Negative effects of stagnation and drought on benthic invertebrate communities in lowland streams

Streams are extremely vulnerable to water abstraction across the world because of increasing water demand from humans, as well as because precipitation is decreasing in many areas. To determine how water abstraction affects water chemistry, hydromorphological variables and invertebrate assemblages, we conducted an experiment in which we mimicked two levels of disturbance: stagnation and drought. The experiment was performed at two lowland...