A benthic aquatic macroinvertebrate is a small creature that does not have a backbone and lives at the bottom of a body of ...

Food webs can be used to reveal different patterns of energy transfer in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Patterns of energy flow through different ecosystems may differ markedly in terrestrial ...

I nsects and spiders are important elements in the food webs of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. With declines in their biodiversity, the food supply for birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and ...

Ecosystems face a combination of stressors that can interact in complex ways, leading to either synergistic (amplifying) or antagonistic (dampening) effects. It is necessary to understand how these ...

Food web interactions in lake ecosystems and disturbances affecting these interactions are one of the main topics in our research. In aquatic food webs, predation (top-down regulation) regulates the ...

Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems ... complex food webs that not only ...

leading them to dominate ecosystems and disrupt food webs. Rusty crayfish have a significant impact on Pennsylvania's waterways, outcompeting native crayfish, consuming various aquatic life ...