A database of lotic invertebrate traits for North America

Vieira, Nicole K. M.; Poff, Nicole; Carlisle, Daren M.; Moulton, Stephen R.; Koski, Marci L.; Kondratieff, Boris C.

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“…TBA was developed in Europe and has been an increasingly applied biomonitoring practice there (Dolédec et al, 1999(Dolédec et al, , 2000(Dolédec et al, , 2008Charvet et al, 2000Statzner et al, 2004;Gayraud et al, 2003;Díaz et al, 2008;Menezes et al, 2010;Feio & Dolédec, 2012). TBA has also been explored in North America (e.g., Poff et al, 2006;Vieira et al, 2006), Australia (Chessman & Royal, 2004), New Zealand (Dolédec et al, 2006(Dolédec et al, , 2011, and China (Zhang et al, 2013;He et al, 2015). Here we show its effective use for bioassessment in Mongolia and potentially other parts of Central Asia.…”

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Macroinvertebrate community responses to land use: a trait-based approach for freshwater biomonitoring in Mongolia

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Land-use practices in Mongolia can lead to environmental degradation and consequently affect the structure and function of biological communities. The main aim of this study was to determine land-use effects on freshwater macroinvertebrate communities based on their response to grazing and mining, using a trait-based approach (TBA). The functional structure of macroinvertebrate communities was examined using 86 categories of 16 traits. A total of 13 physical and chemical variables were significantly different among the levels of land-use intensity. Significant declines in functional diversity were observed with increased land-use intensity. The community weighted mean of 19 trait categories for 11 traits varied significantly among different levels of land-use intensity. Traits were significantly explained by environmental variables across a land-use intensity gradient. Water temperature, gravel, nitrate, silt, and cobble were the main predictor variables and explained 28% of the total variance of the trait variation. The functional structure of the macroinvertebrate community was strongly related to environmental conditions. The TBA is an important method in assessing disturbance responses in freshwater communities of steppe and taiga regions, such as in Mongolia and other countries in Central Asia and will be useful in finding best management practices for conserving aquatic ecosystems. Handling editor: Checo Colón-GaudElectronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.

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Macroinvertebrate community responses to land use: a trait-based approach for freshwater biomonitoring in Mongolia

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“…We categorized taxa with optima values ,40 th percentile as cold-water-preference taxa and taxa with optima values .60 th percentile as warmwater-preference taxa. We modified these assignments as necessary after considering temperaturepreference classifications in traits databases (Poff et al 2006b, Vieira et al 2006, weighted-averaging results based on data from other states in the same region, taxon distributions among warmer and colder streams in the states analyzed (USEPA 2010), literature reviews, and best professional judgment from the regional advisory groups.…”

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Vulnerability of biological metrics and multimetric indices to effects of climate change

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“…Still, more data on the autecological characteristics, ecological preferences and biological traits are necessary, especially for neotropic benthic fauna. The way forward includes the compilation of bio/ecological traits in large databases, such as those developed for Europe (Bonada &Dolédec 2011, Schmidt-Kloiber andHering 2015), North America (Vieira et al 2006), South America (Tomanova & Usseglio-Polatera 2007), and New Zealand (Dolédec et al 2006). Several researchers highlight the potential of using biological traits as metrics for bioassessments, since they can potentially reveal additional information concerning ecosystem properties beyond taxonomic composition (Poff et al 2006, Dolédec & Statzner 2008, Culp et al 2011.…”

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A predictive index based on environmental filters for the bioassessment of river basins without reference areas in Atlantic Forest biome, Brazil

2019

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Biological assessments that use the reference condition approach are based on the concept of comparing a site's observed biology to sites where disturbance is minimal or absent. However, in many regions of the world, such areas are scarce or nonexistent. In this study, an alternative approach proposed by Chessman and Royal for bioassessment without reference areas based on environmental filters was tested in Brazil. This approach assumes that key environmental features act in the selection of potential colonists, from a regional pool of taxa, based on the ecological traits (tolerances) possessed by each taxon. We developed the approach by: 1) determining the regional pool, based on a large Atlantic Forest biome database; 2) selecting environmental filters (elevation, original vegetation and soil type); and 3) including information on the tolerance and preferences of aquatic insects to these filters. With this information we were able to determine the expected taxon under natural conditions and compare with observed taxon, developing a predictive index (Observed/Expected). Although the model was intended to predict the fauna in regions without reference sites, we included reference areas to test the model responsiveness, precision and sensitivity. Our results indicated that the index was able to discriminate impairment classes (F=56.9; p<0,001), it has high precision due to low standard deviation across reference sites values (SD=0.098) and high sensitivity due the correlation with environmental variables that are sensitive to human alteration (r=0.74, p<0.01). Also, it was strongly correlated with multimetric indices developed for multiple watersheds in the state, showing agreement between the methods in relation to ecological quality classification. Even though the predictive index had performed well in our study, we make some considerations that may help to improve its sensitivity of similar methods that are being tested using the environmental filters approach.

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A database of lotic invertebrate traits for North America

Cited by 140 publications

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Macroinvertebrate community responses to land use: a trait-based approach for freshwater biomonitoring in Mongolia

Macroinvertebrate community responses to land use: a trait-based approach for freshwater biomonitoring in Mongolia

Vulnerability of biological metrics and multimetric indices to effects of climate change

A predictive index based on environmental filters for the bioassessment of river basins without reference areas in Atlantic Forest biome, Brazil

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