1. The development of an assessment system to evaluate the ecological status of rivers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: introduction to the special feature

   • I. Stubauer
   • D. Hering
   • O. Moog

   RIVERS IN THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYA 16 May 2010 Pages: 1 - 15

2. Adding value to water resource management through biological assessment of rivers

   • Michael T. Barbour
   • Michael J. Paul

   RIVERS IN THE HINDU KUSH–HIMALAYA 15 May 2010 Pages: 17 - 24

   

3. “HKH screening”: a field bio-assessment to evaluate the ecological status of streams in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region

   • Anne Hartmann
   • Otto Moog
   • Ilse Stubauer

   RIVERS IN THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYA 16 May 2010 Pages: 25 - 37

   

4. Development of the HKHbios: a new biotic score to assess the river quality in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya

   • Thomas Ofenböck
   • Otto Moog
   • Thomas Korte

   RIVERS IN THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYA 15 May 2010 Pages: 39 - 58

   

5. Assessing river ecological quality using benthic macroinvertebrates in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region

   • Thomas Korte
   • Abul Basar Mohammad Baki
   • Daniel Hering

   RIVERS IN THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYA 16 May 2010 Pages: 59 - 76

   

6. Current and substrate preferences of benthic invertebrates in the rivers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region as indicators of hydromorphological degradation

   • Thomas Korte

   RIVERS IN THE HINDU KUSH-HIMALAYA 16 May 2010 Pages: 77 - 91

   

7. Species-specific effects of gastropods on leaf litter processing in pond mesocosms

   • Joseph K. Brady
   • Andrew M. Turner

   Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 93 - 100

   

8. Selection of indicative taxa for river habitats: a case study on benthic macroinvertebrates using indicator species analysis and the random forest methods

   • Klara Kubosova
   • Karel Brabec
   • Vit Syrovatka

   Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 101 - 114

   

9. The role of the predatory trahira (Pisces: Erythrinidae) in structuring fish assemblages in lakes of a Neotropical floodplain

   • Ana Cristina Petry
   • Luiz Carlos Gomes
   • Angelo Antonio Agostinho

   Primary research paper 15 May 2010 Pages: 115 - 126

   

10. Longitudinal trends and discontinuities in nutrients, chlorophyll, and suspended solids in the Upper Mississippi River: implications for transport, processing, and export by large rivers

    • Jeffrey N. Houser
    • David W. Bierman
    • Lori A. Soeken-Gittinger

    Primary research paper 16 May 2010 Pages: 127 - 144

    

11. Spatial and temporal variation in invertebrate consumer diets in forested and herbaceous wetlands

    • Alani N. Taylor
    • Darold P. Batzer

    Primary Research Paper 04 June 2010 Pages: 145 - 159

    

12. Does predation by the introduced rainbow trout cascade down to detritus and algae in a forested small stream in Patagonia?

    • Leonardo Buria
    • Ricardo Albariño
    • Esteban Balseiro

    Primary research paper 16 May 2010 Pages: 161 - 172

    

13. The spatial heterogeneity of diatoms in eight southeastern Ohio streams: how far does a single riffle reach?

    • Emily K. Hollingsworth
    • Morgan L. Vis

    Primary research paper 25 May 2010 Pages: 173 - 184

    

14. Similar distribution pattern of different phenotypes of Limnocythere inopinata (Baird) in a brackish-water lake in Inner Mongolia

    • Dayou Zhai
    • Jule Xiao
    • Qiqing Pang

    Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 185 - 197

    

15. Resolving taxonomic uncertainties using molecular systematics: Salmo dentex and the Balkan trout community

    • Aleš Snoj
    • Branko Glamuzina
    • Simona Sušnik

    Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 199 - 212

    

16. Variation of life traits of glass eels of Anguilla anguilla (L.) during the colonization of Ríos Nalón and Minho estuaries (northwestern Iberian Peninsula)

    • Tania Iglesias
    • Javier Lobón-Cerviá
    • Carlos Antunes

    Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 213 - 223

    

17. Effects of nutrients on growth of the red-tide dinoflagellate Gyrodinium instriatum Freudenthal et Lee and a possible link to blooms of this species

    • Sou Nagasoe
    • Tomoyuki Shikata
    • Tsuneo Honjo

    Primary research paper 25 May 2010 Pages: 225 - 238

    

18. Temporal variability of benthic algal δ¹³C signatures influences assessments of carbon flows in stream food webs

    • Wade L. Hadwen
    • Mark Spears
    • Mark J. Kennard

    Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 239 - 251

    

19. Water level fluctuations may decrease phosphate adsorption capacity of the sediment in oligotrophic high mountain lakes

    • Inmaculada de Vicente
    • Frede Østergaard Andersen
    • Henning Skovgaard Jensen

    Primary research paper 20 May 2010 Pages: 253 - 264

    

20. Changes in the nutritional quality of decaying leaf litter in a stream based on fatty acid content

    • Monica Torres-Ruiz
    • John D. Wehr

    Primary research paper 25 May 2010 Pages: 265 - 278

    

21. Structure and dynamics of stream fish communities in the flood zone of the lower Purus River, Amazonas State, Brazil

    • Fábio R. Silva
    • Efrem J. G. Ferreira
    • Cláudia P. de Deus

    Primary research paper 04 June 2010 Pages: 279 - 289

    

22. Feeding preferences of the sandhopper Orchestoidea tuberculata: the importance of algal traits

    • C. Duarte
    • J. M. Navarro
    • I. Gómez

    Primary research paper 12 June 2010 Pages: 291 - 303

    

23. Abundance and ecological significance of the clam Rangia cuneata (Sowerby, 1831) in the upper Barataria Estuary (Louisiana, USA)

    • Wai Hing Wong
    • Nancy N. Rabalais
    • R. Eugene Turner

    Primary research paper 04 June 2010 Pages: 305 - 315

    

24. May parthenogenesis in Artemia be attributed to Wolbachia?

    • Stefania Maniatsi
    • Kostas Bourtzis
    • Theodore J. Abatzopoulos

    Short research note 25 May 2010 Pages: 317 - 322

    

25. Erratum to: Effects of fish farming on plankton structure in a Brazilian tropical reservoir

    • Paula A. F. Borges
    • Sueli Train
    • Cláudia C. Bonecker

    Erratum 21 May 2010 Pages: 323 - 323