Abstract Changes in riparian vegetation directly affect the entry of allochthonous material
into aquatic systems, which is the main source of food and energy for different functional …

Ephemeroptera es uno de los órdenes más antiguos de Pterygota, con ninfas acuáticas y
adultos alados con una vida muy corta de la cual proviene su nombre. Los estudios sobre …

The Amazon forests are under threat from multiple human land uses, but the effect of the
different types of land uses on environmental heterogeneity and the α-and β-diversity of …

Anthropic activities are one of the main drivers of change in the environmental
characteristics of streams and the diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrates. We evaluated the …

This chapter compiles active and passive defensive mechanisms of aquatic and semiaquatic
developmental stages of all insect orders against various predators. Mainly escape …

Surrogate indicators are important alternatives to overcome the shortage of total biodiversity
data for planning and implementing conservation measures. The most important premise of …

The increasing land use in the Amazon region has resulted in the widespread substitution of
forest areas with pasture and bauxite mining. These land uses reduce the forest cover of …

As a small order of Pterygota (Insecta), Ephemeroptera has almost 3,500 species around the
world. Ephemerellidae is a widely distributed common group of Ephemeroptera. However …

Aquatic insects of the orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT) have a
wide distribution and play an important ecological role in aquatic ecosystems, primarily in …

The present study evaluated the potential for the reduction of sampling effort in studies of
ephemeropteran nymphs in Brazilian Amazon streams, Pará State, Brazil, without the loss of …