Rapid Assessment of Wetland Condition Reflects Amphibian Community Composition

Dupler, Kari; Guidugli-Cook, Michelle; Brown, David R.; Richter, Stephen C.

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“…Plants, invertebrates, and amphibians are common indicators of ecosystem condition, especially in wetlands (Siddig et al 2016), because taxa within these groups differ predictably in their sensitivity to environmental pollution and stress (Rosenberg and Resh 1993;Hodkinson and Jackson 2005;Clayton and Edwards 2006;Craft et al 2007;Dupler et al 2020). Bird habitat is an economically and culturally important function provided by wetland ecosystems, so wetland monitoring protocols often include assessments of bird populations.…”

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Drivers, pressures, and state responses to inform long-term oil sands wetland monitoring program objectives

Ficken

Connor

Rooney

et al. 2021

Wetlands Ecol Manage

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Boreal peatlands provide numerous ecosystem services ranging from carbon sequestration to the provisioning of habitat for species integral to Indigenous communities. In the Oil Sands Region of Alberta, Canada, human development related to oil and gas extraction occurs in a wetland-dominated landscape. Wetland monitoring programs can determine the extent to which development impacts wetlands, but existing monitoring programs focus on characterizing biodiversity across the region and on compliance and regulatory monitoring that assumes impacts from oil sands development do not extend past lease boundaries. This is unlikely to be true since some impacts, such as particulate deposition, can extend over large areas contingent on local weather and topography. To inform the development of a new regional wetland monitoring program to assess the cumulative effects of oil sands development on wetlands, we synthesized information on the scope of wetland research across the Oil Sands Region, including the anthropogenic stressors that impact wetlands and the wetland characteristics sensitive to different disturbances. We developed a conceptual model linking human development with wetland ecology in the region to make explicit the relationships among oil sands development stressors and different components of wetland ecosystems. By highlighting testable relationships, this conceptual model can be used as a collection of hypotheses to identify knowledge gaps and to guide future research priorities. relationships among We found that the majority of studies are short-term (77% were ≤ 5 years) and are conducted over a limited spatial extent (82% were sub-regional). Studies of reclaimed wetlands were relatively common (18% of all tests); disproportionate to the occurrence of this wetland type. Results from these studies likely cannot be extrapolated to other wetlands in the region. Nevertheless, the impacts of tailings contaminants, wetland reclamation activities, and surface water chemistry are well-represented in the literature. Research on other types of land disturbance is lacking. A coordinated, regional monitoring program is needed to gain a complete understanding of the direct and indirect impacts of human development in the region and to address remaining knowledge gaps.

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Drivers, pressures, and state responses to inform long-term oil sands wetland monitoring program objectives

Ficken

Connor

Rooney

et al. 2021

Wetlands Ecol Manage

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“…2009; Huang et al, 2020) and metal pollution index, heavy metal evaluation index, degree of contamination index, and water quality index (Tokatli & Fikret, 2020). Past studies have adopted different Indicators to assess the health of wetland such as aquatic macro invertebrates as bio-indicator (Sharma & Rawat, 2009), amphibian (Dupler et al, 2020), ora and fauna (Irfan et al, 2020), soil and water Indicator (Montgomery & Eames, 2008), heavy metals (Zhang et al, 2014), eutrophication concentration, and toxic release from agriculture activities ( Lu et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2020). Kolkata Metropolitan Area is surrounded by acclaimed wetlands of East Kolkata wetland, Hooghly River, Rabindra sarovar lake, several ponds and other small water bodies ).…”

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Wetland health assessment using DPSI framework: a case study in Kolkata Metropolitan Area

Mohibul¹,

Sarif²,

Parveen³

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The wetland area has been threatening and degrading due to unplanned built up expansion, improper management of solid waste and sewerage water, waste water from agriculture and industrial sector, and siltation. The Kolkata Metropolitan Area is considered one of the most vital regions in terms of wetland ecosystem. Therefore, the aim of present research is to assess the factors responsible for wetland health and analyze their dynamicity by using the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact (DPSI) framework. To assess the wetland health for the timeframe between 2011 and 2020, seventeen indicators and four sub indicators were selected to compute the weight through Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results manifested that most municipalities was in "healthy" category under pressure (P) part in 2011 while uctuation were observed at multiple stations from 2011 to 2020 under impact (I) section. The state (S) part showed the overall transformation in water, vegetation and built-up class from 2011 to 2020. So the most dominating category was "healthy", followed by "unhealthy" and "poor". The highly signi cant factors that deteriorate the health of wetland were (B1) Population density, (B3) Road density, (B5) Per capita Sewerage generation, and (B7) Per capita solid waste generation, (D1a) BOD, (D1b) DO, (D1c) pH and (D1d) Total Coliform. The outcome of the research will contribute to develop for sustainable conservation and management of wetland ecosystem in urban area. Moreover could be applied at global level with similar geographical conditions.

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Body condition based on scaled mass index in adult Pelophylax ridibundus (Amphibia: Ranidae) inhabiting a polluted area in Southern Bulgaria

Zhelev,

Minchev

2023

Biologia

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Rapid Assessment of Wetland Condition Reflects Amphibian Community Composition

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Drivers, pressures, and state responses to inform long-term oil sands wetland monitoring program objectives

Drivers, pressures, and state responses to inform long-term oil sands wetland monitoring program objectives

Wetland health assessment using DPSI framework: a case study in Kolkata Metropolitan Area

Body condition based on scaled mass index in adult Pelophylax ridibundus (Amphibia: Ranidae) inhabiting a polluted area in Southern Bulgaria

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