Biodiversity improves water quality in streams through a division of labour
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 07:02
in Earth & Climate
Biologically diverse streams are better at cleaning up pollutants than less rich waterways, and Bradley Cardinale, an assistant professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment, says he has uncovered the long-sought mechanism that explains why this is so. Cardinale reports his findings in the 7 April edition of the journal Nature...