The Role of Freshwater Crabs in Neotropical Streams
Freshwater crabs play an important role in the breakdown of nutrients from natural materials that fall into streams, but few studies have looked into exactly how their relationships with other detritivores and the leaf litter itself impacts ecosystems. River Basin Center graduate student Carol Yang shed light on these relationships in neotropical streams in two […]
The Ethics of Water Legislation in Brazil
University of Georgia researchers are shedding light on the differing values of populations in Northeastern Brazil to inform future water management decisions.
A Wild Gopher Frog Chase
Dr. Stacey Lance is working to identify suitable habitat for Carolina gopher frogs, a species identified as endangered in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, and to survey existing populations on private lands.
Shining A Spotlight On Septic
Athens-Clarke County and RBC Researchers take interdisciplinary approach to septic
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.