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Perspectives for biomonitoring at large spatial scales: a unified measure for the functional composition of invertebrate communities in European running waters
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This measure for the functional composition of invertebrate communities provides a first unified European baseline for future stream and river management: it was stable in the most natural but otherwise very different running water types across Europe, it safely indicated human impact, and it could potentially discriminate specific types of human disturbances.About:
This article is published in Basic and Applied Ecology.The article was published on 2001-01-01. It has received 248 citations till now.read more
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DEVELOPMENTS IN AQUATIC INSECT BIOMONITORING: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Approaches
TL;DR: This work used 12 criteria that should be fulfilled by an "ideal" biomonitoring tool, addressing the rationale, implementation, and performance of a method, and suggested that societies and governments prioritize how these criteria should be ranked.
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Functional trait niches of North American lotic insects: traits-based ecological applications in light of phylogenetic relationships
N. LeRoy Poff,Julian D. Olden,Nicole K. M. Vieira,Debra S. Finn,Mark P. Simmons,Boris C. Kondratieff +5 more
TL;DR: A new database on species-trait composition of North American lotic insects is created and some ideas about how specific trait linkages, statistical correlations among traits, and evolutionary lability of traits can be used in combination with a mechanistic understanding of trait response along environmental gradients to select robust traits useful for a more predictive community ecology are concluded.
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A case for using litter breakdown to assess functional stream integrity
Mark O. Gessner,Eric Chauvet +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a complementary approach to stream assessment based on evaluating ecosystem level processes is proposed, where leaf litter breakdown is a prime candidate to consider in this context, because of the pivotal role that allochthonous litter plays in streams, the demonstrated effects of anthropogenic perturbations on litter breakdown, and the relative ease of implementation.
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Assessment of european streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish : a comparative metric-based analysis of organism response to stress
Daniel Hering,Richard K. Johnson,Sandra Kramm,Stefan Schmutz,Krzysztof Szoszkiewicz,Piet F. M. Verdonschot +5 more
TL;DR: General recommendations on European bioassessment of streams were derived from the results, including those on land use changes, hydromorphological degradation on the microhabitat scale and general degradation gradients.
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Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms
Marie Vandewalle,Marie Vandewalle,Francesco de Bello,Francesco de Bello,Matty P. Berg,Thomas Bolger,Sylvain Dolédec,Florence Dubs,Christian K. Feld,Richard Harrington,Paula A. Harrison,Sandra Lavorel,Pedro Martins da Silva,Marco Moretti,Jari Niemelä,Paulo Santos,Thomas Sattler,J. Paulo Sousa,Martin T. Sykes,Adam J. Vanbergen,Ben A. Woodcock +20 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the development of indicators using functional traits could complement, rather than replace, the existent biodiversity monitoring and the comparison of the effect of land use changes on biodiversity is facilitated and is expected to positively influence conservation management practices.
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