Charting a course for freshwater biomonitoring: The grand challenges identified by the global scientific community.

ABSTRACT: The past 50 years have seen biomonitoring emerge as an essential means of generating the knowledge needed to inform protection and restoration of freshwater ecosystems. Despite the successes of biomonitoring, most freshwater ecosystems remain unmonitored. Moreover, degradation of freshwaters continues at a rapid rate with new threats and novel stressors emerging that are difficult to assess using existing techniques. New technologies and techniques have been developed to improve biomonitoring, but application has been slow and integration with existing approaches is often problematic. Clearly, freshwater biomonitoring faces many important challenges that must be addressed to meet management needs of the coming decades. We identify Grand Challenges facing freshwater biomonitoring with the a

SUBMITTER: Yates AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12261523 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature