Groundwater is a vital ecosystem of the global water cycle, hosting unique biodiversity and
providing essential services to societies. Despite being the largest unfrozen freshwater …

The bleak Alburnus alburnus is a medium body-size leuciscid fish that is naturally distributed
across central European and western Asian fresh waters. However, during the last two …

The enormity and complexity of problems like environmental degradation and biodiversity
loss have led to the development of indicator species and other surrogate approaches to …

The analysis of community structure in studies of freshwater ecology often requires the
application of dimensionality reduction to process multivariate data. A high number of …

Fish exposed to supersaturated total dissolved gas (TDG) levels can develop gas bubble
trauma (GBT) which can lead to sublethal effects or mortality. Access to refugia in areas of …

Extensive surveys were conducted to explore the diversity of fishes, distribution patterns,
abundance, threat, and habitat status in the upper, middle, and lower stretch of river Gomti, a …

How urbanization affects the distribution patterns of butterflies is still poorly known. Here we
investigated the structure and composition of butterfly assemblages along an urbanization …

The simultaneous conservation of species richness and evenness is important to effectively
reduce biodiversity loss and keep ecosystem health. Environmental DNA (eDNA) …

Today's river systems have been extensively modified, requiring us to rethink how we
approach the management of these important ecosystems. We evaluated the effects of …

ABSTRACT A multimetric Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) based on fish data was developed to
assess the ecological status of Iberian streams, in the context of the European Water …