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Development of Macroinvertebrate Multimetric Index for Assessment of Large Rivers in Thailand
Human activities are a significant threat to the health of river ecosystems, especially in develo** countries. In Thailand, benthic...
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Distribution of macroinvertebrates in Ceyhan River Basin (Turkey) and determination of environmental quality by Multimetric Index
In the present study, the distribution of macroinvertebrates among 44 sites in the Ceyhan River Basin and the determination of the ecological status...
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Mt. Apo Biotic Index (MABI): a macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index for assessing stream biotic integrity of wadeable streams within a geothermal production field in Mindanao, Philippines
Monitoring the ecological integrity of streams is a challenge, especially in the tropics, which experience high rates of degradation. Multimetric...
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Development of lake macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index for monitoring ecological health in North Central Nigeria
The use of organisms like macroinvertebrates in develo** bioassessment tools, such as multimetric indices (MMIs), is gaining global recognition in...
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A new diatom-based multimetric index to assess lake ecological status
Eutrophication impairs lake ecosystems at a global scale. In this context, as benthic microalgae are well-established warnings for a large range of...
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Development of a macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index for biological assessment of streams in the Sakarya River Basin, Turkey
The present study aimed to develop a multimetric index as a biological indication method of water quality using benthic macroinvertebrates for...
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Assessing the health of forested riverine systems in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria: a macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index approach
Forested catchments surround most of the riverine systems in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. Presently, there are no biomonitoring tools to assess...
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Non-relativistic and ultra-relativistic scaling limits of multimetric gravity
We present a method of contraction that can be applied to re-construct the recent extended non-relativistic and ultra-relativistic algebras as well...
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A review of the application of the macroinvertebrate-based multimetric indices (MMIs) for water quality monitoring in lakes
The increasing stress on lake ecosystems is affecting their functioning such as providing goods and services to inhabiting organisms and riparian...
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Nonnative Species Limitation of Floristic Quality Scores in Wetland Mitigation Performance and Multimetric Health assessment
Nonnative species have minimum ecological conservatism that invariably limits floristic quality scores. This means nonnative species could prevent...
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Development of a macroinvertebrate-based biotic index to assess water quality of rivers in Niger State, North Central Ecoregion of Nigeria
The increasing pollution of lotic ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Nigeria, poses a threat to water quality, public health and...
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Multimetric feature selection for analyzing multicategory outcomes of colorectal cancer: random forest and multinomial logistic regression models
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and a leading cause of cancer deaths. Better classifying multicategory outcomes...
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Impoverished fish assemblages of temperate Neotropical streams respond to environmental degradation and support a sensitive Index of Biotic Integrity
Fish as bioindicators are a widely used tool for environmental monitoring of freshwater ecosystems worldwide. However, its adaptation to temperate...
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Principles to develop a simplified multimetric index for the assessment of the ecological status of Armenian rivers on example of the Arpa River system
The Government of the Republic of Armenia (RA) strives to ensure the measures to achieve good ecological status for Armenian surface water bodies....
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Probing river health status: a study based on index of biotic integrity (IBI) in Tapti River of Deccan plateau, India
Anthropogenic activities impacted the ecological health of rivers by altering the physical habitat and water flow as well as by pollution. Monitoring...
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An Analysis of Hydromorphological Index for Rivers (HIR) Model Components, Based on a Hydromorphological Assessment of Watercourses in the Central European Plain
Assessing the hydromorphological conditions of watercourses is a requirement of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and national river status...
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A new WFD—compliant littoral macroinvertebrate index for monitoring and assessment of Mediterranean lakes (HeLLBI)
A new multimetric index (HeLLBI) based on littoral benthic macroinvertebrates is presented in this paper for classification of Greek natural lakes,...
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ZIPLAS: Zooplankton Index for Polish Lakes’ Assessment: a new method to assess the ecological status of stratified lakes
Zooplankton is widely recognized as a key component of pelagic ecosystems and forms the basis for major trophic webs. Although zooplankton has often...
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The coastal plain headwater stream restoration (CP-HStR) index: a macroinvertebrate index for assessing the biological effectiveness of stream restoration in the Georgia coastal plain, USA
Stream restoration projects undertaken as compensatory mitigation pursuant to Sect. 404 of the U.S. Clean Water Act must be evaluated using...
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Is it possible to optimise the labour and time intensity of diatom analyses for determination of the Polish Diatom Indices (IO, IOJ)?
Diatom-based indices are a recommended approach in the assessment of the ecological status of lakes and rivers, required by the EU Water Framework...
