The ecosystem implications of road salt as a pollutant of freshwaters

Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization

(2022) William D. Hintz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world

(2022) David Cunillera-Montcusí et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community

(2022) Louis Astorg et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments

(2022) Marie‐Pier Hébert et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Acute Toxicity of Major Geochemical Ions to Fathead Minnows ( Pimephales promelas ). Part A: Observed Relationships for Individual Salts and Salt Mixtures

(2022) Russell J. Erickson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Recognizing salinity threats in the climate crisis

(2022) Carol Eunmi L E E et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Activity, boldness and schooling in freshwater fish are affected by river salinization

(2022) Tamara Leite et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Road Salt versus Urban Snow Effects on Lake Microbial Communities

(2022) Isabelle Fournier et al.   Microorganisms

Freshwater salinization syndrome alters retention and release of chemical cocktails along flowpaths: From stormwater management to urban streams

(2022) Sujay S. Kaushal et al.   Freshwater Science

Increasing salinization of freshwater limits invasiveness of a live-bearing fish: Insights from behavioral and life-history traits

(2022) Linjun Zhou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance

(2022) Shelley E. Arnott et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities

(2022) Alexandra McClymont et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks

(2021) Sujay S. Kaushal et al.   Biogeochemistry

Dietary lipid quality mediates salt tolerance of a freshwater keystone herbivore

(2021) Jana Isanta-Navarro et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects of chloride and nutrients on freshwater plankton communities

(2021) Danielle A. Greco et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Seawater intrusion: an appraisal of taxa at most risk and safe salinity levels

(2021) Cátia Venâncio et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Road salts, human safety, and the rising salinity of our fresh waters

(2021) William D Hintz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The effects of road salt on freshwater ecosystems and solutions for mitigating chloride pollution - A review

(2021) Sebastian Szklarek et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Impact of salinization on lake stratification and spring mixing

(2021) Robert Ladwig et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Lakes at Risk of Chloride Contamination

(2020) Hilary A. Dugan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Community composition modifies direct and indirect effects of pesticides in freshwater food webs

(2020) Qinghua Zhao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Road Salt Impacts Freshwater Zooplankton at Concentrations below Current Water Quality Guidelines

(2020) Shelley E. Arnott et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mixing, stratification, and plankton under lake‐ice during winter in a large lake: Implications for spring dissolved oxygen levels

(2020) Bernard Yang et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate and food web effects on the spring clear‐water phase in two north‐temperate eutrophic lakes

(2020) Shin‐Ichiro S. Matsuzaki et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A review of the species, community, and ecosystem impacts of road salt salinisation in fresh waters

(2019) William D. Hintz et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Shallow water phytoplankton responses to nitrate and salinity enrichment may be modified by benthic processes

(2019) Suzanne McGowan et al.   Inland Waters

Freshwater salinization syndrome on a continental scale

(2018) Sujay S. Kaushal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diluting a salty soup: Impact of long-lasting salt pollution on a deep Alpine lake (Traunsee, Austria) and the downside of recent recovery from salinization

(2018) Harald Ficker et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Biological interactions mediate context and species-specific sensitivities to salinity

(2018) J. P. Bray et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why are mayflies (Ephemeroptera) lost following small increases in salinity? Three conceptual osmophysiological hypotheses

(2018) Ben J. Kefford   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Salinity impacts on river ecosystem processes: a critical mini-review

(2018) Elisabeth Berger et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Regulations are needed to protect freshwater ecosystems from salinization

(2018) Matthew S. Schuler et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolved tolerance to freshwater salinization in zooplankton: life-history trade-offs, cross-tolerance and reducing cascading effects

(2018) William D. Hintz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial distribution and extent of urban land cover control watershed-scale chloride retention

(2018) Claire J. Oswald et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Rapid evolution of tolerance to road salt in zooplankton

(2017) Kayla D. Coldsnow et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Exploring the effects of salinization on trophic diversity in freshwater ecosystems: a quantitative review

(2017) Anakena M. Castillo et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Ecotoxicology of salinity tolerance in Daphnia pulex: interactive effects of clonal variation, salinity stress and predation

(2017) Xinwu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Flowpath and retention of snowmelt in an ice-covered arctic lake

(2017) Alicia Cortés et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A salty landscape of fear: responses of fish and zooplankton to freshwater salinization and predatory stress

(2017) William D. Hintz et al.   OECOLOGIA

Salting our freshwater lakes

(2017) Hilary A. Dugan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water quality data for national-scale aquatic research: The Water Quality Portal

(2017) Emily K. Read et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Toxicological perspective on the osmoregulation and ionoregulation physiology of major ions by freshwater animals: Teleost fish, crustacea, aquatic insects, and Mollusca

(2016) Michael B. Griffith   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Algal Diet of Small-Bodied Crustacean Zooplankton in a Cyanobacteria-Dominated Eutrophic Lake

(2016) Ilmar Tõnno et al.   PLoS One

Cultural meromixis: Effects of road salt on the chemical stratification of an urban kettle lake

(2015) Ryan J. Sibert et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Food Quantity Affects the Sensitivity of Daphnia to Road Salt

(2015) Arran H. Brown et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Evolutionary mechanisms of habitat invasions, using the copepodEurytemora affinisas a model system

(2015) Carol Eunmi Lee   Evolutionary Applications

A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands

(2015) Ellen R. Herbert et al.   Ecosphere

Contaminant driven genetic erosion and associated hypotheses on alleles loss, reduced population growth rate and increased susceptibility to future stressors: an essay

(2013) Rui Ribeiro et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Effects of Road Salts on Seasonal Wetlands: Poor Prey Performance May Compromise Growth of Predatory Salamanders

(2013) James W. Petranka et al.   WETLANDS

Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

(2012) Ulrich Sommer et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The evolution of salinity tolerance inDaphnia: a functional genomics approach

(2012) Leigh C. Latta et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Assessing the toxicity of sodium chloride to the glochidia of freshwater mussels: Implications for salinization of surface waters

(2011) Patricia L. Gillis   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Redox Stratification and Salinization of Three Kettle Lakes in Southwest Michigan, USA

(2011) Carla M. Koretsky et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Road Salt Stress Induces Novel Food Web Structure and Interactions

(2011) Robin J. Van Meter et al.   WETLANDS

A Fresh Look at Road Salt: Aquatic Toxicity and Water-Quality Impacts on Local, Regional, and National Scales

(2010) Steven R. Corsi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Chronic toxicity of chloride to freshwater species: Effects of hardness and implications for water quality guidelines

(2010) James R.F. Elphick et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Influence of water hardness and sulfate on the acute toxicity of chloride to sensitive freshwater invertebrates

(2010) David J. Soucek et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Stratification of lakes

(2008) Bertram Boehrer et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Long-Term Sodium Chloride Retention in a Rural Watershed: Legacy Effects of Road Salt on Streamwater Concentration

(2007) Victoria R. Kelly et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY