The increasing stress on lake ecosystems is affecting their functioning such as providing
goods and services to inhabiting organisms and riparian communities. Monitoring of water …

Macroinvertebrates are used as bioindicators worldwide, but the high diversity of
macroinvertebrate species and endemism in Latin America (LA) requires greater knowledge …

Anthropogenic disturbances have become one of the primary causes of biodiversity decline
in freshwater ecosystems. Beyond the well-documented loss of taxon richness in …

Although many studies show the negative impacts of agricultural activities on aquatic
ecosystems, few relate functional and structural characteristics of the biota. We evaluate the …

Freshwaters are considered among the most endangered ecosystems globally due to
multiple stressors, which coincide in time and space. These local stressors typically result …

Abstract Evaluation of the ecological health of rivers requires a focused examination of how
biological indicators respond to chemical stressors to offer key insights for effective …

Expansion of agricultural and urban areas and intensification of catchment land-use
increasingly affect different facets of biodiversity in aquatic communities. However …

Trait‐based ecology (TBE) has proven useful in the terrestrial realm and beyond for
collapsing ecological complexity into traits that can be compared and generalized across …

The biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationship is a critical topic in ecological
research, as it guides the maintenance of ecosystem functioning in the face of climate …

Agricultural activities impact riverine ecosystem structure, function, and processes. In the
Afrotropical regions, research on agricultural effects on macroinvertebrate trait distribution is …