Lake Respomuso is a dammed lake of glacial origin at 2200 m altitude in the Central Pyrenees.
This study investigated the source of a number of trace elements (As, Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, …

… where X Ai and X Di are the normalized concentrations of first and last tetrad members, and
X Bi − X Ci is the normalized concentrations of the central elements. The formula compares …

Lithogenic trace element (TE) patterns of distribution, fate, and behavior in soils are influenced
by plants and microorganisms. Our controlled mesocosm experiments quantified how …

Predatory aquatic beetles are common colonizers of natural and managed aquatic environments.
While as important components of the aquatic food webs they are prone to accumulate …

Ecosystem-bedrock interactions power the biogeochemical cycles of Earth’s shallow crust,
supporting life, stimulating substrate transformation, and spurring evolutionary innovation. …

… DG Zaharescu, CI Burghelea and P·Hooda contributed equally to the conceptual development,
material analysis and manuscript preparation. V. Polyakov contributed the analysis and …

Weathering is the process by which a solid breaks up into its building blocks when in
thermodynamic disequilibrium with the surrounding environment. Weathering plays an important …

In low nutrient alpine lakes, the littoral zone is the most productive part of the ecosystem, and
it is a biodiversity hotspot. It is not entirely clear how the scale and physical heterogeneity of …

An ecosystem is generally sustained by a set of integrated physical elements forming a
functional landscape unit—ecotope, which supplies nutrients, microclimate, and exchanges …

Recently arsenic contamination and its environmental and human health problems have
been raising concerns worldwide. The occurrence of natural high levels of arsenic …