Peri-urban settlements are characterized by inadequate wastewater management. Decentralized wastewater management systems are promising alternatives for reducing pollution from untreated sewage entering receiving water bodies, but the social, economic, and environmental conditions in peri-urban settlements require careful technology selection to ensure sustainability. Several domestic wastewater technology selection tools exis...

Aim Contemporary dispersal constraints and environmental conditions are broadly recognized as significant drivers of beta diversity patterns. However, beta diversity patterns may also reflect the legacy of past climatic and geological events. In this study, we investigated the relative importance of historical and contemporary factors as drivers of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in Neotropical stream com...