Recent metabarcoding work in European rivers, including our own studies of Mediterranean rivers Catalonia (Pérez-Burillo et al. 2020), has shown promising agreement between morphology- (LM) and DNA-based (HTS) assessments diatom periphyton for the Water Framework Directive. However, 10 out 164 Catalan sites we analysed, ecological status class was downgraded from “Good”/ “High” with LM to “Mode...

The past decade has seen growing appreciation of the role of regional influences in determining the structure of local communities. An emerging view among ecologists is that local community composition is controlled by acting of nested filters which select species with suitable traits for prevailing conditions, thus leading communities regulated by local environmental factors and regional, main...

Aquatic insects are the utmost generally employed macroinvertebrates in freshwater monitoring and assessment worldwide. However, aquatic have received far less attention for objectives of health water quality bioassessment, particularly Kalaburagi, Karnataka. This study examined abundance Bhosga reservoir their relationship to physicochemical factors. Water ecosystem had been assessed using BMW...