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A backbone of bugs: The tiny drivers of freshwater ecology

A man kneels next to green water.

Aquatic entomologist and River Basin Center affiliate Darold Batzer and other researchers from the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences have spent their careers discovering how factors like climate change, pollution and urbanization impact insects. Uncovering changes to the well-being of insects provides clues to the drivers behind changes in entire ecosystems.

Insects through the ages

RBC graduate student Denzell Cross, and his advisor Dr. Krista Capps, are studying how time and changing environments have affected the aquatic ecosystems that inhabit those streams. Cross will incorporate research from the 1970s conducted in the same locations to examine how insect communities in urban streams have changed.