contamination metrics to support adaptive management are lacking. A total of 184...
The Saemangeum Reservoir is an artificial reservoir created following completion of a 33.9-km-long seawall in 2010, with seawater inflow regulated through two sluice gates. After construction of the seawall, reduced seawater exchange, increased fresh...
Diet analysis is a critical content of animal ecology and the diet analysis methods have been constantly improving and updating. Contrary to traditional methods of high labor intensity and low resolution, the next generation sequencing (NGS) approach...
Today, open-source Cloud Computing platforms are valuable for geospatial image analysis while the combination of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform and new satellite launches greatly facilitate the monitoring of national-scale lake Water Quality...
The present study is the attempt to combine oceanologic measurements and biochemical analysis, which is as possible to implement on board as in a laboratory with chosen certain statistics to reveal trophic conditions and the environment state in whic...
Understanding cyanobacterial dominance in tropical reservoirs is crucial for water management. This study examined the dynamics of water quality in the João Leite Reservoir, situated in the Brazilian Cerrado, utilising 30 months of monitoring...
The diets of insular lizards are extremely varied, depending on the different environmental characteristics of each island population. This is particularly evident in the case of the populations of small coastal islets of the Balearic Islands, where...
In this paper, a delayed fractional-order three-trophic-level food chain model with Allee effect and prey shelter is proposed and analyzed. The model adopts the Caputo fractional derivative to describe the memory effect, and introduces two discrete t...
Bats (Chiroptera) provide critical ecosystem services, including pest suppression, pollination, and seed dispersal. Understanding their dietary ecology is essential for conservation management yet has historically been constrained by methodological l...
Vine growing is one of the most economically important sectors of Mediterranean agriculture, but its cultivation practices are highly detrimental to the environment and the associated biota. The application of both natural products inducing endogenou...
The range of food resources consumed by opportunistic carnivores is shaped by habitat-specific availability and productivity. However, baseline data on the diet of the Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi) in managed wetland habitats remain scarce. Firstl...
Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) are essential to the nutrition, metabolism, and physiological performance of aquatic animals. This hybrid review combines bibliometric analysis with focused thematic synthesis to examine three decades...
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...
Eutrophication is an environmental pollution problem that occurs in natural water bodies. Regression analyses with interaction terms are carried out to identify the factors influencing the Shimen, Mingde, and Fongshan Reservoirs in Taiwan. The result...
The association between corals and photosynthetic dinoflagellates is one of the most well-known nutritional symbioses, but nowadays it is threatened by global changes. Nutritional exchanges are critical to understanding the performance of this symbio...
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Rotifer abundance and species composition in lakes of the Suwalki Landscape Park were studied in the years 1983–1985, 2009, 2012 and 2015. Rotifer trophic state indices (TSIROT) were used to assess changes in the trophic state of the studied lakes. I...
The Paldang Reservoir (PDR), the largest artificial lake in the Republic of Korea, has recently experienced increased chemical oxygen demand (COD), eutrophication, and algal blooms due to climate change. This study aimed to analyze the hydrological c...
Intrinsic tracers, such as stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen, are common dietary markers that accumulate in the muscle tissue of consumers and can be used to determine the dietary sources and trophic positions of consumers. The aim of this study...
Understanding energy flow and nutrient pathways is crucial to reveal the dynamics and functions of riverine ecosystems and develop appropriate conservation strategies. In this study, we utilized stable isotopes of δ13C and δ15N to examine...
The intensification of anthropogenic activities has led to the infiltration of enormous quantities of pollutants into rivers and lakes, resulting in significant deterioration in water quality and a more prominent occurrence of eutrophication. Poyang...
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