FLATHEAD LAKE, Montana – Invasive species cause biodiversity loss and about $120 billion in annual damages in the U.S. alone. Despite plentiful evidence that invasive species can change food webs, how ...

Meteorologist Paul Roebber anticipates future winters on Lake Michigan will look a lot like the one we've just experienced — warmer and ice-cover-free. Lake Michigan is teeming with life. But over ...

Phytoplankton is an important component of the food-web and is predated by a wide variety of aquatic organisms, such as water fleas, copepods and fish. These microscopic algae also play a crucial role ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A Finnish-Dutch research group has examined the terrestrial ...

The Tahoe Environmental Research Center, or TERC, at the University of California, Davis, released its annual Tahoe: State of the Lake Report, describing the past year as one of rapid biological ...

Cobbetts Pond in Windham has been flagged by DES for elevated PFAS levels in fish tissue. Credit: Amanda Pirani / New Hampshire Bulletin Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

After 50 years, lake trout were the dominant apex predator in these food webs. The study shows that, given enough time, invasive lake trout can disrupt and replace a native fish species -- like bull ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. Finnish Dutch research group examined terrestrial reliance ...