With the high demand for freshwater and its vital role in sustaining multiple ecosystem services, it is important to quantify and evaluate freshwater provisioning for various services (e.g., drinking, fisheries, recreation). Research on ecosystem services has increased recently, though relatively fewer studies apply a data driven approach to quantify freshwater provisioning for different ecosys...

Drought is one of the most widespread extreme climate events with a potential to alter freshwater availability and related ecosystem services. Given the interconnectedness between freshwater availability and many ecosystem services, including food provisioning, it is important to evaluate the drought implications on freshwater provisioning and food provisioning services. Studies about drought i...

a Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan 609–735, South Korea b Institute of Environmental Technology & Industry, Pusan National University, Busan 609–735, South Korea c Department of Environmental Education, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540-742, South Korea d Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin, Gyeong...

Freshwater and marine-spawned fishes were sampled from the Baakens River, a small urban river that runs through the city of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Using fyke nets, 8 sites were sampled along the river course over a 4-month period (January – April 2014). Catches were comprised of indigenous freshwater, marine migrant and alien fishes. Marine migrant fishes, including...

This paper describes the priority parameters for water quality monitoring currently used by a wide range of government, educational and private agencies in a variety of aquatic systems. Water quality monitoring has become a global priority to ensure that the economic, ecological and recreational value of natural and man-made waterways are sustained. Priority parameters will differ depending on ...

Bacterial communities from freshwater lakes are shaped by various factors such as nutrients, pH value, temperature, etc. Their compositions and relative abundances would undergo changes to adapt the changing environments, and in turn could affect the environments of freshwater lakes. Analyses of the freshwater lake's bacterial communities under different environments would be of pivotal importa...

Potential conflicts arising from competing demands of complex water resource systems require a holistic approach to address the tradeoff landscape inherent in freshwater ecosystem service evaluation. The Water Evaluation and Planning model version 21 (WEAP21) is a comprehensive integrated water resource management (IWRM) model that can aid in the evaluation of ecosystem services by integrating ...