Anthropogenic activities, including urbanisation and industrialisation threaten stream
ecological integrity, ecosystem community structure and ecosystem functioning of rivers and …

Benthic aquatic insects receive the most direct impact when surface waters are perturbed.
However, scarce data and understanding about activities' effects on surface water …

The involvement of trait-based approaches is crucial for understanding spatial patterns,
energy flow and matter transfer in running water systems, which requires consistent …

Anthropogenic pollution from urban and agricultural activities continually affects freshwater
ecosystems in Africa, adversely affecting water quality and biodiversity. In this study, we …

Developing species-level biomonitoring tools to monitor riverine systems threatened by
anthropogenic pollution, including local agricultural activities in the Afrotropical region …

Abstract Research on the Awash River focused on the upper section, while the middle and
lower regions received little attention. Thus, the goal of this study was to evaluate the impact …

Low-order streams contribute to the abiotic and biotic character of large rivers and are
renowned for harboring unique forms of aquatic flora and fauna. However, most studies on …

Habitat quality and diversity strongly influence the composition of macroinvertebrate
communities in lotic ecosystems. We evaluated the functional organization of …

We examined the distribution patterns of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera
functional feeding groups (EPT FFGs) in five streams that drain semi-urban landscapes in …

The current study investigated the relationship between sediment grain sizes and
macroinvertebrate distribution along the Isiukhu River, a tropical stream in western Kenya …