Land Use Impacts on Local and Regional Freshwater Biodiversity Can Compromise Current Management Goals.

ABSTRACT: Land use and other anthropogenic activities are degrading freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity worldwide. Although results from long-term monitoring networks suggest that freshwater biodiversity may not be undergoing significant change, information about how freshwater biodiversity has changed and the effectiveness of current environmental goals remains limited. We used nationwide survey data of stream diatoms, macroinvertebrates, and lake diatoms, macroinvertebrates, and macrophytes to examine how land use has changed freshwater biodiversity in Finland and how effective good ecological status class, that is, the main environmental goal for freshwater ecosystems in the European Union, is for protecting biodiversity. We employed RIVPACS-type multitaxon distribution models with indep

SUBMITTER: Mykra H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519942 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature