Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers

Everall, Nicholas C.; Johnson, Matthew F.; Wood, Paul J.; Paisley, M. F.; Trigg, David; Farmer, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105619

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“…BOD values at all observation stations have exceeded the quality standards, indicating the availability of organic matter as macrozoobenthic food is slight. The BOD value indicates the number of organic substances decomposed by microorganisms compared to organic matter utilized by macrozoobenthic [33]. The diversity and richness of higher species in the river might be related to the hydrology and the river's morphology [20].…”

Section: Water Quality Of Bone Rivermentioning

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Macrozoobenthic diversity and heavy metals (Pb and Hg) accumulation in Bone River Gorontalo Indonesia

Kadim

Herawati

Arfiati

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The heavy metal pollution on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in Bone River has not been studied. This present study determined to investigate the diversity of the macrozoobenthic trough the length of Bone River concerning the heavy metals leads and mercury at eight sampling stations. The samples were taken in July 2021. A sample of four representative macro zoobenthic families (Hydropsychidae, Baetidae and Elmidae) was also used to analyze metal bioaccumulation. The macrozoobenthic recorded in this study comprise of ten orders and 35 families with a total of 3146 individuals. Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Coleoptera, and Trichoptera dominate the population size of benthic. The diversity indices show the low and medium categories but favour a better macrozoobenthic development. Monitoring studies show that the concentration of Pb in sediments is much higher than that of mercury. Metal accumulation in sediments showed fluctuations but did not reflect macrozoobenthic metal concentrations. The bioconcentration factor (BCF) value generally indicates that the three taxa are categorized in the low accumulative category.

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Section: Water Quality Of Bone Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

Macrozoobenthic diversity and heavy metals (Pb and Hg) accumulation in Bone River Gorontalo Indonesia

Kadim

Herawati

Arfiati

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…do not always correspond closely with indicators of ecological quality (21) . This is unsurprising when the impact of TRP, defined by Everall et al (22) as the biologically available P contribution, is currently assessed using the response and community change of diatoms (The Trophic Diatom Index -TDI); yet the Trophic Diatom Index has been developed through measuring phosphorus as " P ≡ FRP (Filtered reactive phosphorus) ≡ 'orthophosphate' (23) .…”

Section: It Has Been Observed That Measured Concentrations Of Phosphorus In Surface Watersmentioning

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Physico-chemical factors controlling the speciation of phosphorus in English and Welsh rivers

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Gardner

Hutchinson

et al. 2020

Environ. Sci.: Processes Impacts

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“…Working from a premise that sensitivities to stressors vary among species and biotic groups, a variety of numerical stressor‐specific biotic indices have been developed and are used to aid interpretation of the causes of biological degradation of fresh waters. For some time, indices have been based on perceived tolerance of organisms to pollution as assessed by expert judgement, such as ASPT, LIFE, PSI, SPEAR (Armitage et al, 1983 ; Beketov et al, 2009 ; Extence et al, 1999 , 2013 : for details of all biological indices see Table S1 ), but latterly statistical approaches have been used in conjunction with empirical data to improve these indices (MCI, WHPT, ePSI; Clapcott et al, 2017 ; Paisley et al, 2014 ; Turley et al, 2016 ; Turley et al, 2015 ) and to develop new indices a priori (Sed‐MCI, AWIC, CoFSI, BSTI, TRPI; Clapcott et al, 2017 ; Everall et al, 2019 ; Hubler et al, 2016 ; Murphy et al, 2013 ; Murphy et al, 2015 ). Now indices are available for a wide range of pressures, including among others, organic pollution, eutrophication, acidification, pesticides, excess fine sediment and flow pressures, as well as general degradation (Birk et al, 2012 ).…”

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What do macroinvertebrate indices measure? Stressor‐specific stream macroinvertebrate indices can be confounded by other stressors

et al. 2023

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1. Monitoring programmes worldwide use biota to assess the "health" of water bodies. Indices based on biota are used to describe the change in status of sites over time, to identify progress against management targets and to diagnose the causes of biological degradation. A variety of numerical stressor-specific biotic indices have been developed based on the response of biota to differences in stressors among sites. Yet, it is not clear how variation in pressures within sites, over what time period, and in what combination has the greatest impact on different biotic groups. An understanding of how temporal variation in pressures influences biological assessment indices would assist in setting achievable targets and help focus catchment-scale mitigation strategies to ensure that they deliver the desired improvements in biological condition. 2. Hydrochemical data provided by a network of high-frequency (15 or 30 min) automated monitoring stations over 3 years were matched to replicated biological data to understand the influence of spatio-temporal variation in pollution pressures on biological indices. Hydrochemical data were summarised in various ways to reflect central tendency, peaks, troughs and variation over 1-90 days before the collection of each biological sample. An objective model selection procedure was used to determine which hydrochemical determinand, and over what time period, best explained variation in the biological indices. 3. Stressor-specific indices derived from macroinvertebrates which purportedly assess stress from low flows, excess fine sediment, nutrient enrichment, pesticides and organic pollution were significantly inter-correlated and reflected periods of low oxygen concentration, even though only one index (ASPT WHPT , average score per taxon) was designed for this purpose. Changes in community composition resulting from one stressor frequently lead to confounding effects on stressorspecific indices.

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Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

Macrozoobenthic diversity and heavy metals (Pb and Hg) accumulation in Bone River Gorontalo Indonesia

Macrozoobenthic diversity and heavy metals (Pb and Hg) accumulation in Bone River Gorontalo Indonesia

Physico-chemical factors controlling the speciation of phosphorus in English and Welsh rivers

What do macroinvertebrate indices measure? Stressor‐specific stream macroinvertebrate indices can be confounded by other stressors

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