Instructions to follow (important)

It should be written in the style of a scientific journal research article with an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, references section. Choose a relevant journal and follow the instructions for authors online guidelines in writing. You must attach the instructions for authors guidelines in the appendix at the end.

The main text must be no more than 5000 words for the research article (excluding references, legends and tabular content) and should comprise in the following order:

  • Abstract: The abstract should be a factual condensation of the entire paper, including a statement of purpose, summary of methods used, results and a concise presentation of conclusions. The abstract must not exceed 350 words. References to cited literature should not be included.
  • Introduction: this section should specifically state the aim and research hypothesis your project addresses within the context of the literature and field of study.
  • Materials: this section should be sufficient to allow an experienced researcher to exactly repeat your experiments. Except where otherwise required by the nature of the text, adopt a concise impersonal style sufficient to convey all essential information without ambiguity, e.g. “…and 5ml of Reagent A was pipetted…” rather than “… and I took the red bottle containing Reagent A from the shelf and I measured 5ml of this in a E-mil 5ml pipette and I added this to…”.
  • Results: this section should summarise the key findings referring to the data presented in the figures and the results of your statistical analysis
  • Discussion: this section should summarise the meaning of the data(data will be added in the files area, please build graphs and create comparing tables of it) in the context of current knowledge drawing from the literature you have reviewed. It should also include some discussion of further work based on your findings.

The dissolution questions are the following:

  • What are the importance of conducting river restoration? (Go deeper in explaining this question)
  • How does the restoration works and what damage does it leave?
  • What adjustments has been taken from aquatic invertebrates to remain alive?
  • How is restoration related to abiotic factors such as: (dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH level and conductivity)?
  • Mention a type/kind of fish that lives in the river and explain its life cycle with and without restoration based on a scientific study.
  • Conclusion: (if needed) this section forms a concise summary of the key findings
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Appendix

Notes:

Please focus on the following:

Overall Aim: To evaluate the benthic macroinvertebrate community following the restoration of the river Ouse in Sheffield Park.

Objectives

  • compare macroinvertebrate community before and after the restoration project focusing on diversity and abundance
  • compare abiotic factors across the survey period
  • evaluate the ecological and water health of the river Ouse stretch (focusing on BMWP, ASPT, EP, LIFE scores as well as functional feeding groups) across the sampling period

Discussion of results in context of observed changes (in any) in regard to communities changes; bio-indicators and water quality.

Please do build graphs and compare between data from each 2 years with the Excel file I have attached in the files area.