A new method to assess water trophy and organic pollution – the Macrophyte Biological Index for Rivers (IBMR): its application to different types of river and pollution

Haury, Jacques; Peltre, M.C.; Trémolières, Michèle; Barbe, J.; Thiébaut, Gabrielle; Bernez, Ivan; Daniel, Hervé; Chatenet, Philippe; Haan-Archipof, G.; Müller, Serge; Dutartre, Alain; Laplace-Treyture, Christophe; Cazaubon, Arlette; Lambert-Servien, Elisabeth

doi:10.1007/s10750-006-0175-3

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“…This relationship was almost proportional and statistically significant. These two metrics, like other metrics developed for the purpose of ecological status assessment in Europe (e.g., IBMR, Haury et al 2006; RI, Schaumburg et al 2004) utilized in their local conditions (EU countries), can be recommended for monitoring and can be applied for ecological classification of rivers which are degraded by eutrophication.…”

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“…Nowadays, this group of organisms is an obligatory element in the monitoring of the ecological status of surface waters in EU countries under the Water Framework Directive (WFD, European Commission 2000). For river monitoring purposes, several systems based on aquatic plants have been developed, and some of them have been integrated into national monitoring programs, e.g., in the UK (Willby et al 2009), France (Haury et al 2006), Germany (Schaumburg et al 2004) and Poland (Szoszkiewicz et al 2010). …”

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Is the macrophyte diversification along the trophic gradient distinct enough for river monitoring?

Szoszkiewicz

Budka

Pietruczuk

et al. 2016

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The variation of a number of parameters characterizing aquatic plant assemblages in rivers across a wide trophic gradient was investigated to evaluate their usefulness for a Polish national river monitoring system. Analyses were conducted at 100 sites included in the national river monitoring system, representing a uniform river type, i.e., small- and medium-sized lowland rivers with a sandy substrate. Results of botanical surveys, which were supplemented with comprehensive monthly quality records, were obtained from the national monitoring database. By analyzing the Jaccard distances of the botanical metrics using the adonis function, the variation in species composition between rivers of different trophic status was determined. The group consisting of the most degraded rivers was the most homogeneous in terms of botanical composition. The cleanest rivers displayed a high level of heterogeneity within their group, as numerous different unique species were found there at low frequencies. The variation of the macrophyte metrics used to assess the ecological status (Macrophyte Index for Rivers (MIR) and River Macrophyte Nutrient Index (RMNI)) reflected a trophic gradient. We confirmed that vegetation diversification along a trophic gradient is evident enough to detect degradation in a five quality class system.

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Is the macrophyte diversification along the trophic gradient distinct enough for river monitoring?

Szoszkiewicz

Budka

Pietruczuk

et al. 2016

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“…Macrophyte-based methods are mainly focussed on assessing nutrient enrichment (e.g. Holmes et al, 1999;Schneider et al, 2000;Haury et al, 2002) and acidification (e.g. Tremp & Kohler, 1995), although recently assessment systems have addressed general stream degradation (Passauer et al, 2002;Schaumburg et al, 2004).…”

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Assessment of European streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish: a comparative metric‐based analysis of organism response to stress

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1. Periphytic diatoms, macrophytes, benthic macroinvertebrates and fish were sampled with standard methods in 185 streams in nine European countries to compare their response to degradation. Streams were classified into two main stream type groups (i.e. lowland, mountain streams); in addition, the lowland streams were grouped into four more specific stream types. 2. Principal components analysis with altogether 43 environmental parameters was used to construct complex stressor gradients for physical-chemical, hydromorphological and land use data. About 30 metrics were calculated for each sample and organism group. Metric responses to different stress types were analysed by Spearman Rank Correlation. 3. All four organism groups showed significant response to eutrophication/organic pollution gradients. Generally, diatom metrics were most strongly correlated to eutrophication gradients (85% and 89% of the diatom metrics tested correlated significantly in mountain and lowland streams, respectively), followed by invertebrate metrics (91% and 59%). 4. Responses of the four organism groups to other gradients were less strong; all organism groups responded to varying degrees to land use changes, hydromorphological degradation on the microhabitat scale and general degradation gradients, while the response to hydromorphological gradients on the reach scale was mainly limited to benthic macroinvertebrates (50% and 44% of the metrics tested correlated significantly in mountain and lowland streams, respectively) and fish (29% and 47%). 5. Fish and macrophyte metrics generally showed a poor response to degradation gradients in mountain streams and a strong response in lowland streams. 6. General recommendations on European bioassessment of streams were derived from the results.

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“…Many aquatic bryophyte species are used in bio-indicator methods of watercourse assessment (i.e., Haury et al 2006; Holmes et al 1999; Meilinger et al 2005; Szoszkiewicz et al 2010; Willby et al 2009). Most of them are typical indicators of low concentrations of nutrients in water (especially orthophosphates; Szoszkiewicz et al 2010), although a few tolerant species (e.g., Leptodictyum riparium , L. humile ) indicate anthropogenic degradation of watercourses (Ceschin et al 2012; Vanderpoorten 1999).…”

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Vascular plant and bryophyte species richness in response to water quality in lowland spring niches with different anthropogenic impacts

Puczko

Zieliński

Jusik

et al. 2018

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Many freshwater ecosystems face severe threats from anthropogenic disturbances. In the field, we investigated the morphology of spring niches and the species richness of vascular plants and bryophytes in 16 springs, draining the quaternary aquifers, located in two different environments—an urban area (city of Białystok) and a protected area (Knyszyn Forest Landscape Park, NE Poland). In total, 47 vascular plant and 45 bryophyte species were recorded, representing mostly crenophytes including protected species. The most important water quality parameters that can be used to evaluate variations of the spring water chemistry in NE Poland are the mineral-related parameters (electrolytic conductivity, Ca2+, SO42−, and Cl−). The organic-related parameters (DOC) and nutrients (TP, NO3−-N) were negatively involved in water quality variations. Our results show that anthropogenic activity significantly affects the biodiversity of plant communities in lowland springs. The presence or absence of crenophytes and bryophytes is indicative of the ecological status of the groundwater outflow complexes.

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A new method to assess water trophy and organic pollution – the Macrophyte Biological Index for Rivers (IBMR): its application to different types of river and pollution

Cited by 166 publications

References 12 publications

Is the macrophyte diversification along the trophic gradient distinct enough for river monitoring?

Is the macrophyte diversification along the trophic gradient distinct enough for river monitoring?

Assessment of European streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish: a comparative metric‐based analysis of organism response to stress

Vascular plant and bryophyte species richness in response to water quality in lowland spring niches with different anthropogenic impacts

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