The input of senescent terrestrial leaf litter into soil and aquatic ecosystems is one of the
most massive cyclic subsidies on Earth, particularly within forested ecosystems. For …

A major conceptual gap in taste biology is the lack of a general framework for understanding
the evolution of different taste modalities among animal species. We turn to two …

Animal migrations transport resources among spatially separate ecosystems, effectively
linking them. In freshwater ecosystems, numerous fish species migrate between mainstream …

Energy flow and nutrient cycling dictate the functional role of organisms in ecosystems.
Fishes are key vectors of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in aquatic systems …

Invasive fish species can play an important role in aquatic ecosystems and have a
significant impact on ecosystem dynamics, which influences primary production, planktonic …

The effects of single macrofauna taxa on benthic nitrogen (N) cycling have been extensively
studied, whereas how macrofaunal communities affect N-related processes remains poorly …

Aim The aim was to document how body stoichiometry of heterotrophs varies globally and to
assess phylogenetic, trophic, habitat and body mass drivers of this interspecific variation in …

Throughout the course of their lives fish ingest food containing essential elements, including
nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and iron (Fe). Some of these elements are retained in the fish …

This review features recent updates on planktonic community alteration attributed to shellfish
farming across three major drivers: predation, nutrient availability and the hydrodynamic …

Barkol Lake, a shrinking hypersaline lake situated in the northeast of Xinjiang, China, has
experienced the exposure of its riverbed and the gradual drying up of its original sediment …