Ensuring water purity: Mitigating environmental risks and safeguarding human health
April 2025
Water is an indispensable resource for sustaining life, ecosystems, and economic productivity. However, increasing contamination and pollution pose severe threats to global water purity, with significant...
Research advances in the structure, function, and regulation of the gill barrier in teleost fish
April 2023
The gill is an important organ in fish that is involved in various physiological functions, including respiration, filter-feeding, ammonia nitrogen excretion, and osmoregulation. The physiological functions...
The dual nature of water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes): Environmental threats and sustainable solutions
July 2025
The invasive aquatic plant Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) presents significant ecological and economic challenges worldwide due to its rapid proliferation and dominance in freshwater ecosystems....
Macroinvertebrate responses to stream water quality and the proposed biological monitoring working party index for the Philippines
Available online 31 July 2025
Water quality is a key driver of aquatic ecosystem health and strongly influences macroinvertebrate assemblages. In the Philippines, the relationship between macroinvertebrates and water quality remains...
Towards a low-carbon footprint: Current status and prospects for aquaculture
October 2024
Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing agricultural sectors globally and is becoming increasingly important for producing sustainable and healthy diets with relatively low climate impacts. In comparison...
Biologging as a potential platform for resolving ocean environmental issues and threats: Towards the development of the Internet of Animals
October 2025
Biologging is a method that utilizes animal-borne devices to study the behavioural ecology, physiology, and surrounding environment of animals. This is the Lagrangian observation method, which assigns...
Advancing aquaculture breeding through genomic selection: models, tools, and challenges
Available online 18 September 2025
Genomic selection (GS) is a powerful breeding tool that utilizes statistical models to predict breeding values for candidate populations by leveraging genotype–phenotype relationships. In contrast to...
An overview of research efforts to understand the effects of underwater sound on cetaceans
April 2023
Cetaceans are aquatic mammals living in an environment that is more suited for hearing than vision. As such, their sensory systems largely utilize acoustic cues for navigation, communication, foraging,...
Methodology for fish biodiversity monitoring with environmental DNA metabarcoding: The primers, databases and bioinformatic pipelines
February 2022
Environmental DNA (eDNA) originates from cellular material shed by organisms into aquatic or terrestrial environments and can be sampled and monitored using metabarcoding technology, which is revolutionizing...
The role of ecohydraulics in addressing the freshwater biodiversity crisis
Available online 5 September 2025
Ecohydraulics is a scholarly discipline and community of practice that represents the intersection of ecology and hydraulics/fluid dynamics. Although understanding the intersection of ecology and hydraulics...
Progress in research on fish sex determining genes
February 2022
Research on fish sex determining genes and their mode of action is not only important for elucidating the mechanisms of vertebrate sex determination, but also for fish monosex control breeding. This...
Non-native aquatic species in the Dongting Lake basin, China
October 2025
Dongting Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in China, supports high biodiversity and many endemic or endangered species, such as finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), Baer's pochard (Aythya...
Glacial microbial-environmental interactions on the Tibetan Plateau: A review
October 2025
The glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are important climate regulators and recharge sources for many rivers and lakes, which are of great ecological value. However, actions to protect glacier-associated...
Seasonal variation and driving factors of beta diversity of macroinvertebrate assemblages in subtropical Chinese high-mountain streams
October 2025
High-mountain stream ecosystems are recognized as ideal arenas for natural experiments and for ecological monitoring and assessment research, owing to their sensitivity to climate gradients and human-mediated...
A One-Health approach to non-native species, aquaculture, and food security
April 2024
One-Health is an umbrella term that integrates the health of the environment, humans and non-human animals. This approach is applied here to elucidate the impact of non-native invasive species on aquaculture...
Riverine microplastics and their interaction with freshwater fish
October 2023
This paper outlines the nature of microplastic contamination in rivers and the risks to freshwater fishes. We discuss how input sources influence the concentration and composition of microplastics and...
Recent insights into aquatic viruses: Emerging and reemerging pathogens, molecular features, biological effects, and novel investigative approaches
November 2022
Aquatic viruses are naturally present in the aquatic environment and the number of viruses is staggering. Various multicellular organisms in aquatic ecosystems may be infected, cross-species transmitted,...
Evaluation of different primers of the 18S rRNA gene to profile amoeba communities in environmental samples
August 2022
Amoeboid protists, an assemblage of organisms belonging to different phylogenetic lineages, have drawn increasing attention due to their crucial ecological roles in various environments and their potential...
Gene flow enhances genetic diversity and local adaptation in Pyropia yezoensis populations
Available online 18 April 2025
Pyropia yezoensis, a vital intertidal seaweed, plays a crucial role in the preservation of marine biodiversity. In recent years, the rapid expansion of its cultivation has raised concerns regarding...
Distribution and abundance of large pelagic predatory bony fishes in the northwestern Pacific over a half-century
October 2025
Large pelagic predatory fishes play an important role in marine ecosystems, occupying the highest position in food webs and accumulating energy and organic matter produced by aquatic organisms of lower...
Genome-wide association study reveals the role of Lox4 in shell morphology of Mulinia lateralis
Available online 3 October 2025
The shell, a type of biological exoskeleton, is a critical feature of bivalves, serving key functions including protection, locomotion, and structural support. Although bivalve shell morphology exhibits...
Eggshell waste as a promising adsorbent for phosphorus recovery from wastewater: A review
January 2025
Phosphorus is a plant nutrient that is the main driving force of eutrophication, a serious type of water pollution. Various techniques and materials have been used to identify cost-effective, environmentally...
Use of aquatic organisms as flagship species in selecting priority areas for conservation
Available online 31 October 2025
Flagship species are widely used to garner support for conservation, but the selection of these taxa often overlooks ecological, social, and cultural criteria, which may limit the effectiveness of conservation...
Plastic occurrence, sources, and impacts in Antarctic environment and biota
May 2022
Several studies have documented that plastic pollution is affecting one of the most remote and pristine regions of our planet, Antarctica. Plastics of different size and polymeric composition have been...
Freshwater snail and shrimp differentially affect water turbidity and benthic primary producers
February 2022
Benthic macroinvertebrates play key roles in shallow aquatic ecosystems and can contribute substantially to aquatic food webs. However, how macroinvertebrates with different behaviors (for example,...