Ecological indicators for stream restoration success

J Pander, J Geist - Ecological indicators, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Exploitation of freshwater resources is essential for sustenance of human existence and
alteration of rivers, lakes and wetlands has facilitated economic development for centuries …

www. freshwaterecology. info–an online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological …

A Schmidt-Kloiber, D Hering - Ecological Indicators, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Species' ecological preferences are progressively important for understanding distribution
patterns, for conserving biodiversity or for assessing and evaluating the status of freshwater …

Sorting things out: Assessing effects of unequal specimen biomass on DNA metabarcoding

V Elbrecht, B Peinert, F Leese - Ecology and evolution, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Environmental bulk samples often contain many different taxa that vary several orders of
magnitude in biomass. This can be problematic in DNA metabarcoding and metagenomic …

Multiple‐stressor effects on stream invertebrates: a mesocosm experiment manipulating nutrients, fine sediment and flow velocity

V Elbrecht, AJ Beermann, G Goessler… - Freshwater …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use changes have degraded ecosystems worldwide. A particular concern for
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem function are stressors introduced by intensified …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen science for assessing pesticide impacts in agricultural streams

J von Gönner, DE Bowler, J Gröning, AK Klauer… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The majority of central European streams are in poor ecological condition. Pesticide inputs
from terrestrial habitats present a key threat to sensitive insects in streams. Both …

Biodiversity of traits and species both show weak responses to hydromorphological alteration in lowland river macroinvertebrates

CK Feld, F de Bello, S Dolédec - Freshwater biology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Lotic ecosystems worldwide are being increasingly modified hydromorphologically, for
example, by damming, fragmentation, flow regulation and channel modification. Serious …

Advancing the use of molecular methods for routine freshwater macroinvertebrate biomonitoring–the need for calibration experiments

RC Blackman, E Mächler, F Altermatt… - Metabarcoding and …, 2019‏ - zora.uzh.ch
Over the last decade, steady advancements have been made in the use of DNA-based
methods for detection of species in a wide range of ecosystems. This progress has …

Citizen science shows that small agricultural streams in Germany are in a poor ecological status

J von Gönner, J Gröning, V Grescho, L Neuer… - Science of the Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Agricultural pesticides, nutrients, and habitat degradation are major causes of insect
declines in lowland streams. To effectively conserve and restore stream habitats …

Effects of multiple stressors on the distribution of fish communities in 203 headwater streams of Rhine, Elbe and Danube

M Mueller, AM Bierschenk, BM Bierschenk… - Science of the Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Fishes in European rivers are threatened by manifold stressors such as structural
degradation, water pollution, overexploitation, land-use changes in the catchment, invasive …

Adding DNA barcoding to stream monitoring protocols–What's the additional value and congruence between morphological and molecular identification approaches?

S Behrens-Chapuis, F Herder, MF Geiger - PLoS One, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Although aquatic macroinvertebrates and freshwater fishes are important indicators for
freshwater quality assessments, the morphological identification to species-level is often …