Assessing biological water quality of Yalakdere stream (Yalova, Turkey) with benthic macroinvertebrate-based metrics

Akay, Enis; Dalkıran, Nurhayat

doi:10.2478/s11756-019-00387-9

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“…This justifies the use in this study of the benthic macroinvertebrate metric approach to assess water quality in the littoral zone of the lake. White et al (2008) highlighted the sensitivity of macroinvertebrates to environmental factors compared with macrophytes and fish species, indicating the highly responsive nature of macroinvertebrates to changes in environmental variables and their usefulness in assessing associated effects on water bodies (Akay & Dalkıran, 2019;Guimaraes et al, 2009;Odountan et al, 2019;Ozolin ¸š et al, 2021;Vitecek et al, 2021). The method used is specifically based on the estimation of different metrics representing structural and functional aspects of the macrobenthic community considered as a community with some taxa being pollution tolerant and others not.…”

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“…In 2000, the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (DCE: Commission européenne, 2000), which aimed to define methods for assessing the ecological status of lakes, motivated the development of several methods for assessing anthropogenic pressures to support the assessment of ecological quality status or to define reference conditions (Akay & Dalkıran, 2019; Guimaraes et al, 2009; Odountan et al, 2019). In Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia and New Zealand in addition to several national standardized methods for assessing impairment, several indices have been developed and proposed for adoption (Ozoliņš et al, 2021; Vitecek et al, 2021).…”

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Choice of benthic macroinvertebrate‐based metrics for assessing water quality in the littoral zone under anthropogenic disturbance in southern Lake Kivu (East Africa)

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Benthic macroinvertebrates are widely used to assess the ecological quality of fresh waters. This is because they are in direct contact with the aquatic environment and respond differently to pollutants and changes in the watershed, which are difficult to assess by toxicological or chemical monitoring alone. This study used benthic macroinvertebrate parameters to assess the quality of the nearshore waters of lake Kivu. Twenty‐six metrics covering various aspects of the community were tested using whisker plots to compare their sensitivity in discriminating between reference and disturbed stations. Nine parameters (% EPT taxa, % Diptera taxa, % Chironomid taxa, % Insect taxa; % no Insects taxa, ratio EPT/Chironomid taxa, % moderate tolerant taxa, % very moderate tolerant taxa, Family Biotic Index) were found to be sensitive and were able to discriminate between reference and disturbed stations. All sensitive metrics, with the exception of the percentage of EPT taxa, were positively and/or negatively correlated with the physico‐chemical parameters affected by the changes in the littoral zone. The combined values of the three calculated biotic indices (ASPT, BMWP, and FBI) showed that the biological water quality varies from moderate to good in the reference stations and from average to poor in the disturbed stations. It is concluded that metrics based on benthic macroinvertebrates are effective for assessing water quality in the littoral zone of Lake Kivu in the context of the lack of historical water quality databases and specific tools for toxicological assessment. It is suggested to compare the performance of this approach with others currently used in bio‐indication.

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Choice of benthic macroinvertebrate‐based metrics for assessing water quality in the littoral zone under anthropogenic disturbance in southern Lake Kivu (East Africa)

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“…The number of WFD studies using macroinvertebrates has increased in last 10 years in Turkey (Kazancı and Ertunç, 2010;Kazancı et al, 2010a;Kazancı et al, 2010b;Duran and Akyıldız, 2011;Ekingen and Kazancı, 2012;Kazancı et al, 2013a;Kazancı et al, 2013b;Zeybek et al, 2014;Kazancı et al, 2015;Türkmen and Kazancı, 2015;Arslan et al, 2016a;Arslan et al, 2016b;Başören and Kazancı, 2016;Bolat et al, 2016;Türkmen and Kazancı, 2016;Gültekin et al, 2017;Kazancı et al, 2017;Zeybek, 2017;Akay and Dalkıran, 2019;Gültekin, 2019).…”

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Ecological Requirements of Larval Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera) Species of some Streams in Camili Valley (Artvin, Turkey)

Başören

Kazancı

2021

Acta Aquatica Turcica

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This study was carried out in July 2016 in Camili (Macahel) which is Turkey's first and only biosphere reserve area. This study aimed to investigate the Simuliidae species of some streams in Camili Valley, to identify the "reference site" which are important for the Water Framework Directive (WFD), to determine ecological characteristics of the studied sites according to System A and System B Classification of Water Framework Directive (WFD), to explore the relationship between the recorded species and some environmental variables of streams by using CCA technique. For this purpose, 257 individuals of Simuliidae were sampled from nine studied sites. Physicochemical variables (dissolved oxygen, pH, water temperature, electrical conductivity, velocity) were measured at each studied site. In Camili Valley the following species were collected: Simulium (Nevermannia) angustitarse, Simulium (Nevermannia) cryophilum, Simulium (Nevermannia) vernum, Simulium (Simulium) bezzii, Simulium (Simulium) tuberosum, Simulium (Simulium) variegatum. Because anthropogenic stresses were insignificant in the research area, studied sites and Simuliidae fauna of the area were not affected negatively. Also, six of the studied sites have reference habitat conditions.

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“…Benthic macroinvertebrates are the most commonly used organisms for biomonitoring the quality of aquatic habitats (Johnson et al, 2006;Rosenberg and Resh, 1993). In Turkey, WFD studies using macroinvertebrates has increased in last 10 years (Akay and Dalkıran, 2019;Arslan, Salur, et al, 2016;Arslan, Kökçü, et al, 2016;Başören and Kazancı, 2016;Bolat et al, 2016;Duran and Akyildiz, 2011;Ekingen and Kazancı, 2012;, 2015, 2017Kazancı, 2015, 2016;Zeybek, 2017;Zeybek et al, 2014).…”

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Distribution of Aquatic Diptera larvae of Yeşilırmak River (Turkey) and ecological characteristics

Başören

Kazancı

2020

EgeJFAS

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Yeşilırmak River is one of the most important running waters of Turkey, but the water quality of this river has been affected by agricultural and domestic pollution. Dams and hydroelectric power plants also threaten the habitat quality and biodiversity of the river. This research contains investigation of Diptera fauna in Yeşilırmak River and tributaries, determination ecological characteristics of the collecting sites according to System A and System B Classification of Water Framework Directive (WFD), assessment of water quality of the studied sites by measuring the physicochemical variables (water temperature, pH, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, NO2-N, NO3-N, NH4-N, PO4-P) and using some metrics (abundance, number of taxa, Simpson Diversity Index, Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index, Margalef Diversity Index, Evenness). Thirty-three (33) sites were sampled from Yeşilırmak River and its tributaries in June 2010. Diptera individuals were detected in 20 of them. Two thousand four hundred forty-five (2445) individuals belonging to 12 families and 16 taxa were identified in 20 sampling sites. The water quality classes of the studied sites were Class III (moderate pollution) and Class IV (heavily pollution) according to values of physicochemical variables.

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Assessing biological water quality of Yalakdere stream (Yalova, Turkey) with benthic macroinvertebrate-based metrics

Cited by 19 publications

References 44 publications

Choice of benthic macroinvertebrate‐based metrics for assessing water quality in the littoral zone under anthropogenic disturbance in southern Lake Kivu (East Africa)

Choice of benthic macroinvertebrate‐based metrics for assessing water quality in the littoral zone under anthropogenic disturbance in southern Lake Kivu (East Africa)

Ecological Requirements of Larval Simuliidae (Insecta, Diptera) Species of some Streams in Camili Valley (Artvin, Turkey)

Distribution of Aquatic Diptera larvae of Yeşilırmak River (Turkey) and ecological characteristics

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