These genetic changes have the potential to disrupt fish reproduction, which could in turn can have negative effects on the aquatic ecosystem.

Their population status or structure, physiology, or their content of certain elements or compounds can reveal the contamination status of any aquatic ecosystem.

Accurate maps of the aquatic plant distribution within an aquatic ecosystem are an essential part resource management.

Collecting information about them can, in other words, paint a broader picture of how aquatic ecosystems are faring.

Environmentally, these chemicals have the ability to disrupt the overall composition of water and any natural oils that may commonly be present within the aquatic ecosystem.