Biomonitoring of Freshwater Ecosystems

Dear Colleagues,

Freshwater ecosystems play a vital role in sustaining ecosystem services that are vital to human well-being. With increased pressure from land use and climate change, these ecosystems are altered at a rapid pace. There is a critical need to assess the state and changes in these systems for conservation and management. Biomonitoring provides us with a cost-effective and reliable way of assessing these changes in freshwater systems. This is because of using specific endpoints that are sensitive to disturbances. This Special Issue calls for papers on biomonitoring in freshwater systems, which could include bioindicators for biodiversity assessment, climate change impacts, land use stressors, organismal responses, habitat suitability indices, sensitivity scoring methods, sampling design, systems assessment, watershed studies, macroinvertebrate surveys, toxicity assessment, experimental methods, community assessments, biomonitoring for management, instrumentation, and biomonitoring design.

Dr. Timothy O. Randhir
Guest Editor

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