Freshwater biota are more comprehensive and direct indicators of biological impacts, and
more meaningful to the public than water quality or physical habitat surrogates. Freshwater …

The focus of this review is to discuss the current uses and developments of
macroinvertebrate and fish indicators in riverine ecosystems. Macroinvertebrates and fish …

In 1981, James R. Karr's paper 'Assessment of biotic integrity using fish communities'
provided the first description of a multimetric procedure to assess the biotic integrity of …

Abstract Taking Lake Gehu located in the Yangtze River Delta as the research object, the
phytoplankton community and environmental variables at 18 sampling sites in Lake Gehu …

Previous studies of climate change impacts on stream fish distributions commonly project
the potential patterns of habitat loss and fragmentation due to elevated stream temperatures …

We developed a preliminary fish-based multimetric index (MMI) to assess biotic condition of
Atlantic Rain Forest streams in Southeastern Brazil. We used least-disturbed sites as proxies …

Based on the planktonic data monitored in Lake Balihe, an ecosystem health assessment
system referring to planktonic index of biotic integrity (P-IBI) was constructed to evaluate the …

Large river systems are some of the most important aquatic resource for human beings.
Unfortunately, ecological integrity of large rivers has been altered severely by human …

Large river–reservoir systems are some of the most difficult aquatic ecosystems to assess
because:(1) they typically lack minimally disturbed reference sites;(2) the reservoirs are not …

Brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis populations have declined in much of the native range in
eastern North America and populations are typically relegated to small headwater streams …