Two reproductively isolated demes of brown trout coexist in a small Swedish mountain lake, Lake Bunnersjörna. We electrophoretically examined 102 specimens from that lake for 27 enzymes encoded by 54 loci. The two demes are fixed for different alleles at a lactate dehydrogenase locus (LDH-1); statistically significant allele frequency differences at five other loci further support the complete ...

Despite the large and growing literature on microplastics in the ocean, little information exists on microplastics in freshwater systems. This study is the first to evaluate the abundance, distribution, and composition of pelagic microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake. We quantified pelagic microplastics and shoreline anthropogenic debris in Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia. With an ave...

BACKGROUND Rhodiola crenulata (R. crenulata) is widely used to prevent acute mountain sickness in the Himalayan areas and in Tibet, but no scientific studies have previously examined its effectiveness. We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study to investigate its efficacy in acute mountain sickness prevention. METHODS Healthy adult volunteers were randomized t...

Long-term water temperature records are necessary for better understanding climate change impacts on freshwaters. We reconstruct summer water temperatures from three climatically sensitive mountain lakes in Austria using paleolimnological methods aiming to examine long-term thermal dynamics and lakes' responses to regional climate variability since the Little Ice Age. Our results indicate diver...

Cyanobacteria were sampled along two vertical and two horizontal transects in the littoral of Devoke Water, English Lake District. Profiles of cyanobacterium diversity and abundance showed that both attained a maximum close to the water line, but declined rapidly 20-40 cm above it. The distribution of individual species with height together with species and site ordinations showed that several ...

During the past several years we have examined, for helminth parasites, more than 700 specimens of wild birds, which represent 14 orders, 40 families, and 134 species. Although the avian hosts came from various localities throughout the southeastern section of the United States, the greater concentrations were collected from State College, Miss. ; Athens and Augusta, Ga. ; Highlands, N. C. ; Re...