Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A Finnish-Dutch research group has examined the terrestrial ...

Hypersaline lake ecosystems are unique aquatic environments characterised by salt concentrations well above that of typical seawater. Such extreme conditions foster specialised biota, including ...

A food web can be seen as a collection of pathways distributing energy to the ecological community. Because of thermodynamical as well as ecological constraints, some pathways are more important than ...