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 …

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a water quality index (WQI) to estimate
benefits of proposed Clean Water Act regulations. The WQI is relevant to human use value …

As river ecosystems continue to face environmental pressures, it is crucial to develop and
apply new biologically relevant statistical tools to support river health assessments. This …

Lakes within river-floodplain ecosystems are key biodiversity refuges majorly threatened by
eutrophication and hydrologic river-lake fragmentation. However, an integrative index …

Knee arthroscopic surgery is a common treatment for meniscal, cartilage, bone, and
ligament injuries. Following surgery, a period of unloading to allow tissue to heal and pain …

Indices such as the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) are often used by management agencies to
estimate the abstract property of stream health. These indices are usually predicated on the …

The focus of the present study was to assess the dynamics of wetland ecosystem health in
both urban and rural settings situated in the high-altitude Kashmir Himalayan ecoregion …

Monitoring programs at sub-national and national scales lack coordination, harmonization,
and systematic review and analysis at continental and global scales, and thus fail to …

Twenty USA states or jurisdictions and 125 nations have modeled national environmental
policies after the National Environmental Policy Act. That act mandates that federal agencies …