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Discussion
The effect of physico-chemical parameters on
invertebrate species abundance and diversity
According to the results, the diversity and distribution
of aquatic invertebrates in the Mwekera stream were
influenced by severally physico-chemical parameters.
These parameters basically did explain the diversity of
invertebrates along the Mwekera stream.
Conductivity varied significantly across sampling
sites, and decreased successively from sit S1 to S10.
Sit S1 and S2 had high conductivity because they
were exposed to land erosion. Furthermore, it is
argued elsewhere that conductivity can be influenced
