I created this subreddit as an outreach project while I was a grad student. I am not really a social media savvy person, and spend very little time on Reddit. If you are a graduate student or other professional aquatic ecologist and you are interested in helping moderate this community, please send me a mod mail detailing your qualifications.

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Would anyone happen to have a copy of the paper "Investigations on the organic drift in North Swedish streams" by Muller, 1954? I feel like it would be useful to my research, but I cannot find it to read it. Thanks!

I am a free-diver from Canada, and I dive in a nearby lake, with one of my friend. In that lake, there is a lot of tires, old ones. We recently had the idea to go to that lake with a third friend, and bring them out of the said lake, but before doing so, I verified online if tires are actually harmful to the environment. I’ve been surprised to discover that they don’t seem to be as harmful as i thought, according to some websites, and some other sources tend to believe that the heavy metals that they contain can be really dangerous for the ecosystems.

I’ve never seen any fishes inside those tires, nor around them, so they are probably not used as “structures” for the fishes of said lake.

So before doing anything, let me ask, should tires be removed from lakes?

I'm an undergrad in Texas working on my first aquatic ecology project. A new chicken processing plant is being built that apparently has a permit to dump wastewater directly in the Sabine River, but I can't find the actual permit. I've tried searching the TCEQ website but can't find any actual documents. Any help is welcome! And I apologise if this is off topic or not the kind of thing to post- I'm new here and still figuring things out.

This research field is so important in understanding how pharmaceuticals from waste water impact the ecosystem: A diverse suite of pharmaceuticals contaminates stream and riparian food webs

As an aquatic contaminant researcher, I think it is so important that we understand the impact all types of contaminants have on the ecosystem. If these compounds have an impact on humans, they likely have an impact on other organisms.

Do you guys have any books/textbooks/resources online to learn Aquatic Ecology?

Thanks in Advance!

First time poster here. Mom of a 9 yo Lorax who really wants to answer her girls questions about how to fix the planet. On the weekends, she and I love to catch and release crawfish in our local creek sometimes. They're all so different looking! So many colors! And their quick nature combined with the fact that our gross old tupperware is being put to some use, it's just kind of a thrill for us. We give them names and make up stories about their personal lives and observe them in their habitat before saying farewell. Anyway.

Yesterday, we head to our usual neighborhood park which is an urban haven in a historical neighborhood. We go to an overgrown section of creek we've never really played in and I find a car battery in the middle of the creek, so I pluck it out and drag it outside the park. We venture on to our favorite spots and see no crawfish. We move on and find at least a dozen crawfish in a deep creek pool, except they aren't moving, and they're upside down? They're not swimming away? A dozen dead crawfish at minimum.

To my 9 yo, it's a humane mystery we must chase. We move further down the creek, and find dozens and dozens more crawfish dead. She picks some up and coos them back alive somehow, but it seems like whatever ailed them was in that water because if we replaced them in the creek, they would start going belly-up again. We move a few crawfish to a grassy hole in the ground we filled with water from a freshwater faucet and they immediately bounced back like spiny Lazaruses.

In our neighborhood, a lot of work is being done to our water pipes and such, and a ton of litter spangles the rocks, probably because it's spring and beautiful again.

My question is, is this a seasonal behavior of crawfish, a consequence of a car battery being tossed in their creek, water line work, or a million different possible variables of which there are too many to choose?