▪ Abstract Aquatic insects and other benthic invertebrates are the most widely used
organisms in freshwater biomonitoring of human impact. Because of the high monetary …

In this paper, we present a review on concepts, current use and anticipated future directions
of biomonitoring approaches and bioindicators used for river ecosystems. Periphyton …

It is critical that the impacts of environmental stressors on natural systems are detected,
monitored and assessed accurately in order to legislate effectively and to protect and restore …

The main objective of the European Union (EU) funded project AQEM 1 was to develop a
framework of an assessment system for streams in Europe based on benthic …

The requirements of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), aimed at an
integrative assessment methodology for evaluating the ecological status of water bodies are …

Following the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requirements, we designed a new
multimetric index (I2M2) for the invertebrate-based ecological assessment of French …

Biotic indices are widely applied for conservation and management of aquatic resources
since they allow water resources monitoring agencies to get insight in complex biological …

This study describes the application of a protocol for biological assessment of water quality
at first to third order streams at Serra dos Órgãos, an area covered by Atlantic Forest in Rio …

The power of selected biological invertebrate traits for discriminating different types of
human impact (heavy metal pollution and cargo‐ship traffic) were tested using ecological …

We investigated four stream types in four different bioregions, classified by catchment area
and altitude, and stressed by different degrees of organic pollution and habitat alteration. We …