Browsing School of Environment and Natural Resources by Subject "Macroinvertebrate"

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Does the exclusion of meiofauna affect the estimation of biotic indices using stream invertebrates?

Mbaka, John Gichimu; M’Erimba, Charles M; Karanja, Henry T; Mathooko, Jude M; Mwaniki, Mercy W (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

Biomonitoring of rivers is usually undertaken using information based on macroinvertebrate assemblages. However, exclusion of meiofauna (i.e. invertebrates less than 0.5 mm in size) when sorting benthic invertebrates can ...