SIL | International Society of Limnology

🌎🚰 Pizarro et al. review pesticide use in Latin America & the Caribbean: the region with the world’s highest application rates, yet limited freshwater monitoring. Gaps in ecological risk assessment remain.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2044...
#Freshwater #Pesticides #LatinAmerica #Caribbean #EnvironmentalRisk

#congnitivejustice #interculturaldialogue #indigenouspeople #knowledgecoproduction

(2) TAPARA’s structure and dynamism provides an adaptable yet sturdy vessel to navigate through the complex network of interactions among people, communities, institutions, and cultures.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💡INSIGHTS:
(1) TAPARA makes significant contributions to existing methodologies as a decolonial, intercultural, and transdisciplinary way of knowledge co-production

📃This paper presents a novel and decolonial methodology, TAPARA: Transdisciplinary Adaptive Participatory Action Research, for knowledge co-production with Indigenous People

Transdisciplinary adaptive participatory action research approach (TAPARA) for
knowledge co-production with Indigenous Peoples
By Ana Felicien, Pedro Borges-Landáez,Noemí Chacón, Mariela López-Gasca, Hernán González, & TAPARA Indigenous Core Research Team

Join us in congratulating Benjamin Misteli
@benjaminmisteli.bsky.social
on being elected as SIL’s Early Career Representative – Global Outreach! 🌍✨

Based at WasserCluster Lunz, Austria, he brings fresh perspectives to strengthen SIL’s global outreach. 💧

Join us in congratulating Sylvia Bonilla, winner of the Kilham Memorial Lecture Award! 🎉

To be delivered during the joint ASLO–SIL 2026 Congress in Montreal.
We look forward to celebrating her contributions to limnology and cyanobacteria research with the SIL community! 💧

Join us in congratulating Claudia Costa Bonecker, winner of the Baldi Memorial Lecture Award! 🎉

She will be honored at the ASLO–SIL 2026 Congress in Montreal.
We look forward to celebrating her achievements in theoretical limnology with the SIL community! 💧

⏳ Don’t miss your chance! Nominations for SIL’s Naumann–Thienemann Medal (2025 & 2026 recipients) close October 15, 2025.

Recognize a limnologist whose work has made a lasting impact.

📩 Send nominations to gonsagra@gmail.com

🔗 Learn more: limnology.org/funding/naum...

🌎 Article of the Day
Did you know Costa Rica’s lakes, from coastal lagoons to volcanic craters and glacial tarns, harbor unique chemical and biological fingerprints?

🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1080/2044...

#TropicalLakes #CostaRica #Limnology #AquaticEcology #Biogeochemistry #StableIsotopes #Plankton

(3) policymakers must initiate efforts to integrate Indigenous opinions, experiences, and knowledge into climate change-related policy

(2) Local institutions are playing influential roles in ensuring that fishers communities are ready to face the impacts of climate variability.

💡INSIGHTS:
(1) Strong cohesiveness and cooperation among the Indigenous allow them to face the impact climate change.

Article of the Day:
📃This synthesis presents a global systematic literature review on how Indigenous fishers adapt to the impact of climate change

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#adaptation #climatechange #indigenousfishers #systematicliteraturereview

Article of the Day:
The Galapagos’ inland lakes and lagoons are among the least studied yet most vulnerable ecosystems.
A new bibliometric analysis reveals fragmented research and urgent knowledge gaps on biodiversity, water quality, and conservation.
Full article www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

We are proud to announce James Cotner as SIL’s newly elected Vice President – Global Outreach.
From the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, USA, James brings outstanding expertise and leadership to support SIL’s mission and expand our global community. 🌿🌊

📃This paper explores the various local knowledge-based climate change adaptation strategies used by the vhaVenda and baTonga communities (Limpopo and Zambezi river basins, Southern Africa), helps them to cope with periods of water scarcity and persistent drought events.

Local knowledge of climate change adaptation strategies from the vhaVenda and baTonga communities living in the Limpopo and Zambezi River Basins, Southern Africa

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(2) Coordinated efforts of Indigenous peoples, nongovernmental agencies, and nonprofit foundations supported by the knowledge provided by Mexican scientists help to safeguard water resources in areas where Indigenous peoples have water rights.

💡INSIGHTS:
(1) Central Mexico lakes on which Indigenous people depend on face numerous environmental pressures, including pollution, extensive water withdrawal and climate change.

📃This paper present how pre-Hispanic lacustrine Indigenous’ cultural knowledge and traditions persist in some location of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, thereby playing a key role in safeguarding water resources.

Culture, traditions, and natural resources of Mexican lakes under the influence of anthropogenic pressures and climate change
By Javier Alcocer & Elva Escobar

Access to the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opening plenary of Mark Gessner at #DGL2025, the annual German limnology conference, of DGL and @sil-limnology.bsky.social Germany, this year in Frankfurt

📰 ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

💡 Study reveals how pristine vs. impacted lakes in Chiapas differ: clear, nutrient-poor vs. turbid, nutrient-rich. Protecting the Lagunas de Montebello is vital to safeguard biodiversity and water quality.

Link to access the article: www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../20...

💧Wetzel videos of the week:

Global Water Cycle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAP...

Heat, Layers and Mixing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLR...

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Article of the week:

Venezuelan rivers harbor extraordinary biodiversity across plants, fish, invertebrates, and microbes, but research remains largely taxonomic, with urgent need for integrative ecological studies.

Access to the article: doi.org/10.1080/2044...

💡INSIGHTS The high diversity of the native forest in Misiones and the climatic conditions, would allow a relatively rapid ecological restoration if measures are taken. Fundamental to this process is the recognition of the knowledge and capacities of the Guaraní communities for environmental recover.

💡INSIGHTS (1) The forest ecosystems implanted in Guaraní territories have a significant impact on the culture, traditional landscape, and biotic and abiotic resources on which they depend.

📃This paper summarizes the main impacts of the implementation of pine monocultures in Guaraní territories and communities.