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Many lowland rivers in Western Europe have been substantially modified to aid land drainage and support the intensification of agriculture. Although t...
Read moreCatchment-scale effects of forestry practices alter stream physical structures and influence composition and abundance of benthic communities. Looking...
Read moreThere is a strong economic interest in commercial deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules and therefore a need to define suitable preservation zones i...
Read moreRiparian forest harvesting impacts streams in many ways, from altering temperature regimes, shifting geomorphic structure, increasing sediment fluxes ...
Read moreBottom trawling is the most widespread human activity directly affecting seabed habitats. Assessment and effective management of the effects of bottom...
Read moreAn apparatus is described for separating benthic insects (such as Chironomids, Ephemeroptera and some Trichoptera and Plecoptera) from detritus. Separ...
Read moreMany ecosystems are influenced simultaneously by multiple stressors, and the consequences of stressors are often unpredictable on the basis of knowled...
Read moreManagers must understand the effects of stressors on ecosystems in order to identify thresholds of harm but, to be meaningful, thresholds will usually...
Read moreThe nets used in bottom trawl fisheries cause mortality of benthic invertebrates and this can decrease the long-term availability of prey to exploited...
Read moreEcologists and managers need to understand what types of communities emerge with continued human alterations to ecosystems against a background of nat...
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