Biomonitoring as a prerequisite for sustainable water resources: a review of current status, opportunities and challenges to scaling up in East Africa

FO Masese, JO Omukoto, K Nyakeya - Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Degradation of aquatic ecosystems in the Lake Victoria basin (LVB) and the rest of East
Africa has elicited concern because of its bearing on social and economic development …

Metrics of structural change as indicators of chironomid community stability in high latitude lakes

RJ Mayfield, PG Langdon, CP Doncaster… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the effects of climate change on ecosystem structure and stability is
challenging, especially in high latitude regions that are predicted to experience the largest …

Influence of agricultural, industrial, and anthropogenic stresses on the distribution and diversity of macroinvertebrates in Juru River Basin, Penang, Malaysia

SA Al-Shami, CSM Rawi, AH Ahmad, SA Hamid… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Abundance and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates as well as physico-chemical
parameters were investigated in five rivers of the Juru River Basin in northern Peninsula …

Distribution of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in polluted rivers of the Juru River Basin, Penang, Malaysia

SA Al-Shami, CSM Rawi, A HassanAhmad… - Journal of Environmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
The influence of physical and chemical parameters on the abundance and diversity of
chironomids was studied in six rivers with moderate to highly polluted water in the Juru River …

Impact of mining and industrial pollution on stream macroinvertebrates: importance of taxonomic resolution, water geochemistry and EPT indices for impact detection

IA Wright, MM Ryan - Hydrobiologia, 2016 - Springer
This study investigated freshwater macroinvertebrate communities in waterways
contaminated by active and abandoned mining and industrial activities in order to ascertain …

Increased water pollution after closure of Australia's longest operating underground coal mine: a 13-month study of mine drainage, water chemistry and river ecology

IA Wright, K Paciuszkiewicz, N Belmer - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2018 - Springer
This study investigated the water pollution impact of mine drainage from an underground
colliery that had stopped mining 3 years earlier. After more than a century of operation, the …

Distribution of heavy metals and benthic macroinvertebrates: Impacts from typical inflow river sediments in the Taihu Basin, China

B Bian, Y Zhou, BB Fang - Ecological Indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
To characterize the distribution of heavy metals and benthic macroinvertebrates and to
evaluate the relationship between metal pollution and benthic community structure, we …

Coal mine water pollution and ecological impairment of one of Australia's most 'protected'high conservation-value rivers

IA Wright, N Belmer, PJ Davies - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2017 - Springer
The environmental regulation of a coal mine in the greater Sydney area has failed to
recognise the importance of and protect a high conservation-value river located in a World …

[HTML][HTML] Copper and chlorpyrifos stress affect the gut microbiota of chironomid larvae (Propsilocerus akamusi)

Z Sun, W Sun, J An, H Xu, Y Liu, C Yan - Ecotoxicology and environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chironomids are characterized by their ubiquitous distribution, global diversity and tolerant
ability to deal with environmental stressors. To our knowledge, this is the first study …

Subsidence from an underground coal mine and mine wastewater discharge causing water pollution and degradation of aquatic ecosystems

IA Wright, B McCarthy, N Belmer, P Price - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2015 - Springer
This study examined a single underground coal mine and investigated two aspects of its
operation: the disposal of the mine waste through a discharge to a nearby river and the …