Please Leaf: We Need New Ways to Control Aquatic Weeds
Weeds may be annoying to gardners, but they can prove devastating for ecosystems once they escape into the environment, leaving no space for native plants and animals. Read More…
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Microscopic Invasion: Microplastics in Fish and Other Challenges
Whether we realize it’s happening or not, we can expose ourselves to environmental pollution hundreds of times a day, whether by air, water, or land. These pollutants Read More…
Focus on the Positive: Beneficial Interactions in Freshwater
Similar to the variety of relationships that play out in our homes and workplaces, many of the interactions between species sharing the same space can influence the Read More…
Fish, Feathers, and Fur: First-ever Joint Meeting of The American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society
The 149th annual American Fisheries Society meeting held from September 29–October 3 in Reno, Nevada, was a truly unique experience for the thousands of fisheries professionals who Read More…
Fish & Feathers: Salmon Promote Songbird Diversity
Watersheds that support salmon benefit from an annual influx of nutrients delivered by this migrating fishy convoy. When salmon return to their natal streams to spawn and Read More…
Missing Megafauna: Worldwide Decline of Large Aquatic Animals
For many people, the term “megafauna” evokes images of terrestrial or marine behemoths of bygone eras, like the mastodon or the megalodon. But contemporary Earth is home Read More…
Food Flight: Fish Hitch a Ride in Bird Guts
Fish can show up in remarkable places, like ponds disconnected from any other body of water or remote alpine lakes. Sure, sometimes they get a first-class flight Read More…
Fish in Space: Where the fish are, and why we need to know
Fish have to swim – and as a result, most fish are constantly on the move, some displaying very complex migration patterns over the course of their Read More…
Big-Picture Stream Science
Studying stream ecology is often an involved process. Freshwater ecologists have to travel to their study sites, take a series of complicated measurements (such as gathering water Read More…
Caching in
Birds use trees for everything from shelter to food, but the acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) shows a particular knack for tree storage and a flair for display. Read More…