LEADER 05256nam 2201345z- 450 001 9910619467403321 005 20240208210220.0 010 $a3-0365-4942-0 035 $a(CKB)5670000000391600 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93187 035 $a(EXLCZ)995670000000391600 100 $a20202210d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAquatic Insects$eBiodiversity, Ecology and Conservation Challenges 210 $cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2022 215 $a1 electronic resource (240 p.) 311 $a3-0365-4941-2 330 $aInsects have successfully inhabited all freshwater habitats on Earth and are often the most diverse and abundant species in streams and ponds. With a disproportionally high species richness compared to the area covered by freshwaters, aquatic insects represent a hotspot of diversity. They play crucial roles in aquatic food webs as primary consumers, detritivores, and predators, but they also represent an important food resource for aquatic and terrestrial predators. Many aquatic insect orders, such as mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies, include taxa that are highly sensitive to habitat alterations, reflecting the health of the overall aquatic ecosystem. This feature is exploited by many scientists and practitioners around the world for water and environment quality monitoring. Despite their importance in term of diversity, ecosystem services and bioindication, many aquatic insect species are critically endangered, mainly due to anthropogenic pressures on freshwaters and climate change. Although the research efforts on aquatic insects tremendously increased during the 21st century, much is still left undiscovered. This Special Issue addresses existing knowledge gaps and increases our understanding of taxonomic diversity and phylogeny, distribution patterns, and community ecology of aquatic insects through 15 new studies that cover most of the aquatic insect orders over a wide geographic range. In a context of rapid global biodiversity loss, accelerating the acquisition of both fundamental and applied knowledge is crucial. 517 $aAquatic Insects 606 $aResearch & information: general$2bicssc 606 $aBiology, life sciences$2bicssc 606 $aEcological science, the Biosphere$2bicssc 610 $aodonate 610 $aflight period 610 $achecklist 610 $aEastern Mediterranean 610 $acitizen science 610 $aclimate 610 $awater quality 610 $afunctional richness 610 $afunctional specialization 610 $afunctional evenness 610 $aimpact of mining and forest fire 610 $aaquatic insects 610 $aconservation 610 $alife cycle 610 $alimnology 610 $amayfly 610 $aNorth Africa 610 $arivers 610 $astreams 610 $adeveloping country 610 $amultivariate statistics 610 $abioindication value 610 $aindex scores 610 $aWQI 610 $aHQI 610 $aEPT 610 $astoneflies 610 $aUSA 610 $aspecies richness 610 $ahierarchical unit codes 610 $aflow intermittence 610 $aenvironmental variables 610 $aaquatic macrophytes 610 $akarst 610 $adragonflies 610 $adamselflies 610 $aanthropogenic impact 610 $adistribution 610 $alocal extinction 610 $amuseum study 610 $aPlecoptera 610 $apopulation decline 610 $aisland biogeography 610 $anew species 610 $ataxonomy 610 $abiodiversity 610 $acolonization 610 $aendemism 610 $aspecies radiation 610 $adiving beetles 610 $afreshwater 610 $achironomid larvae 610 $awater pollution index (WPI) 610 $aalpha and beta diversity 610 $aanthropogenic pressure 610 $ataxonomic diversity 610 $asubstrate preference 610 $aDanube 610 $afloodplain 610 $agomphid nymphs 610 $aOrientogomphus 610 $aThailand 610 $aHeteroptera 610 $aaquatic 610 $aspecies compositions 610 $amarine insects 610 $aHemiptera 610 $abiogeography 610 $aRif 610 $aAtlas 610 $aCentral Plateau 610 $aOriental Morocco 610 $amayflies 610 $aphylogenomics 610 $aphylogenetics 610 $asystematics 615 7$aResearch & information: general 615 7$aBiology, life sciences 615 7$aEcological science, the Biosphere 700 $aVilenica$b Marina$4edt$01286290 702 $aYanai$b Zohar$4edt 702 $aVuataz$b Laurent$4edt 702 $aVilenica$b Marina$4oth 702 $aYanai$b Zohar$4oth 702 $aVuataz$b Laurent$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910619467403321 996 $aAquatic Insects$93019861 997 $aUNINA