Winter conditions are rapidly changing in temperate ecosystems, particularly for those that
experience periods of snow and ice cover. Relatively little is known of winter ecology in …

Floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) installations are increasing globally. However, their
interaction with the hosting water body and implications for ecosystem function is poorly …

Considering it is common to find as much as 100-fold variation in the number of 16S rRNA
gene sequences across samples in a study, researchers need to control for the effect of …

Among its many impacts, climate warming is leading to increasing winter air temperatures,
decreasing ice cover extent, and changing winter precipitation patterns over the Laurentian …

Environmental DNA analyses of fungal communities typically reveal a much larger diversity
than can be ascribed to known species. Much of this hidden diversity lies within undescribed …

Northern lakes are ice‐covered for a large part of the year, yet our understanding of
microbial diversity and activity during winter lags behind that of the ice‐free period. In this …

Arctic and alpine aquatic ecosystems are changing rapidly under recent global warming,
threatening water resources by diminishing trophic status and changing biotic composition …

Millions of lakes worldwide are distributed at latitudes or elevations resulting in the formation
of lake ice during winter. Lake ice affects the transfer of energy, heat, light, and material …

We present the first evidence of biological change in all of the pelagic Laurentian Great
Lakes associated with recent climatic warming. We hypothesized that measured changes in …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) was used to analyze the seasonal variations in the
bacterioplankton community composition (BCC) in the euphotic layer of a large and deep …