Land use changes in urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural processes will continue
to have negative impacts on water quality at all scales. The impact of land use changes on …

Biological monitoring is the evaluating changes in the environment using the biological
responses with the intent of using such information in quality control of the ecosystem …

Rapid urbanization in China has dramatically deteriorated the water quality of streams and
threatening aquatic ecosystem health. This study aims to 1) assess the impacts of …

At a time when anthropogenic activities are increasingly disturbing the overall ecological
integrity of freshwater ecosystems, monitoring of biological communities is central to …

Due to the latest industrial development, many dangerous chemicals have been released
directly or indirectly which resulted in the polluted water bodies. Water rehabilitation is an …

Urbanisation poses a clear threat to tropical freshwater streams, yet fundamental knowledge
gaps hinder our ability to effectively conserve stream biodiversity and preserve ecosystem …

Understanding the influence of land-use activities on river quality has been a key focus of
river monitoring programs worldwide. However, defining which land-use spatial scale is …

There has recently been increasing interest in patterns of beta diversity but we still lack a
comprehensive understanding of these patterns in various regions (eg the tropics) …

To characterize the distribution of heavy metals and benthic macroinvertebrates and to
evaluate the relationship between metal pollution and benthic community structure, we …

Urbanization is occurring rapidly in southeastern Asia where streams are increasingly
pressured. We assessed the ecological integrity of Ampang River in Kuala Lumpur by …