A benthic invertebrates-based biotic index to assess the ecological status of West African Sahel Rivers, Burkina Faso

Kaboré, Idrissa; Ouéda, Adama; Moog, Otto; Meulenbroek, Paul; Tampo, Lallébila; Bancé, Victor; Melcher, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114503

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“…Therefore, the formulation and use of indices have been strongly advocated by agencies [1]. Furthermore, once the WQIs are developed and applied, they serve as a convenient tool to examine trends, and to highlight specific environmental conditions [10,11], and to help governmental decision makers in monitoring the effectiveness of regulatory programs.…”

Section: Concept Of Water Qualitymentioning

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“…The environmental indices have also been used in life cycle assessment [13] and to characterize different types of environmental damages, including global warming. However, the major component of environmental indices including water quality indices (WQIs) is used as communication tool by regulatory agencies to describe the "quality" or "health" of water/aquatic ecosystems [10,11], as well as to assess the impact of regulatory policies on various environmental management practices [14,15]. The water quality indices provide a simple method for expressing the quality of water or the health of aquatic ecosystem.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment Using Water Quality Indices in West Africa: Challenge and Perspectives

Tampo¹,

Kaboré²,

Mande³

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Water Quality - New Perspectives

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“Water quality is health” as it is said, “water is life.” The water quality and aquatic ecosystem health assessment is essential for early detection of water habitat degradation and overall aquatic ecosystem disturbances. All water management programs/agencies need simple and cheaper tools for water quality assessment. However, in West Africa there is an urgent need of water quality assessment tools, as far they are very limited. This chapter presents water quality indices as simple and cost-effective tool to monitor water quality. We explore the categories of water quality indices (WQIs), their use/application, and their scope in West African countries. We found that some multimetric indices (MMIs) are developed in West Africa, but they are not well known/used by local water managers and decision makers. There are not yet biotic indices (BIs) and physicochemical water quality indices (PCQWIs) typical to Western African countries areas, but most of them are applied/adapted to meet the needs of West African water quality and ecosystem health assessment. In this chapter, we present the results of some studies led in some West African countries regarding water quality indices (MMIs, BIs, PCWQIs), and address challenges and perspectives for long-term management of water and biological resources in developing countries.

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Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment Using Water Quality Indices in West Africa: Challenge and Perspectives

Tampo¹,

Kaboré²,

Mande³

et al. 2024

Water Quality - New Perspectives

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“…The candidate metrics are further tested for selecting the core metrics to avoid over-representation of a single group of organisms in the index (Blocksom et al 2002;Edegbene et al 2019 ). The core metrics should include all of the distinct measure categories; metrics that have a high degree of correlation (Spearman's, r > 0.8) with one another are deemed redundant (Kaboré et al 2022). To lessen the effects of any outliers, increase responsiveness, and decrease the variability of the MMIs, metric values are rescaled between the 5th and 95th percentiles (Blocksom 2002;Stoddard et al 2008).…”

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A review of the application of the Macroinvertebrate-based Multimetric Index (MMI) for water quality monitoring in lakes

Ndatimana

Nantege

Arimoro

2022

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The increasing stress on lake ecosystems is affecting their functioning such as providing goods and services to inhabiting organisms and riparian communities. Monitoring of water quality is important for sustainable management and restoration of lake ecosystems. However, the costs associated with traditional approaches have become prohibitive while not giving reliable early warning signals on resource conditions. Therefore, the current shift in the use of bioindicators and multimetric indices (MMIs) in the monitoring of water quality is currently gaining global recognition with more emphasis on its application in lotic ecosystems. Therefore, this paper provides an elaborated insight into the application of macroinvertebrate-based MMIs in lentic ecosystems and the successes achieved so far. The various metrics and indices, the development strategies, application challenges, the use of macroinvertebrates as bioindicators, and the future projection of enhancing MMI usage in lentic environment monitoring particularly in developing countries are extensively covered. The use of MMI as a rapid lake biomonitoring tool needs to be adopted for sustainable applications in lake ecosystem management and as an integrated approach to monitoring human-induced stress especially in developing countries where there is a paucity of information.

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“…Promoting different approaches using benthic macroinvertebrates in bioassessment through multimetric and scoring systems could be extended to natural wetland, as far they include several water bodies types (e.g. rivers/streams and ponds), like others, the authors have proven its use for riverine ecosystems (Ofenböck et al, 2010;Tampo et al, 2020;Tampo et al, 2021;Kaboréet al, 2022). This can help to perform better assessment methods of wetland ecosystems including overall habitat condition and biota.…”

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“…Burkina Faso is drained by four main catchments, namely, Nakanbe, Mouhoun, Comoe, and Niger, and constitutes its hydrological network (Kaboréet al, 2022). The most destructive changes to wetland ecosystems are a result of intensive agriculture and deforestation coupled with urban center expansion and industrial activities (Kaboréet al, 2016;Ola and Benjamin, 2019).…”

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Preliminary biological data of Sahel wetland ecosystems in Burkina Faso: Implications for ecological health assessment

Kaboré

Tampo

Bancé

et al. 2022

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Birds, amphibians, fish, and macroinvertebrates are useful indicators of ecological conditions and ensure considerable conservation value and tools for decision making in management of wetland ecosystems. However, the use of these organisms to monitor wetland ecosystems has rarely been explored in Western Africa. Whereas, we are currently facing to growing multiple anthropogenic pressures and climate warming that impact negatively our wetlands and the biodiversity. Notably, there is an urgent need of cost-effective tools for wetland ecosystems health assessment in Burkina Faso. In this study, we examined the taxonomic composition of birds, amphibians, fish, and macroinvertebrates and explored their potential use for monitoring wetland ecosystems. From our findings, measures of taxa composition and diversity respond to the gradients of anthropogenic alterations. Our results revealed that the highest diversity of fish and macroinvertebrates taxa was recorded in protected sites, whereas the lowest diversity was obtained in degraded sites. Additionally, the findings showed a strong and positive correlation between macroinvertebrates taxa and key water variables, whereas fish taxa were strongly correlated to xylal (deadwood) substrates. Most of bird’s species were recorded in tree-shrubs, and amphibians of protected wetlands were distinguished by identifying indicator taxa through indicator value index. African wetland ecosystems and biodiversity may be sustainably preserved through responsive monitoring programs of wetlands by limnologists.

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A benthic invertebrates-based biotic index to assess the ecological status of West African Sahel Rivers, Burkina Faso

Cited by 19 publications

References 53 publications

Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment Using Water Quality Indices in West Africa: Challenge and Perspectives

Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment Using Water Quality Indices in West Africa: Challenge and Perspectives

A review of the application of the Macroinvertebrate-based Multimetric Index (MMI) for water quality monitoring in lakes

Preliminary biological data of Sahel wetland ecosystems in Burkina Faso: Implications for ecological health assessment

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