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Microbes adapt to entirely new habitats—such as migrating from soil to freshwater lakes—by utilizing two divergent evolutionary pathways: expanding their genome to acquire new functional traits, or drastically reducing their genome to minimize resource dependency.
#EvolutionaryBiology #MicrobialEcology #Genomics #Limnology #Bioinformatics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/ebio04142601.html

How Soil Microbes Adapt to Life in Lakes

How do bacteria manage to conquer new environments? “This question remains largely unanswered

David Mayhood Apr 1

Data freaks, this is for you. Need long-term data on lakes? Well does IISD's Experimental Lakes Area have a deal for you!

https://www.iisd.org/ela/researchers/our-data/

#Lake #CanadianShield #LTER #Data #Limnology

Our Data | Biological, Environmental, Meteorological | IISD Experimental Lakes Area

Our data includes biological, environmental, and meteorological data to address important issues faced by global communities. Take a look at our metadata!

David Mayhood Feb 18

Well-deserved award and congratulations to a truly outstanding scientist.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/17/news/mohn-prize-canadian-john-smol?nih=EXNwKj-rVZTezkeaOTcIT182O02V3a4kWw813OkJmtE&utm_source=National+Observer&utm_campaign=721e15fd96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_14_02_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cacd0f141f-721e15fd96-258642501

#Limnology #Environment #Science #Arctic #Canada

Warren Currie 🦠🦐Feb 15

A satisfying outcome of being a scientist is when an organically developed collaborative project comes to fruition, and an early career researcher seizes an opportunity to publish new findings. This is the case for Anthony Arsenault who found that across the Great Lakes, ice stores different levels of dissolved organic matter, which can be very important to microbes during melt to jump-start spring production.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JG009367
#science #limnology

Planetary Ecologist Feb 6

Freshwater ecosystem (Ecosystems 🏞️)

Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems that include the biological communities inhabiting freshwater waterbodies such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs, bogs, and wetlands. They can be contrasted with marine ecosystems, which have a much higher salinity. Freshwater habitats can be classif...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_ecosystem

#FreshwaterEcosystem #Water #Limnology #Ecosystems #AquaticEcology #SystemsEcology

Freshwater ecosystem - Wikipedia

Scientific Frontline Jan 19

#Freshwater browning stunts the growth of specific #fish species and alters community composition by favoring distinct traits, ultimately shifting population dynamics in north-temperate #lakes
#Ecology #Environmental #Limnology #Ichthyology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/eco01192601.html

Freshwater browning threatens growth and populations of economically important fish

Browning is affecting more than just fish: it’s affecting the broader ecosystem

Rafael M.Jan 7

#Limnology #Limnologia

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-the-heartbeat-of-deep-lakes-at-crater-lake-its-slowing-down-20251114/

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down. | Quanta Magazine

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem.

Quanta Magazine

LeibnizIGB Jan 6

Michael Hupfer is the new president of the German Society for Limnology (DGL). In an interview, he talks about the importance of knowledge exchange between science and practice, current challenges facing water bodies, and his personal path into freshwater research. 👉 https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/michael-hupfer-new-president-dgl
#limnology #watermanagement