SALAMANDER HOTEL: The N.C. Arboretum's new Willow Pond project features three distinct ponds, a boardwalk, a 20-person teaching shelter and interpretive signage, complete with a frog kiosk that plays ...

Small-scale water bodies with areas less than 0.1 km2, such as natural ponds, constitute the quantitative bulk of global inland water bodies, and are very susceptible to human disturbances and ...

Human waste accounts for a high percentage of nutrients consumed by some animals and plants in suburban ponds, new research indicates. Researchers found that residential, suburban land use is altering ...

Scientist Jon Chase once worked in a lab that set up small pond ecosystems for experiments on species interactions and food webs. "We would try to duplicate pond communities with a given experimental ...

Diving beetles (Dytiscidae) maintain the balance of pond ecosystems. They feed on other aquatic organisms, such as mosquito larvae, and form part of the diet of larger animals, including fish, ...

Across Britain, ponds are quietly vanishing. Reviving them is one of the simplest ways to boost biodiversity and climate ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Though they reside in a populated city, the ...

Despite the ubiquity of parasites and pathogens in all ecosystems, our understanding of their significance in mediating predator-prey interactions, primary production, energy flow and nutrient cycling ...

Increasingly severe and numerous wildfires are changing the face of land across the globe, but new research by UC San Diego and others reveals that aquatic ecosystems are also being transformed, the ...

Nestled in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila is the Cuatro Ciénegas basin, a rare oasis in the Chihuahuan desert that offers a richly diverse ecosystem. Beneath the crystalline blue-green water ...

Arkansas landowners may consider installing a recreational pond on their property a worthwhile investment, said Scott Jones, small impoundment Extension specialist at the University of Arkansas at ...