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Effect of Sieve Mesh Size on the Estimation of Benthic Invertebrate Abundance and Composition in the Honi River, Kenya
(Nature Kenya/East African Natural History Society, 2014)
Characterisation of benthic invertebrate communities, taxonomic abundance and
composition provides information that is used during river bioassessment.
However, the mesh size of the sieves used during processing of ...
Monitoring water and habitat quality in six rivers draining the Mt. Kenya and Aberdare Catchments using Macroinvertebrates and Qualitative Habitat Scoring
(2014)
The study was conducted in June and September 2011 in six rivers that drain
Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare catchments, i.e. Honi, Naro Moru, Liki,
Sirimon, Mariara and Karigu. The main objective was to determine the
ecological ...
Methane-Derived Carbon in the Benthic Food Web in Stream Impoundments
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Methane gas (CH4) has been identified as an important alternative source of carbon and energy in some freshwater food
webs. CH4 is oxidized by methane oxidizing bacteria (MOB), and subsequently utilized by chironomid ...