Land use and climate change are driving widespread modifications to the biodiverse and functionally unique headwaters of rivers. In temperate and boreal regions, many headwaters drain peatlands where land management and climate change can cause significant soil erosion and peat deposition in rivers. However, effects of peat deposition in river ecosystems remain poorly understood. We provide two lines of evidence—derived from sediment deposition gradients in experimental mesocosms (0–7.5 g/m2) and headwaters (0.82–9.67 g/m2)—for the adverse impact of peat deposition on invertebrate community biodiversity. We found a consistent negative effect of sediment deposition across both the experiment and survey; at the community level, decreases in d...
Fine sediment in streams and rivers is one of the most globally widespread of all freshwater polluta...
Separation of natural and anthropogenic influences is required to identify land-use impacts on strea...
Fine sediment is one of the major sources of stream physical and ecological impairment worldwide. We...
Land use and climate change are driving widespread modifications to the biodiverse and functionally ...
Sedimentation is a pervasive environmental pressure affecting rivers globally. Headwaters draining c...
Headwater streams are important habitats, unique in their heterogeneity and biodiversity. they are c...
1. Agricultural peatlands and their associated drainage systems are often highly managed and exposed...
Changes in catchment land-use and sedimentation have large ecological effects on rivers, but there i...
Drainage of peat-dominated catchments across the world has caused widespread degradation of peat and...
Abstract 1. Growing bioeconomy is increasing the pressure to clear-cut drained peatland forests. Ye...
Aim Freshwater biodiversity is declining world-wide as a result of human-caused degradation of fresh...
Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) have increased over the past few decades, causing f...
1. Anthropogenic activities can increase fine sediment supply to streams over multiple spatial and t...
Despite the widely acknowledged connection between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, the contribut...
Blanket peat catchments are important biodiversity refugia and are increasingly recognised for their...
Fine sediment in streams and rivers is one of the most globally widespread of all freshwater polluta...
Separation of natural and anthropogenic influences is required to identify land-use impacts on strea...
Fine sediment is one of the major sources of stream physical and ecological impairment worldwide. We...
Land use and climate change are driving widespread modifications to the biodiverse and functionally ...
Sedimentation is a pervasive environmental pressure affecting rivers globally. Headwaters draining c...
Headwater streams are important habitats, unique in their heterogeneity and biodiversity. they are c...
1. Agricultural peatlands and their associated drainage systems are often highly managed and exposed...
Changes in catchment land-use and sedimentation have large ecological effects on rivers, but there i...
Drainage of peat-dominated catchments across the world has caused widespread degradation of peat and...
Abstract 1. Growing bioeconomy is increasing the pressure to clear-cut drained peatland forests. Ye...
Aim Freshwater biodiversity is declining world-wide as a result of human-caused degradation of fresh...
Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) have increased over the past few decades, causing f...
1. Anthropogenic activities can increase fine sediment supply to streams over multiple spatial and t...
Despite the widely acknowledged connection between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, the contribut...
Blanket peat catchments are important biodiversity refugia and are increasingly recognised for their...
Fine sediment in streams and rivers is one of the most globally widespread of all freshwater polluta...
Separation of natural and anthropogenic influences is required to identify land-use impacts on strea...
Fine sediment is one of the major sources of stream physical and ecological impairment worldwide. We...