Implementing the Water Framework Directive in overseas Europe: A multimetric macroinvertebrate index for river bioassessment in Caribbean islands

Touron-Poncet, Heliott; Bernadet, Caroline; Compin, Arthur; Bargier, Nicolas; Céréghino, Régis

doi:10.1016/j.limno.2014.04.002

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“…This is owing to the fact that these regions are lacking of basic knowledge about biomonitoring compared, for instance, to other regions of the world (Touron-Poncet et al, 2014).…”

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Diversity of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Streams Quality in the National Park of Belezma (Northern-East, Algeria)

Benzina

Bachir

2018

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“…This is owing to the fact that these regions are lacking of basic knowledge about biomonitoring compared, for instance, to other regions of the world (Touron-Poncet et al, 2014).…”

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Diversity of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Streams Quality in the National Park of Belezma (Northern-East, Algeria)

Benzina

Bachir

2018

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“…In recent neotropical studies, only Touron‐Poncet et al . () used species‐level identifications of aquatic insects in Caribbean islands—but in this insular context, most genera only had one species. On the methodological side, however, multimetric indices in the neotropics were designed for study areas ranging from a few hundred (Couceiro et al .…”

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“…However, these regions were overlooked during the development of methods that fulfil WFD's requirements, at the point that most if not all of them still lack WFD‐compliant tools. This is particularly true of the French overseas departments, for example, Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean (but see Touron‐Poncet et al ., , for recent updates), Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean and French Guiana (FG) in the Eastern Amazon. Differences in climatic, biogeographic and geomorphological conditions, as well as differences in anthropogenic pressure, preclude the transposition of bioassessment tools developed in continental Europe to overseas regions.…”

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A Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index for the Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in French Guiana, East Amazonia

Dedieu

Clavier

Vigouroux

et al. 2015

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Neotropical, overseas regions of Europe are subjected to the same water policy objectives as the continental ones but were overlooked during recent developments of bioindicators that fulfil the Water Framework Directive guidelines. We designed a macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index [Indice Biotique Macroinvertébrés de Guyane (IBMG)] to assess ecological health in remote headwater-small streams of French Guiana, Europe's only overseas region of continental South America. Invertebrates were sampled at 95 sites including reference and impacted river reaches, following a standardized protocol. Among the 102 biological metrics calculated from site-specific data, we selected metrics exhibiting the best trade-off between high discrimination efficiency, low specificity, low redundancy and high stability under reference conditions. The IBMG is composed of two taxonomic richness-based metrics, two abundance-based metrics, one trait-related metric and a diversity index (Shannon's entropy). Each metric was weighted by its discrimination efficiency. Using a test data set, we found that the IBMG was sensitive to the range of disturbances in French Guiana. Finally, comparing the IBMG with other indices developed in other neotropical countries reveals that, for several reasons, multimetric indices developed in the neotropics may perform well in the context of the data sets used to generate them but would certainly fail to be robust when used elsewhere.

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“…A multimetric approach to assess the biological quality of running waters according to the EU WFD requirements has been well developed not only in the Member States but also in other countries Cuadrado et al, 2013;Nguyen et al, 2014;Touron-Poncet et al, 2014). In Poland, a new multimetric MMI PL index combines six key metrics within different metric categories (AQEM Consortium, 2002;Bis, 2012).…”

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Application of the new multimetric MMI_PL index for biological water quality assessment in reference and human-impacted streams (Poland, the Slovak Republic)

Lewin¹,

Jusik²,

Szoszkiewicz³

et al. 2014

Limnologica

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a b s t r a c tA new multimetric MMI PL index, which is based on the macroinvertebrate composition and combines six single key metrics, has already been implemented in Poland according to the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive. The objectives of our survey were to assess the biological water quality using the new multimetric MMI PL index in both reference and human-impacted streams, to analyze whether the values of the new multimetric index properly reflect the ecological status of the water in upland and mountain streams as well as to determine which environmental factors influence the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates and the values of the metrics. The study was carried out from 2007 to 2010 in three Ecoregions that were established by the EU WFD. A total of 60 sampling sites: 36 reference sites that were situated in the headwaters of mountain streams at mid-and high-altitudes and 24, humanimpacted sampling sites were selected. The benthic macroinvertebrate surveys were supported by both a hydromorphological and macrophyte assessment according to the River Habitat Survey (RHS) and to the Macrophyte Methods for Rivers. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) showed that the values of the Habitat Quality Assessment (HQA) index, conductivity, pH and altitude were the parameters most associated (statistically significant) with the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrate taxa and the values of the metrics in both the reference and human-impacted (impaired) sections of the streams in Ecoregions 9, 10 and 14. The new MMI PL index was useful for biological water quality assessment and was also important for separating both the reference and impaired sections of streams. The MMI PL index and some key metrics performed contrary to what was expected in relation to the reference high-altitude siliceous streams (the High Tatra Mts., Ecoregion 10). Low values of multimetric index and key metrics did not properly reflect their high ecological status and pristine character as reflected by the hydromorphological (RHS) and macrophyte surveys or the physical and chemical parameters of the water.

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Implementing the Water Framework Directive in overseas Europe: A multimetric macroinvertebrate index for river bioassessment in Caribbean islands

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

Diversity of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Streams Quality in the National Park of Belezma (Northern-East, Algeria)

Diversity of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Streams Quality in the National Park of Belezma (Northern-East, Algeria)

A Multimetric Macroinvertebrate Index for the Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in French Guiana, East Amazonia

Application of the new multimetric MMI_PL index for biological water quality assessment in reference and human-impacted streams (Poland, the Slovak Republic)

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