2007
DOI: 10.1890/06-0392
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Stream Ecosystem Response to Limestone Treatment in Acid Impacted Watersheds of the Allegheny Plateau

Abstract: Restoration programs are expanding worldwide, but assessments of restoration effectiveness are rare. The objectives of our study were to assess current acid-precipitation remediation programs in streams of the Allegheny Plateau ecoregion of West Virginia (USA), identify specific attributes that could and could not be fully restored, and quantify temporal trends in ecosystem recovery. We sampled water chemistry, physical habitat, periphyton biomass, and benthic macroinvertebrate and fish community structure in … Show more

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“…Lines are linear fits to log 10 -transformed data: ently because most of the taxa at all of our sites were acid tolerant and present at similar abundance. The three taxa, Amphinemura, Leuctra, and Ostrocerca, that accounted for the vast majority (73-94%) of all shredders across our sites, are considered acid tolerant (McClurg et al 2007), and their abundance was unrelated to pH and k in our study. There was, however, one taxon, Lepidostoma, that was fairly abundant (4-14% of all invertebrates) at some sites and its abundance explained ;37% of the variation in k across sites.…”
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“…Lines are linear fits to log 10 -transformed data: ently because most of the taxa at all of our sites were acid tolerant and present at similar abundance. The three taxa, Amphinemura, Leuctra, and Ostrocerca, that accounted for the vast majority (73-94%) of all shredders across our sites, are considered acid tolerant (McClurg et al 2007), and their abundance was unrelated to pH and k in our study. There was, however, one taxon, Lepidostoma, that was fairly abundant (4-14% of all invertebrates) at some sites and its abundance explained ;37% of the variation in k across sites.…”
Section: K S Simon Et Al 1154mentioning
confidence: 68%
“…In general, restoration efforts have met with mixed success. Water chemistry often improves, but the change is typically spatially and temporally variable (McClurg et al 2007). In some cases, an improvement in water chemistry is accompanied by increased invertebrate and fish abundance and diversity (e.g., Hudy et al 2000).…”
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