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The New Zealand government has been praised for heeding scientific advice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but when it comes environmental protections seems be negotiable. Freshwaters have decline decades, despite clear science on limits needed protect them. There are many examples of ‘shifting baselines’, where progressively weakened through agency regulatory capture and political expedie...

The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and the quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) are considered as the most competitive invaders in freshwaters of Europe and North America. Although shell characteristics exist to differentiate both species, phenotypic plasticity in the genus Dreissena does not always allow a clear identification. Therefore, the need to find an accurate identifica...

Following previous reports indicating a remarkable high diversity of sessile rotifers in Southeast Asian freshwaters, we report on an extensive study of the diversity of Collothecidae rotifers from fifteen freshwater habitats in Thailand. A total of 13 species, including two additional infraspecific variants, of Collothecidae are recorded, one of which is described as a new species of Collothec...

Abstract The large, thick beachrock of Arrigunaga beach (Bizkaia, Spain) is unusual among beachrocks because (a) Its location, at 43ºN latitude; (b) substrate that was cemented, largely consisting on smelter slag mixed with natural sediment; (c) timing and amount dumping sea, millions tons waste dumped in the short interval AD 1902–1966; (d) sudden cessation (AD 1966), followed by immediate exh...

Freshwater resources provide ecosystem services that support human prosperity and development. Future changes in climate, land-use, population could lead to detrimental impacts on freshwater quality quantity, threatening drinking water, irrigation energy production. To increase resilience there is the need better understand possible of future freshwaters. We use Scotland – its legislative agend...