An easy-to-use index of ecological integrity for prioritizing freshwater sites and for assessing habitat quality

By J. Simaika, M. Samways. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2009

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Adult Odonata conservatism as an indicator of freshwater wetland condition (2014, background): “Addiionally, the number of adult odonate species observed depends argely on the frequency and duration of surveys (Bried et al., 2012a; imaika and Samways, 2009).”
Analysis of urban impacts on aquatic habitats in the central Amazon basin: Adult odonates as bioindicators of environmental quality (2015, background): “Given this, the relative proportion of endemic to generalist species may be a useful parameter for the evaluation of the conservation status of an area (Simaika and Samways, 2009).”
The Diversity of Life in African Freshwaters: Under Water, Under Threat: An Analysis of the Status and Distribution of Freshwater Species throughout Mainland Africa (2011, methodology): “; Samways 2009); (2) The iUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment (current study) resulted in Red List assessments and a record database for all African species, as summarised in this report; (3) The Dragonfl y Biotic index (DBi) was developed in South Africa as a rapid environmental assessment tool ”