Diversity of aquatic plants and macroinvertebrates and their spatial patterns in a Himalayan Watershed, Central Nepal

• Published in: Aquatic botany Vol. 180; p. 103529
• Main Authors: Upadhyay, Kanchan Devi, Mainali, Janardan, Ghimire, Narayan Prasad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.08.2022
• Subjects: Aquatic plants; Bacillariophyceae; botany; Diptera; dissolved oxygen; electrical conductivity; human population; land cover; Landscape factors; landscapes; Macroinvertebrates; macrophytes; Moran’s Eigenvector Maps; Nepal; phytoplankton; population density; Potamogetonaceae; Redundancy analysis; species diversity; topography; Water quality; watersheds; Nepal; Landscape factors; Redundancy analysis; Water quality; Aquatic plants; Macroinvertebrates; Moran’s Eigenvector Maps

Spatial patterns of aquatic species are indicative of the quality of the in-stream water quality as well as that of the surrounding watershed. The relationships among aquatic species diversity, water quality, and watershed characteristics are not well explored in the Himalayan watershed. In this wor...