While accounting for only 3% of the Earth's surface, lakes and ponds are vital habitats, and provide essential resources for a wide range of species, including humans. What is the status of these ...

Here and there, the white landscape featured hydrological formations like ice-lake blisters, saltwater bodies, briny pockets, and meltwater ponds ... possibility of any ecosystem lurking inside ...

lakes and ponds. It includes the community ecology of these ecosystems, as well as ecosystem processes, interactions with adjacent terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and conservation and restoration.