Anthropogenic alteration of physical habitat structure in streams and rivers is increasingly
recognized as a major cause of impairment worldwide. As part of their assessment of the …

Rigorous assessments of the ecological condition of water resources and the effect of
human activities on those waters require quantitative physical, chemical, and biological …

The Amazon forests are under threat from multiple human land uses, but the effect of the
different types of land uses on environmental heterogeneity and the α-and β-diversity of …

Agricultural intensification has been associated with biodiversity declines, habitat
fragmentation and loss in a number of organisms. Given the prevalence of this process …

Land-use changes have negative effects on stream conditions and fish assemblages, but
their effects on water quality and the use of microhabitats by fish in subtropical lowland …

Land-use changes influence the ecological water quality. In spite of this knowledge, land-
use information is often missing in ecological water quality studies. Therefore, in the present …

In river systems, frequent floods generally decrease the abundance of riverine species, and
recent studies have reported that the degree of flood disturbance changes along agricultural …

Predation presents specific behavioral characteristics for each species, and the interaction
between prey and predator influences the structuring of the food web. Concerning insects …

Clarifying the combined effects of water temperature and other environmental factors on the
species distributions of cold-water fishes is the first step toward obtaining a better …

With agricultural demands increasing globally, determining the nature of impacts of different
forms of agriculture on biodiversity, especially for threatened vertebrates and habitats, is …