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 …

Globally, croplands and rangelands are major land uses and they have altered lands and
waters for millennia. This continues to be the case throughout the USA, despite substantial …

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

Rapid urbanization and economic development caused urban river pollution globally. In the
develo** countries' megapolis, the situation is especially critical in response to the United …

Ecological integrity has been criticized as a “bad fit as a value” for conservation biology and
restoration ecology. But work over the past four decades centered on ecological integrity …

Anthropogenic alteration of physical habitat structure in streams and rivers is increasingly
recognized as a major cause of impairment worldwide. As part of their assessment of the …

Rigorous assessments of the ecological condition of water resources and the effect of
human activities on those waters require quantitative physical, chemical, and biological …

Rivers are the arteries of human civilisation and culture, providing essential goods and
services that underpin water and food security, socio-economic development and climate …

Effective and standardized monitoring methodologies are vital for successful reservoir
restoration and management. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding sequencing offers …

Automated fish counters featuring robust, real-time computer vision capabilities can provide
a cost-effective means to count migrating freshwater fish. In this work, we propose a four …