Macroinvertebrate diversity and assessment of water quality in the area under the influence of mining activities in the Yaouré basin (Kossou, central of Côte d'Ivoire)

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Entomofaunal diversity and involvement in the diagnosis of water quality in Afridougou's Drébot Lake used for drinking water supply in Gagnoa (Centre-West, Côte d'Ivoire)

“…Where: pi represents the relative abundance of species i in the sample (pi = ni/N). J = H'/ log2 S. with S was the number of species in samples [9]. -The Self Organizing Maps (SOM) algorithm was used to order insects according to environmental variables and assemblages of aquatic insect taxa [8].…”