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ClearA global hydrology research agenda fit for the 2030s
A group of global hydrology researchers outlines priority research questions for freshwater science through 2030, identifying key knowledge gaps around water quality, ecosystem health, and emerging contaminants including microplastics. The agenda calls for more integrated monitoring and modeling to address growing pressures on freshwater resources worldwide.
Present and future of aquatic sciences: The perspective of AIOL scientific community for a priority roadmap over the next five years
Italian aquatic scientists outlined their research priorities for the next five years, emphasizing that aquatic ecosystems face growing challenges from human activities including plastic pollution, climate change, and overuse of water resources. The roadmap calls for better integration of science into water governance and public policy.
Maximizing Benefits to Nature and Society in Techno-Ecological Innovation for Water
This review advocates for nature-based solutions in water management, arguing that integrating ecological approaches alongside conventional engineering can maximize benefits for both biodiversity and human water security.
Hitting the sweet spot of complexity: Reasons why the development of new custom-tailored models is still warranted and should be encouraged in aquatic sciences
This paper discusses why process-based computer models of freshwater ecosystems need to strike a balance between complexity and usability. Such models are increasingly used to study how pollutants like microplastics move and accumulate in aquatic environments.
Time for decisive actions to protect freshwater ecosystems from global changes
This review called for decisive actions to protect freshwater ecosystems from global changes including climate change, habitat modification, pollution, and invasive species, emphasizing the critical services these ecosystems provide to humans.
Standardized Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Biological Index Method for Ecosystem Health Evaluation in Large Waters of Aquaculture Type
Researchers developed a standardized fuzzy comprehensive evaluation biological index method for assessing ecosystem health in large aquaculture-type water bodies, providing a more nuanced tool for monitoring river and lake ecosystem conditions under increasing human environmental pressure.
Water Quality Modelling, Monitoring, and Mitigation
This special issue review examines advances in water quality modelling, monitoring, and mitigation approaches, noting that while models and indices have become central tools for water resource management, site-specific limitations and high uncertainty in predictions remain key challenges for reliably assessing freshwater body health.
Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century
This review examines how multiple environmental stressors including pollution, climate change, invasive species, and nanoparticles are simultaneously degrading freshwater ecosystems worldwide. The combined effects of these stressors, including microplastic contamination, threaten both the ecological health of freshwater systems and the clean water supplies that human civilization depends on.
Redefining Water Treatment: Identification of WWTPs as an Earth System Problem and Circular Economic Eco-Bog System to Challenge It
This paper argues that wastewater treatment plants should be reconceptualized as Earth system problems rather than isolated infrastructure, because the daily discharge of microplastics and other contaminants creates complex, poorly understood ecological effects at a planetary scale.
Aquatic ecosystem indices, linking ecosystem health to human health risks
Researchers reviewed indicators used to assess aquatic ecosystem health and found that most existing tools don't adequately capture the risks that degraded water ecosystems pose to human health and well-being. They propose a new set of combined indicators — covering chemical contaminants, pathogens, and biological markers — to better link ecosystem health monitoring to human health outcomes.
Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss: An Emergency Recovery Plan
This conservation paper synthesizes the state of global freshwater biodiversity loss — with freshwater vertebrate populations declining twice as steeply as terrestrial or marine populations — and proposes an emergency recovery plan including stronger environmental flows, pollution control, and invasive species management.
Small Water Bodies in Great Britain and Ireland: Ecosystem function, human-generated degradation, and options for restorative action
Researchers reviewed the ecological roles and human-driven degradation of small headwater streams and ponds in Great Britain and Ireland, finding that agricultural drainage, nutrient runoff, pesticides, and invasive species have severely disrupted these systems, and recommending integrated restoration combining channel, riparian, and catchment-level management.
Forrageando no Antropoceno: explorando as dinâmicas de reservatórios e poluição plástica em organismos de água doce.
This systematic review examines how reservoir construction and plastic pollution affect freshwater organisms. It highlights that microplastic contamination in freshwater ecosystems threatens the organisms that make up food chains, with potential consequences for the safety of drinking water and freshwater food sources.
Future-proofing the emergency recovery plan for freshwater biodiversity
This paper outlines a global emergency recovery plan for freshwater biodiversity, which is declining faster than in any other ecosystem type. The plan identifies six priority actions including improving water quality, restoring habitats, and controlling invasive species. Reducing pollution, including microplastics and other contaminants entering freshwater systems, is a key component of the proposed recovery strategy.
Watershed Ecohydrological Processes in a Changing Environment: Opportunities and Challenges
This review examines watershed ecohydrological processes under changing environmental conditions, including the impacts of climate change and human activities on water quantity and quality. Researchers propose a new integrated framework for watershed management that incorporates socioeconomic activities alongside ecological and hydrological monitoring. The study identifies emerging environmental concerns, including microplastic pollution, as factors that need to be incorporated into modern watershed management strategies.
Integrated Approaches to Water Quality Assessment and Treatment: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review integrates physical, chemical, and biological water quality parameters, examines major pollution sources including emerging contaminants like microplastics, and surveys advances in real-time IoT-enabled monitoring and integrated treatment approaches.
A Framework to Identify Priority Areas for Restoration: Integrating Human Demand and Ecosystem Services in Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone, China
Researchers developed a framework integrating human demand and ecosystem services to identify priority restoration areas in the Dongting Lake Eco-Economic Zone, enabling more targeted and beneficial ecological restoration planning.
Knowledge gaps and opportunities in water-quality drivers of aquatic ecosystem health
This report identifies major gaps in scientific understanding of how water quality factors affect the health of aquatic ecosystems. Researchers highlight challenges including nutrient cycling, emerging contaminants like microplastics and pharmaceuticals, and the need for better monitoring tools. The study proposes new research approaches to improve predictions about how water quality changes impact freshwater and coastal environments.
Microplastics as contaminants in freshwater environments: A multidisciplinary review
This multidisciplinary review covers microplastic sources, abundance, composition, transport, and biological effects in freshwater systems globally, arguing that freshwater environments are both major conduits and sinks for microplastic pollution.
Optimal Allocation of Water Resources Considering Virtual Water Trade: A Case Study of the Yellow River
This study optimizes water resource allocation across the Yellow River basin in China by integrating both physical and virtual water flows. The study is focused on water resource management and is not directly related to microplastic research.
Progress and opportunities in advancing near-term forecasting of freshwater quality
This review examines the current state and future opportunities for near-term freshwater quality forecasting, defined as sub-daily to decadal predictions with quantified uncertainty, which are increasingly needed as climate and land-use change destabilize historical baselines used by water quality managers. The authors identify key gaps in forecasting infrastructure and highlight priorities for advancing predictive models for risks such as harmful algal blooms and flash floods.
Towards more ecologically relevant investigations of the impacts of microplastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems
This review argues that microplastic research in freshwater ecosystems lacks ecological realism, calling for studies that account for realistic exposure concentrations, particle mixtures, and multi-species interactions rather than single-species laboratory tests.
Caribbean small island developing states must incorporate water quality and quantity in adaptive management of the water-energy-food nexus
This paper is not about microplastics; it addresses water-energy-food nexus management and sustainable water resources in Caribbean Small Island Developing States.
Editorial: Freshwater science in the tropical anthropocene
This editorial introduces a research collection on freshwater science in the tropical Anthropocene, highlighting that tropical freshwater ecosystems face severe threats from urbanization, pollution, and land-use change while remaining understudied compared to temperate systems. The collection emphasizes the need for bioassessment tools, ecosystem restoration approaches, and biodiversity conservation strategies tailored to tropical freshwater environments.