[HTML][HTML] Assemblage-based biomonitoring of freshwater ecosystem health via multimetric indices: A critical review and suggestions for improving their applicability

RL Vadas Jr, RM Hughes, YJ Bae, MJ Baek… - Water Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Freshwater biota are more comprehensive and direct indicators of biological impacts, and
more meaningful to the public than water quality or physical habitat surrogates. Freshwater …

Global trends and challenges in multimetric indices of biological condition

R Ruaro, EA Gubiani, RM Hughes, RP Mormul - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of multimetric indices (MMIs) of biological condition has been globally applied
because they are practical tools that incorporate various biological metrics at different levels …

Odonata (Insecta) as a tool for the biomonitoring of environmental quality

TB Miguel, JMB Oliveira-Junior, R Ligeiro, L Juen - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite the fundamental dependence of human populations on water resources, a range of
anthropogenic impacts, in particular the removal of riparian vegetation, threaten freshwater …

The relation of lotic fish and benthic macroinvertebrate condition indices to environmental factors across the conterminous USA

AT Herlihy, JC Sifneos, RM Hughes, DV Peck… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
National and regional ecological assessments are essential for making rational decisions
concerning water body conservation and management at those spatial extents. We analyzed …

Is DNA barcoding actually cheaper and faster than traditional morphological methods: results from a survey of freshwater bioassessment efforts in the United States?

ED Stein, MC Martinez, S Stiles, PE Miller… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Taxonomic identification accounts for a substantial portion of cost associated with
bioassessment programs across the United States. New analytical approaches, such as …

A synthesis of land use impacts on stream biodiversity across metrics and scales

DK Petsch, SA Blowes, AS Melo, JM Chase - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change in streams, the nature
of such changes, and at which scales they occur, have not been synthesized. To synthesize …

A review of macroinvertebrate-and fish-based stream health indices

MR Herman, AP Nejadhashemi - Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, 2015 - Elsevier
The focus of this review is to discuss the current uses and developments of
macroinvertebrate and fish indicators in riverine ecosystems. Macroinvertebrates and fish …

特约论文: 生态基流研究: 进展与挑战

徐宗学, 武玮, 于松延 - 水力发电学报, 2016 - slfdxb.cn
水库大坝等水利工程的兴建和运行改变了天然的河流水文情势, 在一定程度上造成了河流生态
系统功能和物种多样性的减小. 生态基流的提出正是为了缓解由水利工程造成的水文情势改变 …

An improved macroinvertebrate multimetric index for the assessment of wadeable streams in the neotropical savanna

DRO Silva, AT Herlihy, RM Hughes, M Callisto - Ecological indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Multimetric indices (MMIs) have been successfully used to assess ecological conditions in
freshwater ecosystems worldwide, and provide an important management tool especially in …

Development of a benthic macroinvertebrate multimetric index (MMI) for Neotropical Savanna headwater streams

DR Macedo, RM Hughes, WR Ferreira, KR Firmiano… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Assessing the ecological impacts of anthropogenic pressures is a key task in environmental
management. Multimetric indices (MMIs), based on aquatic assemblage responses to …