The relation of lotic fish and benthic macroinvertebrate condition indices to environmental factors across the conterminous USA

Beta diversity of aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages associated with leaf patches in neotropical montane streams

“…Malaysia (Al-Shami et al, 2013), subtropical streams in South Africa (Rivers-Moore, 2012) and for variability in MMI (multimetric index) scores of 3,420 temperate (USA) stream and river sites (Herlihy et al, 2020). Our results agree with those of Macedo et al (2014), who reported that catchment-extent predictors explained more of the variability in macroinvertebrate and fish taxa richness for lower elevation Cerrado sites.…”

“…Other authors have reached different conclusions for fish in Amazonian streams (Leal et al., 2018), macroinvertebrates in Cerrado streams (Castro et al., 2018; Firmiano et al., 2021), and fish in Cerrado streams (Pompeu et al., 2019). Different results also have been reported for tropical streams in Malaysia (Al‐Shami et al., 2013), subtropical streams in South Africa (Rivers‐Moore, 2012) and for variability in MMI (multimetric index) scores of 3,420 temperate (USA) stream and river sites (Herlihy et al., 2020). Our results agree with those of Macedo et al.…”

Big data challenges in overcoming China’s water and air pollution: relevant data and indicators

“…The disclosure of information from EIAs is insufficient to support meaningful and robust public engagement. Conversely, in the USA, the NARS data are available for non-federal users to download, analyze, interpret, and publish as they wish, which greatly amplifies the usefulness and applications of the data (e.g., [ 9 , 13 , 28 ]). EPA electronic reporting and disclosure of large databases includes water pollution discharge monitoring reports and industry self-reported toxics release inventories.…”

Longitudinal patterns of fish assemblages in European boreal streams

“…Thereby, species richness and diversity should be highest in the middle reaches, where species from adjacent zones may co-occur (Lasne et al, 2007). However, relatively low species richness measured in the largest rivers may in some cases be explained by a low sampling effort in relation to the size of the habitat (Hughes et al, 2002;Erös 2007Erös , 2017 as well as extensive and intensive hydromorphological and water quality alterations (Rinne et al, 2005;Lintermans, 2007;Herlihy et al, 2020). Thienemann (1925) proposed six zones for European rivers: spring brook, trout zone, grayling zone, barbel zone, bream zone and brackish-water.…”