Anthropogenic sources increase freshwater salinity and produce differences in constituent
ions compared with natural waters. Moreover, ions differ in physiological roles and …

Efforts to incorporate bioavailability adjustments into regulatory water quality criteria in the
United States have included four major procedures: hardness‐based single‐linear …

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the
latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the …

Surface coal mining with valley fills has impaired the aquatic life in numerous streams in the
Central Appalachian Mountains. We characterized macroinvertebrate communities from …

Macroinvertebrates are used more often than any other groups of organisms when
assessing the environmental quality of lotic systems. In this chapter we describe the many …

Four approaches to or levels of identifying macroinvertebrates (amateur/family, expert
entomologist/genus, expert entomologist/genus–species, and DNA barcoding/species) were …

Abstract Mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) are common inhabitants of streams throughout
the Appalachian Mountains. Headwater mayfly assemblages were evaluated with respect to …

We used a phylogenetically based comparative approach to evaluate the potential for
physiological studies to reveal patterns of diversity in traits related to susceptibility to an …

The Netherlands Stimulation program on System-oriented Ecotoxicological Research
focused on three study areas, including two floodplains and a peaty grassland. All three …

Los sistemas fluviales han estado sometidos a la fuerte presión humana, debido a la
intervención no planificada que ha desencadenado un mal manejo de aguas …