Macroinvertebrates are an important component of stream ecosystems and are a link in the
transfer of material and energy from producers to top level consumers and also act as …

The connection between aquatic and terrestrial habitats has increased scientific interest in
ecological subsidies, focusing on how the transfer of matter and energy between adjacent …

Faced with widespread degradation of riverine ecosystems, stream restoration has greatly
increased. Such restoration is rarely planned and executed with inputs from ecological …

Anthropogenic disturbances of the physical habitat and corresponding effects on fish
performance are key issues in stream conservation and restoration. Reduced habitat …

Summary 1 Increasing degradation of ecological conditions in streams because of human
activities has prompted widespread restoration attempts; however, the ecological …

Enhancement projects within anadromous salmonid rivers of California have increased in
recent years. Much of this work is intended as mitigation in regulated streams where salmon …

Methods are needed to relate changing river flows to ecological response, particularly those
which do not require collection of extensive new data for river segments that lack historical …

This study presents the development of a multimetric index using benthic
macroinvertebrates (BMI) to assess the ecological health of highland rivers in Ethiopia. BMI …

Abstract The Biała River, Polish Carpathians, was considerably modified by channelization
and channel incision in the twentieth century. To restore the Biała, establishing an erodible …

In freshwater environments, high biodiversity is commonly associated with habitat
heterogeneity. River bends and meanders are particularly complex morphodynamic …