The first studies of diatoms and river pollution were carried out 60 years ago, and the
suitability of these micro-algae as bioassessment indicators for monitoring river quality was …

The examination of correlates of diatom community structure has long been centred on local
environmental factors instead of broad-scale biogeographical factors largely because …

Current biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring are largely based on the morphological
identification of selected bioindicator taxa. Recently, several attempts have been made to …

Diatoms were collected from 49 sites located on 23 rivers and identified to species. We
defined 26 attributes of the diatom assemblage on the basis of tolerance and intolerance …

We examined the utility of using genera and families as surrogates of species-level
assemblage patterns. We assessed cross-taxonomic level congruence, as well as …

Biodiversity embraces multiple facets of the variability of nature, although most research has
dealt separately with population-, species-and assemblage-level measures. This review …

A topic under intensive study in community ecology and biogeography is the degree to
which microscopic, as well as macroscopic organisms, show spatially‐structured variation in …

We developed an Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) for the Interior Plateau Ecoregion (IPE), USA,
which assessed effects of human disturbance on the biotic condition of stream diatom …

Benthic diatoms are routinely used to assess river pollution. Most of the tools based on these
organisms exploit the differences of pollution sensitivity between species; as such, species …

Benthic algae were collected from 272 eastern United States streams and rivers and
analyzed for diatom species richness and dominance, the relative abundance of …