Assessing the Ecological Status of European Rivers and Lakes Using Benthic Invertebrate Communities: A Practical Catalogue of Metrics and Methods

A Metacommunity Approach to Improve Biological Assessments in Highly Dynamic Freshwater Ecosystems

(2020) Núria Cid et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems

(2020) Sebastian Birk et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Assessment of stream macroinvertebrate communities with eDNA is not congruent with tissue‐based metabarcoding

(2020) Jennifer Erin Gleason et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

European aquatic ecological assessment methods: A critical review of their sensitivity to key pressures

(2020) Sandra Poikane et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Morphological vs. DNA metabarcoding approaches for the evaluation of stream ecological status with benthic invertebrates: Testing different combinations of markers and strategies of data filtering

(2020) Albin Meyer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Multiple stressor effects on benthic macroinvertebrates in very large European rivers – A typology-based evaluation of faunal responses as a basis for future bioassessment

(2020) P. Leitner et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Predicting biochemical oxygen demand in European freshwater bodies

(2019) Olga Vigiak et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Metabarcoding of storage ethanol vs. conventional morphometric identification in relation to the use of stream macroinvertebrates as ecological indicators in forest management

(2019) Maitane Erdozain et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Relationship between ecological condition and ecosystem services in European rivers, lakes and coastal waters

(2019) B. Grizzetti et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Multiple threats imperil freshwater biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2019) David Dudgeon   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Studying Ecosystems With DNA Metabarcoding: Lessons From Biomonitoring of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates

(2019) Alex Bush et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Increased performance of DNA metabarcoding of macroinvertebrates by taxonomic sorting

(2019) Kevin K. Beentjes et al.   PLoS One

Exploring longitudinal trends and recovery gradients in macroinvertebrate communities and biomonitoring tools along regulated rivers

(2019) Andrés Mellado-Díaz et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Modelling outperforms typologies for establishing reference conditions of boreal lake and stream invertebrate assemblages

(2018) Richard K. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Disentangling the response of lake littoral invertebrate assemblages to multiple pressures

(2018) Richard K. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems

(2018) Jan Pawlowski et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

(2018) Andrea J. Reid et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive

(2018) Laurence Carvalho et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Diagnosing the causes of river deterioration using stressor-specific metrics

(2018) Jan U. Lemm et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Risk to the supply of ecosystem services across aquatic ecosystems

(2018) Fiona Culhane et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Additive effects prevail: The response of biota to multiple stressors in an intensively monitored watershed

(2017) Alexander Gieswein et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Integrating ecosystem services into conservation strategies for freshwater and marine habitats: a review

(2016) Andrew J. Boulton et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences

(2015) Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A hitchhiker's guide to European lake ecological assessment and intercalibration

(2015) Sandra Poikane et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Net effects of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: a meta-analysis

(2015) Michelle C. Jackson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A multimetric index based on benthic macroinvertebrates for assessing the ecological status of streams and rivers in central and southeast highlands of Ethiopia

(2015) Aschalew Lakew et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Can DNA-Based Ecosystem Assessments Quantify Species Abundance? Testing Primer Bias and Biomass—Sequence Relationships with an Innovative Metabarcoding Protocol

(2015) Vasco Elbrecht et al.   PLoS One

An extended Benthic Quality Index for assessment of lake profundal macroinvertebrates: addition of indicator taxa by multivariate ordination and weighted averaging

(2014) Jussi Jyväsjärvi et al.   Freshwater Science

Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystem Services: A Global Perspective

(2013) Walter K. Dodds et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A trait-based approach to assess the vulnerability of European aquatic insects to climate change

(2013) Lorenza Conti et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Sustainable development goals for people and planet

(2013) David Griggs et al.   NATURE

Intercalibrating classifications of ecological status: Europe's quest for common management objectives for aquatic ecosystems

(2013) S. Birk et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Using conditional tree forests and life history traits to assess specific risks of stream degradation under multiple pressure scenario

(2013) Cédric P. Mondy et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Ecological assessment of running waters: Do macrophytes, macroinvertebrates, diatoms and fish show similar responses to human pressures?

(2012) Anahita Marzin et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Stressor prioritisation in riverine ecosystems: Which environmental factors shape benthic invertebrate assemblage metrics?

(2012) Andrea Sundermann et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Hydromorphological degradation impact on benthic invertebrates in large rivers in Slovenia

(2012) Gorazd Urbanič   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Biomonitoring 2.0: a new paradigm in ecosystem assessment made possible by next-generation DNA sequencing

(2012) DONALD J. BAIRD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The European reference condition concept: A scientific and technical approach to identify minimally-impacted river ecosystems

(2012) Isabel Pardo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive

(2011) Sebastian Birk et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

THE IMPACT OF FINE SEDIMENT ON MACRO-INVERTEBRATES

(2011) J. I. Jones et al.   RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Comparing the sensitivity of diverse macroinvertebrate metrics to a multiple stressor gradient in Mediterranean streams and its influence on the assessment of ecological status

(2010) M.M. Sánchez-Montoya et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Nutrient optima and tolerances of benthic invertebrates, the effects of taxonomic resolution and testing of selected metrics in lakes using an extensive European data base

(2008) C. O’Toole et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

A Priori Typology-Based Prediction of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Fauna for Ecological Classification of Rivers

(2008) Jukka Aroviita et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Individual and combined responses of stream ecosystems to multiple stressors

(2008) Colin R. Townsend et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY