Abstract According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released in
September 2014, unprecedented changes in temperature and precipitation patterns have …

Microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems has become a global issue in recent years due
to its presence everywhere around the world. Although several studies have explored the …

Cladocerans are widely distributed in aquatic ecosystems and are sensitive to
environmental changes; hence, they are commonly used to trace ecological changes in …

Crustacean zooplankton occupy a key position as primary consumers within lake food webs,
acting as early indicators of wider ecosystem shifts that can cascade to higher trophic levels …

Using pollen analysis and metabarcoding of plant sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNa), we
infer the floristic diversity in the vicinity of Lake Balyktukel, Ulagan Plateau, the Altai …

Community structure is determined by a variety of ecological mechanisms, including
environmental control, dispersal, and historical contingency. Recently, many studies have …

Cladocerans are biological indicators of environmental changes. Their remains provide
information on past changes in lake environments. We studied the correspondence between …

Body size is a key trait of an organism which determines the dynamics of predator–prey
interactions. Most empirical studies on the individual size distribution of the aquatic …

Climate warming threatens the structure and function of shallow lakes, not least those in the
Mediterranean climate. We used a space-for-time substitution approach to assess the …

We conducted a fish survey in 40 lakes in western and central Turkey. Fifty species (one to
eleven per lake) were recorded, including eighteen endemic and seven alien species. We …