Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHAB) cause extensive problems in lakes
worldwide, including human and ecological health risks, anoxia and fish kills, and taste and …

Risk perceptions are important to the policy process, but there is often a well‐established
pattern of small risks being over assessed. This is also true with the issue of non‐native …

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist A provocative exploration of the
“new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong For a …

Lake Victoria endured multiple stresses over the past century including population growth,
increased cultivation of land, meteorological variability, resource extraction, intensive …

Harmful algal blooms threaten the water quality of many eutrophic and hypertrophic lakes
and cause severe ecological and economic damage worldwide. Dense blooms often …

Abstract The Yangtze River Basin downstream of China's Three Gorges Dam
(TGD)(thereafter referred to as “downstream” basin) hosts the largest cluster of freshwater …

The term eutrophication broadly refers to the enrichment of aquatic systems by inorganic
plant nutrients (Mason, 1991; Wetzel, 2001). Lake eutrophication occurs when nutrient …

Lakes have a disproportionate effect on the global carbon (C) cycle relative to their area,
mediating C transfer from land to atmosphere, and burying organic-C in their sediments. The …

The first identification of anatoxin-a in a French lotic system is reported. Rapid deaths of
dogs occurred in 2003 after the animals drank water from the shoreline of the La Loue River …

The Great Lakes of East Africa are collectively the earth's most remarkable and species-rich
freshwater feature. Intrinsic biological factors and extrinsic ecological opportunities allowed …