Effects of agricultural land use on river biota: a meta-analysis

C Schürings, CK Feld, J Kail, D Hering - Environmental Sciences Europe, 2022 - Springer
Agriculture, the world's most dominant land use type, burdens freshwater biodiversity with a
multitude of stressors such as diffuse pollution and hydromorphological alteration. However …

Responses of aquatic plants to eutrophication in rivers: a revised conceptual model

MT O'Hare, A Baattrup-Pedersen, I Baumgarte… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Compared to research on eutrophication in lakes, there has been significantly less work
carried out on rivers despite the importance of the topic. However, over the last decade …

[HTML][HTML] Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive

L Carvalho, EB Mackay, AC Cardoso… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a pioneering piece of legislation that aims
to protect and enhance aquatic ecosystems and promote sustainable water use across …

Anthropogenic modifications and river ecosystem services: a landscape perspective

A Ekka, S Pande, Y Jiang, P der Zaag - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The process of development has led to the modification of river landscapes. This has
created imbalances between ecological, economic, and socio-cultural uses of ecosystem …

Using river microalgae as indicators for freshwater biomonitoring: Review of published research and future directions

N Wu, X Dong, Y Liu, C Wang, A Baattrup-Pedersen… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Trait-based approaches may give insights into underlying mechanisms of relationships
between biological communities and environmental stressors, and are increasingly used in …

Environment regimes play an important role in structuring trait‐and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms

N Wu, Y Wang, Y Wang, X Sun, C Faber… - journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A sound understanding of the community changes over time and its driving forces is at the
centre of biodiversity conservation and ecology research. In this study, we examined:(i) the …

Effective river restoration in the 21st century: from trial and error to novel evidence-based approaches

N Friberg, NV Angelopoulos, AD Buijse… - Advances in ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper is a comprehensive and updated overview of river restoration and covers all
relevant aspects from drivers of restoration, linkages between hydromorphology and biota …

Spatial and local environmental factors outweigh geo‐climatic gradients in structuring taxonomically and trait‐based β‐diversity of benthic algae

N Wu, S Zhou, M Zhang, W Peng, K Guo… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the variation in biodiversity and its underlying drivers and mechanisms
is a core task in biogeography and ecology. We examined (a) the relative contributions of …

Multi-factor identification and modelling analyses for managing large river algal blooms

R Xia, Y Zhang, G Wang, Y Zhang, M Dou, X Hou… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
River algal blooms have become a newly emerging global environmental issue in recent
decades. Compared with water eutrophication in lakes and reservoirs, algal blooms in large …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental stressors as a driver of the trait composition of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in polluted Iberian rivers

M Kuzmanovic, S Dolédec, N de Castro-Catala… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
We used the trait composition of macroinvertebrate communities to identify the effects of
pesticides and multiple stressors associated with urban land use at different sites of four …