What is it about?
We studied a benthic invertebrate assemblage of a stream that passes through pristine, rural, suburban and urban area areas of a municipality located in southeastern Brazil to investigate a possible relationship between this assemblage structure and urbanization
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Why is it important?
Studies that evaluate the effect of anthropogenic impacts due to urbanization near the freshwater bodies can provide data to support scientific and governmental actions aimed at the recovery and conservation of this essential good for human life as the quality of drinking water.
Perspectives
The area chosen for the development of the present study represents well the situation found in most municipalities of small to medium size, in which the main stressors of urbanization are disposals of domestic and animal origin. Not only the area, but also the choice of methodology used had as objective allows that sanitary agents of the municipalities use the results obtained and implement future measures to control and mitigate the effects of degradation.
Virginia Sanches Uieda
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de Botucatu
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This page is a summary of: How seasonality and anthropogenic impacts can modulate the structure of aquatic benthic invertebrate assemblages, Community Ecology, April 2017, Akademiai Kiado,
DOI: 10.1556/168.2017.18.1.6.
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