[HTML][HTML] Assemblage-based biomonitoring of freshwater ecosystem health via multimetric indices: A critical review and suggestions for improving their applicability

RL Vadas Jr, RM Hughes, YJ Bae, MJ Baek… - Water Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Conservation biogeography of freshwater fishes: recent progress and future challenges

JD Olden, MJ Kennard, F Leprieur… - Diversity and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To identify key research questions and challenges that will, if addressed in a timely
manner, significantly advance the field of freshwater fish biogeography and conservation …

Disentangling the pathways of land use impacts on the functional structure of fish assemblages in Amazon streams

RP Leitão, J Zuanon, D Mouillot, CG Leal… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural land use is a primary driver of environmental impacts on streams. However, the
causal processes that shape these impacts operate through multiple pathways and at …

Patterns and predictors of fish dispersal in rivers

J Radinger, C Wolter - Fish and fisheries, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying fish dispersal and identifying its general predictors is key for understanding
temporal patterns in population dynamics, emigration and immigration, meta‐community …

Unexpected fish diversity gradients in the Amazon basin

T Oberdorff, MS Dias, C Jézéquel, JS Albert… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Using the most comprehensive fish occurrence database, we evaluated the importance of
ecological and historical drivers in diversity patterns of subdrainage basins across the …

Hydrological connectivity for riverine fish: measurement challenges and research opportunities

AH Fullerton, KM Burnett, EA Steel… - Freshwater …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we first summarize how hydrologic connectivity has been studied for riverine
fish capable of moving long distances, and then identify research opportunities that have …

Metacommunity theory as a multispecies, multiscale framework for studying the influence of river network structure on riverine communities and ecosystems

BL Brown, CM Swan, DA Auerbach… - Journal of the North …, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Explaining the mechanisms underlying patterns of species diversity and composition in
riverine networks is challenging. Historically, community ecologists have conceived of …

Acquiring data for large aquatic resource surveys: the art of compromise among science, logistics, and reality

RM Hughes, DV Peck - Journal of the North American …, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revising its strategy to obtain the
information needed to answer questions pertinent to water-quality management efficiently …

Network thinking in riverscape conservation–a graph-based approach

T Erős, D Schmera, RS Schick - Biological Conservation, 2011 - Elsevier
Graph theoretic approaches have received increased interest recently in landscape
planning and conservation in the terrestrial realm, because these approaches facilitate the …

The relative influence of catchment and site variables on fish and macroinvertebrate richness in cerrado biome streams

DR Macedo, RM Hughes, R Ligeiro, WR Ferreira… - Landscape …, 2014 - Springer
Landscape and site-scale data analyses aid the interpretation of biological data and thereby
help us develop more cost-effective natural resource management strategies. Our study …