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Background Good water management is necessary for human development to be sustainable: factors affecting rivers have led to the disappearance or decline of important species and to a loss of biodiversity. Water management, in particular, requires the protection and conservation of species that are reliable indicators of the ecological status of rivers. Th ...

Background The ecological importance and the functional key role of headwater hydrosystems are very often underestimated and largely unknown. Four major species of community interest covered by the Habitats Directive are linked to those hydrosystems: the white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifer ...