The biological assessment of rivers ie, their assessment through use of aquatic
assemblages, integrates the effects of multiple-stressors on these systems over time and is …

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 …

Rivers suffer from multiple stressors acting simultaneously on their biota, but the
consequences are poorly quantified at the global scale. We evaluated the biological …

An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action to slow current rates
of decline and secure ecosystem services for future human use. Although the IUCN Red List …

Water quality agencies and scientists are increasingly adopting standardized sampling
methodologies because of the challenges associated with interpreting data derived from …

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 …

Random forest (RF) modeling has emerged as an important statistical learning method in
ecology due to its exceptional predictive performance. However, for large and complex …

Assessments of environmental conditions in rivers and streams with diatoms have a long
history, which has resulted in the development of the two basic conceptual and analytical …

Algae have been used for a century in environmental assessments of water bodies and are
now used in countries around the world. This review synthesizes recent advances in the …

Aquatic organisms in streams are exposed to pesticide mixtures that vary in composition
over time in response to changes in flow conditions, pesticide inputs to the stream, and …