Temperate Australia sits between the heat engine of the tropics and the cold Southern
Ocean, encompassing a range of rainfall regimes and falling under the influence of different …

Biological indicators have been widely used in Australian riverine systems to assess the
effectiveness of past and current management. The short generation time, sessile nature …

Measurements of ecological patterns are often used as primary biological indicators of river
health. However, these patterns provide little information about important stream ecosystem …

Diatoms were collected from 49 sites located on 23 rivers and identified to species. We
defined 26 attributes of the diatom assemblage on the basis of tolerance and intolerance …

We tested direct and indirect measures of benthic metabolism as indicators of stream
ecosystem health across a known agricultural land-use disturbance gradient in southeast …

Diatoms were sampled in the spring of 1994 and the autumn of 1995 at 137 pristine or near‐
pristine reference sites on large and small streams at various altitudes in eastern New South …

The inclusion of diatoms into the current suite of biomonitoring tools in use in South Africa,
as well as the use of European and other diatom indices in South Africa, and in particular the …

USE OF ALGAE IN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS Page 1 I. INTRODUCTION Algae have
long been used to assess environmental conditions in aquatic habitats throughout the world …

Diatoms have become important organisms for monitoring freshwaters and their value has
been recognized in Europe, American and African continents. If India is to include diatoms in …

River regulation has significantly altered the hydrology and ecology of floodplain wetlands
throughout the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Management plans proposed for rivers in …