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Uncharted waters: the rise of human-made aquatic environments in the age of the “Anthropocene”

Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Lavoie, I. (2018) · Anthropocene · doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2018.07.003 · Cited by 38 · see citing works

Assessing the Yield and Load of Contaminants with Stream Order: Would Policy Requiring Livestock to Be Fenced Out of High‐Order Streams Decrease Catchment Contaminant Loads?

McDowell, R. W., Cox, N., & Snelder, T. H. (2017) · Journal of Environmental Quality · doi:10.2134/jeq2017.05.0212 · Cited by 31 · see citing works

Expanding wetland hydroperiod data via satellite imagery for ecological applications

Kissel, A. M., Halabisky, M., Scherer, R. D., Ryan, M. E., & Hansen, E. C. (2020) · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · doi:10.1002/fee.2233 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

Lines in the landscape

Clifford, C., Bieroza, M., Clarke, S. J., Pickard, A., Stratigos, M. J., Hill, M. J., Raheem, N., Tatariw, C., Wood, P. J., Arismendi, I., et al. (2025) · Communications Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02699-y · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Regional macrophyte diversity is shaped by accumulative effects across waterbody types in southern China

Sun, J., Doeser, A., Cao, Y., Lv, X., Li, W., & Liu, F. (2022) · Aquatic Botany · doi:10.1016/j.aquabot.2021.103468 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Freshwater biodiversity: a review of local and global threats

Gatti, R. C. (2016) · International Journal of Environmental Studies · doi:10.1080/00207233.2016.1204133 · Cited by 96 · see citing works

Determination of hazardous concentrations of 2,4-dinitrophenol in freshwater ecosystems based on species sensitivity distributions

Kwak, J. I., Kim, S. W., Kim, L., et al. (2020) · Aquatic Toxicology · doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105646 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Is freshwater biodiversity really that special?Preprint

Bridgewater, P. B. (2022) · doi:10.22541/au.164856435.53770186/v1 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Bacterial eutrophic index for potential water quality evaluation of a freshwater ecosystem

Ji, B., Liang, J., & Chen, R. (2020) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · doi:10.1007/s11356-020-09585-4 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Issues of the Study of Detritus in Aquatic Systems

Sadchikov, А. P., & Ostroumov, S. A. (2017) · Russian Journal of General Chemistry · doi:10.1134/s1070363217130199 · Cited by 8 · see citing works