Assessment of aquatic ecological health based on determination of biological community variability of fish and macroinvertebrates in the Weihe River Basin, China

Mao, Ruichen; Li, Mingyue; Xia, Jun; Song, Jingxi; Cheng, Dandong; Sun, Haotian

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110651

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“…Benthic macroinvertebrate sampling: A Peterson sediment sampler (0.025 m 2 ) was used for quantitative sampling, and each site was collected 3-5 times [37,[48][49][50]. Each sample was sieved on a 0.45 mm screen, sorted, enumerated, and identified to the lowest possible taxon (usually species or genus).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the diversity, abundance, composition, tolerance, and functional metrics of the three analyzed biological groups, 36 candidate metrics for fish [20,33,45,55], 39 candidate metrics for benthic macroinvertebrates [37,48,56,57], and 25 candidate metrics for phytoplankton [17,27,[52][53][54]58] were identified as being sensitive to disturbances and were selected as candidate metrics (Table 1).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Under these research conditions, changes in some biological ecosystem conditions and the sources of environmental pressures that interfere with specific groups may be ignored. Nevertheless, only a few studies simultaneously based on different groups have been reported thus far [36,37]. To our knowledge, researchers have not reached a unified conclusion about the regularity of IBI evaluation results obtained based on different groups [38][39][40].…”

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confidence: 95%

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Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health with Indices of Biotic Integrity (IBIs) in the Ganjiang River System, China

Huang

Jing

Liu

et al. 2022

Water

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Indices of biotic integrity (IBIs) are widely used to assess aquatic ecosystem health. However, there are few studies on their relationships. Based on fish, macroinvertebrate and plankton survey data collected in the Ganjiang River system from 2016 to 2017, redundancy analysis (RDA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) were used to analyze how the community structures of these organisms respond to environmental variables. The fish IBI (F-IBI), benthic macroinvertebrate IBI (B-IBI), and phytoplankton IBI (P-IBI) were applied to evaluate the health status of the aquatic ecosystem. A Kruskal–Wallis test (p < 0.05) and Spearman’s correlation coefficient analysis were performed to evaluate the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the results. Our results suggested that the F-IBI-, B-IBI-, and P-IBI-based assessments indicated good, fair, and healthy Ganjiang River system ecosystem health statuses, respectively, and significant differences existed among these indices (p < 0.05). The main environmental factors affecting F-IBI, B-IBI, and P-IBI were different. At the temporal scale, the F-IBI and B-IBI were stable, while the P-IBI fluctuated obviously. The consistency between the F-IBI and B-IBI results was better than that between each of these indices and the P-IBI results, and the consistency was better on a larger scale. These research results show that comprehensive assessments based on multiple groups rather than a single group can better characterize the impacts of environmental pressures on water ecosystems.

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Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health with Indices of Biotic Integrity (IBIs) in the Ganjiang River System, China

Huang

Jing

Liu

et al. 2022

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“…The use of the macroinvertebrate community as a biological indicator for water quality, especially for river ecosystems, has been explored by numerous studies (Ahmad et al, 2015;Jang, 2016;Lin et al, 2016;Wang & Tan, 2017;Li et al, 2018;Wan Abdul Ghani et al, 2018). However, the determinant factors for macroinvertebrate assemblages remain vague, although a few studies have made an attempt at identifying the factors related to the assemblages (Liu et al, 2016;Wu et al, 2020;Zhao et al, 2019). Therefore, the research objectives of this study were to (1) examine the characteristics of habitats in the recreational river, (2) analyze the water quality parameters in the recreational river, (3) identify the species diversity richness and distribution of macroinvertebrates in the recreational river, and (4) assess the determinant factors for the macroinvertebrate assemblages in the recreational river.…”

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The determinant factors for macroinvertebrate assemblages in a recreational river in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Azis

Abas

2021

Environ Monit Assess

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The determinant factors for macroinvertebrate assemblages in river ecosystems are varied and are unique and specific to the type of macroinvertebrate family. This study aims to assess the determinant factors for macroinvertebrate assemblages in a recreational river. The study was conducted on the Ulu Bendul River, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. A total of ten sampling stations were selected. The research methodology included (1) water quality measurement, (2) habitat characterization, and (3) macroinvertebrate identification and distribution analysis. The statistical analysis used in this study was canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) to represent the relationship between the environmental factors and macroinvertebrate assemblages in the recreational river. This study found that most of the families of macroinvertebrates were very dependent on the temperature, DO, NH3-N, type of riverbed, etc. All of these factors are important for the survival of the particular type of macroinvertebrate, plus they are also important for selecting egg-laying areas and providing suitable conditions for the larvae to grow. This study advises that improved landscape design for watershed management be implemented in order to enhance water quality and physical habitats, and hence the protection and recovery of the macroinvertebrate biodiversity.

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“…River health includes the natural health of the river, the ability to provide a good ecological environment, and social service functions (Wu et al 2020b). Since the concept of river health was put forward, Europe, United States, South Africa, Australia, and others have elaborated various assessment methods.…”

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Ecosystem Health of the Beiyun River Basin (Beijing, China) as Evaluated by the Analytic Hierarchy Process Method

Yuan

Zhao

et al. 2021

Preprint

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Ecosystem services provided by river ecosystems rely on healthy ecosystem structure and ecological processes. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban is a typical water-deficient area. As an important part of the urban-rural integration construction, evaluating the health status of the Beiyun River Basin and discovering the weak links in the water environment is the basis for improving the health of the basin. In this study, Analytic Hierarchy Process was used to establish an evaluation index system for the Beiyun River Basin from 5 aspects including water quality, biology, habitat, hydrology, and social functions, and to assign weights to the index layer. The evaluation results showed that the health evaluation results of the Beiyun River Basin in 2019 are “sub-healthy”, and the overall health status is gradually worsening from northwest to southeast. In the middle reaches of the region, the evaluation result is "healthy", followed by the upstream, and the downstream is the worst. The results showed that areas with less human interference are in better health. The factors that affect the overall health evaluation status in the basin are the level of nutrition, biodiversity, and vegetation coverage. For the comprehensive management of the Beiyun River, the improvement of water quality and habitat ecological restoration is the key to the health of the upstream ecosystem health status. The improvement of the health status of the downstream should focus on equal emphasis on water quality and quantity, restoration of biodiversity, and improvement of the quality of the riparian ecological environment.

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Assessment of aquatic ecological health based on determination of biological community variability of fish and macroinvertebrates in the Weihe River Basin, China

Cited by 52 publications

References 43 publications

Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health with Indices of Biotic Integrity (IBIs) in the Ganjiang River System, China

Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health with Indices of Biotic Integrity (IBIs) in the Ganjiang River System, China

The determinant factors for macroinvertebrate assemblages in a recreational river in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Ecosystem Health of the Beiyun River Basin (Beijing, China) as Evaluated by the Analytic Hierarchy Process Method

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