Changes in land-use practices have affected the integrity and quality of water resources
worldwide. In Patagonia there is a strong concern about the ecological status of surface …

The value of measuring ecosystem functions in regular monitoring programs is increasingly
being recognised as a potent tool for assessing river health. We measured the response of …

Aquatic insects are the dominant taxon group in most freshwater ecosystems. As
temperature is the main driver of their life cycle development, metabolic activity, and …

Aquatic communities are structured by multiple forces, and identifying the driving factors
over multispatial scales is an important research issue. The East Asian monsoon region is …

This work aimed to assess the effect of certain physical-chemical variables and the Habitat
Integrity Index (HII) have on an aquatic and semi-aquatic heteropteran community. We …

To meet the challenges of preventing and reversing adverse effects of land use on
ecosystems, management actions need to be founded on strong evidence. We used the …

In stream ecosystems, bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient and energy
cycling processes as they are among the most numerous and active organisms at the basal …

The assessment of the ecological status of freshwater ecosystems is a key issue for many
international laws such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in light of the actual …

Exploring how water quality and land use shape the benthic macroinvertebrate community
composition is of widespread interest in biodiversity conservation and environmental …

Surface water quality is vulnerable to pollution due to human activities. The upper reach of
the Hun River is an important water source that supplies 52% of the storage capacity of the …