Deforestation and Benthic Indicators: How Much Vegetation Cover Is Needed to Sustain Healthy Andean Streams?

• Carlos Iñiguez–Armijos ,

  * E-mail: cainiguez@utpl.edu.ec

  Affiliations Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Sección de Ecología, Loja, Ecuador, Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus–Liebig–University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Adrián Leiva,

  Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Sección de Ecología, Loja, Ecuador

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• Hans–Georg Frede,

  Affiliation Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus–Liebig–University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Henrietta Hampel,

  Affiliation Universidad de Cuenca, Quinta Balzaín, Cuenca, Ecuador

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• Lutz Breuer

  Affiliation Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus–Liebig–University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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