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Special Issue: Emerging Freshwater Diseases

It has become increasingly clear that diseases are an important and dynamic part of ecosystems, affecting wild populations, humans and domesticated species. Although diseases are a normal part of ecosystems, new diseases that emerge as a result of human movement of disease organisms or their vectors, evolution of disease organisms, climate change or other alterations to habitats or other causes can disrupt ecosystems, endanger populations and cause economic losses.

Freshwater ecosystems may be especially prone to emerging diseases because they are so heavily disrupted and so heavily invaded by non-native species, but little attention has been paid to emerging diseases in fresh waters. This Special Issue fills that gap by providing a modern overview of disease emergence in fresh waters. Read more...

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“Insights from long-term studies in the Windermere catchment: external stressors, internal interactions and the structure and function of lake ecosystems”
Guest Editors: Stephen Maberly and Alex Elliott

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Moving on up: can results from simple aquatic mesocosm experiments be applied across broad spatial scales?
Amanda C. Spivak, Michael J. Vanni, Elizabeth M. Mette
Volume 56, Issue 2, pages 279–291, February 2011
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