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| The future of freshwater biodiversity research : an introduction to the target review / H. Segers | |
| The study of biodiversity in freshwater habitats : societal relevance and suggestions for priorities in science policy / L. De Meester, S. Declerck | 1 |
| Biodiversity : a resource with a monetary value? / H. J. Dumont | 11 |
| Linking science and policy for biodiversity / A. Franklin | 15 |
| Relevance and policy dimensions of research on biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems : a developing country perspective / B. Gopal | 19 |
| Conservation of freshwater biodiversity : does the real world meet scientific dreams? / C. Leveque, E. V. Balian | 23 |
| Taxonomy and systematics in biodiversity research / K. Martens, H. Segers | 27 |
| Future priorities in science policy for biodiversity studies : a comment on the target review by Luc De Meester and Steven Declerck / C. Sturmbauer | 33 |
| Towards a coherent and high-quality science policy on biodiversity / A. Van der Werf | 35 |
| An assessment of animal species diversity in continental waters / C. Leveque, E. V. Balian, K. Martens | 39 |
| Does inland aquatic biodiversity have a future in Asian developing countries? / B. Gopal | 69 |
| Recovery in diversity of fish and invertebrate communities following remediation of a polluted stream : investigating causal relationships / S. M. Adams, M. G. Ryon,J. G. Smith | 77 |
| Ecological remarks on mastigodiaptomus nessus Bowman, 1986 (Copepoda : Calanoida) in a Mexican karstic sinkhole / A. Cervantes-Martinez, M. Elias-Gutierrez, M. A. Gutierrez-Aguirre, A. A. Kotov | 95 |
| Consumptive and non-consumptive effects of turbellarian (Mesostoma sp.) predation on anostracans / E. R. M. De Roeck, T. Artois, L. Brendonck | 103 |
| Changes in functional biodiversity in an invaded freshwater ecosystem : the Moselle River / S. Devin, J.-N. Beisel, P. Usseglio-Polatera, J.-C. Moreteau | 113 |
| The impact of stocking on the genetic structure of European grayling (Thymallus thymallus, Salmonidae) in two alpine rivers / N. Duftner, S. Koblmuller, S. Weiss, N. Medgyesy, C. Sturmbauer | 121 |
| Connectivity and nestedness of the meta-community structure of moss dwelling bdelloid rotifers along a stream / D. Fontaneto, G. Melone, C. Ricci | 131 |
| Implications of taxonomic modifications and alien species on biological water quality assessment as exemplified by the Belgian biotic index method / W. Gabriels, P. L. M. Goethals, N. De Pauw | 137 |
| A large-scale stream benthic diatom database / V. Gosselain, M. Coste, S. Campeau, L. Ector, C. Fauville, F. Delmas, M. Knoflacher, M. Licursi, F. Rimet, J. Tison, L. Tudesque, J.-P. Descy | 151 |
| A review on the present status and management of mangrove wetland habitat resources in Bangladesh with emphasis on mangrove fisheries and aquaculture / Md. S. Islam, Md. A. Wahab, Md. M. Haque, M. Tanaka | 165 |
| Coexistence of two similar copepod species, Eudiaptomus gracilis and E. graciloides : the role of differential predator avoidance / C. D. Jamieson | 191 |
| Native and exotic Amphipoda and other Percarida in the River Meuse : new assemblages emerge from a fast changing fauna / G. Josens, A. B. de Vaate, P. Usseglio-Polatera, R. Cammaerts, F. Cherot, F. Grisez, P. Verboonen, J.-P. V. Bossche | 203 |
| Phylogeography and speciation in the Pseudocrenilabrus philander species complex in Zambian rivers / C. Katongo, S. Koblmuller, N. Duftner, L. Makasa, C. Sturmbauer | 221 |
| Spatial and temporal variation of phytoplankton in a shallow tropical oligotrophic reservoir, southeast Brazil / M. R. M. Lopes, C. E. de M. Bicudo, C. Ferragut | 235 |
| The female reproductive organ in podocopid ostracods is homologous to five appendages : histological evidence from Liocypris grandis (Crustacea, Ostracoda) /R. Matzke-Karasz, K. Martens | 249 |
| Daphnia species diversity in Kenya, and a key to the identification of their ephippia / J. Mergeay, D. Verschuren, L. De Meester | 261 |
| Some aspects of water filtering activity of filter-feeders / S. A. Ostroumov | 275 |
| Recent ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda) found in lowland springs of the provinces of Piacenza and Parma (Northern Italy) / G. Rossetti, V. Pieri, K. Martens | 287 |
| Representation of aquatic invertebrate communities in subfossil death assemblages sampled along a salinity gradient of western Uganda crater lakes / B. Rumes, H. Eggermont, D. Verschuren | 297 |
| Life history strategies of cladocerans : comparisons of tropical and temperate taxa / S. S. S. Sarma, S. Nandini, R. D. Gulati | 315 |
| Phylogeographic history of the genus Tropheus, a lineage of rock-dwelling cichild fishes endemic to Lake Tanganyika / C. Sturmbauer, S. Koblmuller, K. M. Sefc,N. Duftner | 335 |
| Plankton richness in a eutrophic reservoir (Barra Bonita Reservoir, SP, Brazil) / T. M. Tundisi, J. G. Tundisi | 367 |
| The effect of turbidity state and microhabitat on macroinvertebrate assemblages : a pilot study of six shallow lakes / F. V. de Meutter, R. Stoks, L. De Meester | 379 |