Wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and ...

Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1% of Earth but support 10% of all species. Nearly a quarter of these species face ...

In the top-down approach, the carbon balance from an atmospheric perspective ... a terrestrial signal with little interference from aquatic ecosystems. Consequently, carbon export from terrestrial ...

Ponds are complex aquatic ecosystems. They play home to plants, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. They also consist of many non-living factors like temperature, oxygen and ...