@article{01HNA5NY34RP4EVHVVZR6S50MQ,
  abstract     = {{Humans impact terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems, yet many broad-scale studies have found no systematic, negative biodiversity changes (for example, decreasing abundance or taxon richness). Here we show that mixed biodiversity responses may arise because community metrics show variable responses to anthropogenic impacts across broad spatial scales. We first quantified temporal trends in anthropogenic impacts for 1,365 riverine invertebrate communities from 23 European countries, based on similarity to least-impacted reference communities. Reference comparisons provide necessary, but often missing, baselines for evaluating whether communities are negatively impacted or have improved (less or more similar, respectively). We then determined whether changing impacts were consistently reflected in metrics of community abundance, taxon richness, evenness and composition. Invertebrate communities improved, that is, became more similar to reference conditions, from 1992 until the 2010s, after which improvements plateaued. Improvements were generally reflected by higher taxon richness, providing evidence that certain community metrics can broadly indicate anthropogenic impacts. However, richness responses were highly variable among sites, and we found no consistent responses in community abundance, evenness or composition. These findings suggest that, without sufficient data and careful metric selection, many common community metrics cannot reliably reflect anthropogenic impacts, helping explain the prevalence of mixed biodiversity trends.}},
  author       = {{Sinclair, James S. and Welti, Ellen A. R. and Altermatt, Florian and Álvarez-Cabria, Mario and Aroviita, Jukka and Baker, Nathan J. and Barešová, Libuše and Barquín, José and Bonacina, Luca and Bonada, Núria and Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel and Csabai, Zoltán and de Eyto, Elvira and Dohet, Alain and Dörflinger, Gerald and Eriksen, Tor E. and Evtimova, Vesela and Feio, Maria J. and Ferréol, Martial and Floury, Mathieu and Forio, Marie Anne Eurie and Fornaroli, Riccardo and Goethals, Peter and Heino, Jani and Hering, Daniel and Huttunen, Kaisa-Leena and Jähnig, Sonja C. and Johnson, Richard K. and Kuglerová, Lenka and Kupilas, Benjamin and L’Hoste, Lionel and Larrañaga, Aitor and Leitner, Patrick and Lorenz, Armin W. and McKie, Brendan G. and Muotka, Timo and Osadčaja, Diana and Paavola, Riku and Palinauskas, Vaidas and Pařil, Petr and Pilotto, Francesca and Polášek, Marek and Rasmussen, Jes J. and Schäfer, Ralf B. and Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid and Scotti, Alberto and Skuja, Agnija and Straka, Michal and Stubbington, Rachel and Timm, Henn and Tyufekchieva, Violeta and Tziortzis, Iakovos and Vannevel, Rudy and Várbíró, Gábor and Velle, Gaute and Verdonschot, Ralf C. M. and Vray, Sarah and Haase, Peter}},
  issn         = {{2397-334X}},
  journal      = {{NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION}},
  keywords     = {{Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,FRESH-WATER BIODIVERSITY,SPECIES RICHNESS,CONSERVATION,METAANALYSIS,TERRESTRIAL,DIVERSITY,MARINE,TRENDS,INVERTEBRATE,ASSEMBLAGES}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{430--441}},
  title        = {{Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02305-4}},
  volume       = {{8}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

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