Freshwater Science (FWS) publishes articles that advance understanding and environmental stewardship of all types of inland aquatic ecosystems (lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs, subterranean, and estuaries) and ecosystems at the interface between aquatic and terrestrial habitats (wetlands, riparian areas, and floodplains).
SFS membership includes access to all current and past issues of Freshwater Science. Featured articles are available below, courtesy of University of Chicago Press and the Society for Freshwater Science.
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This month's featured article: To Model or Measure: Estimating gas exchange to measure metabolism in shallow, low-gradient stream habitats. Rachel L. Nifong, Jason M. Taylor, and Lindsey Yasarer. Freshwater Science 39(1): 70-85.
This month's featured article: Contaminants in linked aquatic–terrestrial ecosystems: Predicting effects of aquatic pollution on adult aquatic insects and terrestrial insectivores Johanna M. Kraus. Freshwater Science 38(4): 919-927.
This month's featured article: Joseph M. Culp, Jennifer Lento, R. Allen Curry, Eric Luiker, and Daryl Halliwell. Arctic biodiversity of stream macroinvertebrates declines in response to latitudinal change in the abiotic template. Freshwater Science 38(3): 465-479.
This month's featured article: Daniel C. Allen, Darin A. Kopp, Katie H. Costigan, Thibault Datry, Bernard Hugueny, Dale S. Turner, Gita S. Bodner, and Timothy J. Flood. Citizen scientists document long-term streamflow declines in intermittent rivers of the desert southwest, USA. Freshwater Science 38(2): 244-256.
This month's featured article: Katrin Schmidt, Richard G. Pearson, Ross A. Alford, and Robert Puschendorf. Tadpole species have variable roles in litter breakdown, sediment removal, and nutrient cycling in a tropical stream. Freshwater Science 38(1):103–112.
This month's featured article: Sweeny, B.W., D.H. Funk, A.A. Camp, D.B. Buchwalter, and J.K. Jackson. 2017. Why adult mayflies of Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) become smaller as temperature warms. Freshwater Science 37(1): 64-81.
This month's featured article: David M. Walters, Morgan A. Ford, Robert E. Zuellig. 2017. A digital reference collection for aquatic macroinvertebrates of North America. Freshwater Science 36(4): 693-697.
