Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers

MJ Feio, RM Hughes, SRQ Serra… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rivers suffer from multiple stressors acting simultaneously on their biota, but the
consequences are poorly quantified at the global scale. We evaluated the biological …

A critical review of biomonitoring in East African rivers: fostering community-based collaboration for environmental change observation

N Kitaka, LA Omondi, PW Mureithi, A Bauer… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The contribution of citizen scientists to environmental monitoring is notably increasing
significantly. Governments worldwide establish Water Users Associations (WUAs) as a good …

A benthic invertebrates-based biotic index to assess the ecological status of West African Sahel Rivers, Burkina Faso

I Kaboré, A Ouéda, O Moog, P Meulenbroek… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conserving aquatic resources in the West African Sahel requires water management tools to
assess the ecological status of surface water bodies threatened by mounting pressures from …

Determination of the connectedness of land use, land cover change to water quality status of a shallow lake: a case of Lake Kyoga Basin, Uganda

JP Obubu, S Mengistou, R Odong, T Fetahi, T Alamirew - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Catchments for aquatic ecosystems connect to the water quality of those waterbodies. Land
use land cover change activities in the catchments, therefore, play a significant role in …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the ecological health of aquatic habitats in a megacity through a multimetric index model based on macroinvertebrates

C Wang, X Zhou, M Xu, L Zhang, X Hou, Z Wang… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally, urban water bodies suffer from a variety of ecological pressures which profoundly
change freshwater ecosystem services and pose a great threat to aquatic biodiversity. To …

Space and spatially structured environmental variables account for variation in blackfly and mayfly communities in sub-tropical South African rivers

PA Ramulifho, SH Foord… - African Journal of Aquatic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Using aquatic invertebrate assemblages for bioassessment of streams and rivers is a fast
and cost-effective approach to studying the impact of environmental stressors in aquatic …