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Freshwater ecosystems provide important services to human societies, such as water, food, regulation of hydrological extremes, pollutant attenuation, and carbon sequestration. As freshwater systems are under pressure from human activity and climate change, a more complete understanding of these systems is needed to respond to the environmental changes associated with these processes.
Here Prof Kirsten Seestern Christoffersen and Dr Ben Abbott, Guest Editors of
PLOS ONECall for Papers on Freshwater Ecosystems, share their thoughts on the present and future of freshwater science research.
What are the most interesting scientific advances in freshwater science recently?