As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted method of measuring the health of rivers and streams. As I also learned during that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In choosing sites to target for protection, conservationists typically look for healthy ecosystems with high biodiversity — places with a great ...

With an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste escaping to our oceans each year, plastic pollution adversely affects the environment, climate, and even our health. Many plastic products ...

Busy ants make the best bioindicators, says a young Australian scientist who has won an award for his research into ants and land management. “The Aussie mining industry has been using ants for the ...

We’ve become accustomed to using mechanical devices to evaluate our environments. However, there are natural alternatives to strictly instrumental measures of environmental health. Many organisms are ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 43, No. 2 (MARCH 2020), pp. 240-255 (16 pages) Together, macroalgal tissue biochemical nitrogen indices (N-indices) and macroalgal abundance can be used as bioindicators of ...

With an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste escaping to our oceans each year, plastic pollution adversely affects the environment, climate, and even our health. Many plastic products ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In recent years, researches about the defense strategies induced by cadmium stress have greatly increased, invading several fields of ...

Sponges are filter feeders that live on particulate matter -- but they can also ingest microscopic fragments of plastics and other pollutants of anthropogenic origin. They can therefore serve as ...