Hydrological monitoring is essential to guide evidence-based decision making necessary for
sustainable water resource management and governance. Limited hydrometric datasets and …

The present review with focus on the last decade (2000–2010) aims to (i) collecting the
major hypotheses explaining freshwater biodiversity patterns,(ii) identifying the main …

Resources for biodiversity surveys and conservation planning are limited, and conservation
biologists and environmental managers are thus striving to find suitable surrogates for …

Abstract The European Water Framework Directive aims to improve ecological status within
river basins. This requires knowledge of responses of aquatic assemblages to recovery …

One objective of the European Union (EU)'s Water Framework Directive (WFD: Directive
2000/60/EC) is for all European surface waters to achieve 'good status' by 2015. In support …

Environmental sensor networks offer a powerful combination of distributed sensing capacity,
real‐time data visualization and analysis, and integration with adjacent networks and remote …

Biodiversity embraces multiple facets of the variability of nature, although most research has
dealt separately with population-, species-and assemblage-level measures. This review …

We summarized landscape approaches used in the study of freshwater ecosystems,
updated recent literature reviews on interactions between terrestrial and lotic ecosystems …

The spatial organisation of biotic communities derives from factors operating at a wide range
of spatial and temporal scales. Despite strong scientific evidence of prevalent spatial control …

Ecosystem assessment and monitoring requires the development and application of suitable
indicators, ie they need to be (i) reliable and capable of simplifying complex relationships,(ii) …