The loss of longitudinal connectivity affects river systems globally, being one of the leading causes of the freshwater biodiversity crisis. Barriers alter the dispersal of aquatic organisms …
Land use intensification has led to conspicuous changes in plant and animal communities across the world. Shifts in trait‐based functional composition have recently been …
K Barrett, SJ Price - Freshwater Science, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Urban areas are increasing in size and human population density. The implications of widespread urbanization are apparent for a wide variety of stream organisms, but the …
The goods and services provided by riverine systems are critical to humanity, and our reliance increases with our growing population and demands. As our activities expand …
Urbanization is associated with substantial losses to stream biological diversity throughout the United States' mid‐Atlantic. Stream restoration has been used to improve stream …
BL Tufts, J Holden, M DeMille - International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Fish are one of North America's most valuable renewable resources. Although recreational anglers harvest a portion of their catch, modern recreational fisheries are based on the …
Indices such as the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) are often used by management agencies to estimate the abstract property of stream health. These indices are usually predicated on the …
N Jargal, JE Kim, KG An - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Elucidating the responses of aquatic communities to environmental (eg, chemical, habitat, and flow regime) and biological disturbances is essential to the maintenance and restoration …
Urbanization substantially changes the physicochemical and biological characteristics of streams. The trajectory of negative effect is broadly similar around the world, but the nature …