Here’s a new wrinkle to the aquatic food web – the first documented record of fish preying on birds in flight. Meet the African tigerfish and one unlucky barn swallow. We discovered the amazing film on the website of the journal, Nature. But it stems from a new article in the Journal of Fish Biology …
The latest issue of Madison’s Capital Times has an excellent cover story exploring a new effort to reduce the amount of phosphorus that ends up in Madison lakes. As the article points out – each pound of phosphorus that enters our waterways can fertilize the growth of up to 500 pounds of blue-green algae. Yahara …
We hope you had an excellent holiday season surrounded by friends, family and good cheer. We’ve got lots planned for 2014 here on the Center for Limnology blog, including a new series of videos called “Limnology 101,” updates on all things aquatic from our grad students, and new music from our cover band, Phantom Midge! …