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  1. Using River Insect Traits to Accurately Assess River Habitat Health

    Article • Ecological Informatics, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  2. Evaluating Mathematical Concordance Between Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Metrics in Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities

    Article • Biology, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor, Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez

  3. Limnological Characteristics and Relationships with Primary Productivity in Two High Andean Hydroelectric Reservoirs in Ecuador

    Article • Water, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  4. Selection of an adequate functional diversity index for stream assessment based on biological traits of macroinvertebrates

    Article • Ecological Indicators, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  5. Occurrence Prediction of Riffle Beetles (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in a Tropical Andean Basin of Ecuador Using Species Distribution Models

    Article • Biology, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  6. Implications of macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution for freshwater assessments using functional traits: The Paute River Basin (Ecuador) case

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  7. Multivariate-statistics based selection of a benthic macroinvertebrate index for assessing water quality in the Paute River basin (Ecuador)

    Article • Ecological Indicators, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor

  8. Water quality assessment with emphasis in parameter optimisation using pattern recognition methods and genetic algorithm

    Article • Water Research, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Raúl F. Vázquez, Dr. Gonzalo Sotomayor