Kilgour et al. study found road salt concentrations in streams as high as 11x BC’s acute guideline for chloride in freshwater during winter. These road salt contaminations coincide with spawning for local salmonids, risking developing embryos & their incubation

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Each winter, road salt is used as a de-icer and washes into freshwater streams.

Research from the Road Salt Project ( www.theroadsaltproject.com ) has shown that the levels of road salt found in streams can harm developing rainbow trout.

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New chapter by Ora E. Johannsson & Aleicia Holland on how anthropogenic activities modify the source, character and role of dissolved organic carbon in the black-water river, the Rio Negro, Amazonia.

Link: doi.org/10.1007/978-... in "The Future of Amazonian Aquatic Biota".

This air-breathing fish can take up CO2 via the gills and exhale it via the “lung”.

New publication by Chris Wood, Bernd Pelster & Adalberto Luis Val.

doi.org/10.1007/s003...

Please join us in welcoming UBC-Zoology’s newest Assistant Professor: Asher Leeks! @asherleeks.bsky.social

Today is Asher’s first day as an Assistant Professor of Evolution in the Department of Zoology and the @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca

Welcome Asher! 🙌🏽

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One way street: metals enter via carapace, leave via gills in crabs.

Paper by Anne Crémazy, Lygia S. Nogueira and Chris Wood

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...