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Fanton H, Affre L, Franquet E, Bertrand C, Cavalli L, Dumas E, Guiller C, Kaldonski N, Meineri E, Mutillod C, Oursel B, Pavon D, Thorel M, Tatoni T, Fayolle S. Heavy ionic pollution disrupts assemblages of algae, macroinvertebrates and riparian vegetation. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 331:121791. [PMID: 37201567 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Urban streams display consistent ecological symptoms that commonly express degraded biological, physical, and chemical conditions: the urban stream syndrome (USS). Changes linked to the USS result in consistent declines in the abundance and richness of algae, invertebrates, and riparian vegetation. In this paper, we assessed the impacts of extreme ionic pollution from an industrial effluent in an urban stream. We studied the community composition of benthic algae and benthic invertebrates and the indicator traits of riparian vegetation. The dominant pool of benthic algae, benthic invertebrates and riparian species were considered as euryece. However, ionic pollution impacted these three biotic compartments' communities, disrupting these tolerant species assemblages. Indeed, after the effluent, we observed the higher occurrence of conductivity-tolerant benthic taxa, like Nitzschia palea or Potamopyrgus antipodarum and plant species reflecting nitrogen and salt contents in soils. Providing insights into organisms' responses and resistance to heavy ionic pollution, this study sheds light on how industrial environmental perturbations could alter the ecology of freshwater aquatic biodiversity and riparian vegetation.
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- Hadrien Fanton
- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France.
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- IMBE, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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Cheng C, Zhang F, Shi J, Kung HT. What is the relationship between land use and surface water quality? A review and prospects from remote sensing perspective. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:56887-56907. [PMID: 35708802 PMCID: PMC9200943 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21348-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Good surface water quality is critical to human health and ecology. Land use determines the surface water heat and material balance, which cause climate change and affect water quality. There are many factors affecting water quality degradation, and the process of influence is complex. As rivers, lakes, and other water bodies are used as environmental receiving carriers, evaluating and quantifying how impacts occur between land use types and surface water quality is extremely important. Based on the summary of published studies, we can see that (1) land use for agricultural and construction has a negative impact on surface water quality, while woodland use has a certain degree of improvement on surface water quality; (2) statistical methods used in relevant research mainly include correlation analysis, regression analysis, redundancy analysis, etc. Different methods have their own advantages and limitations; (3) in recent years, remote sensing monitoring technology has developed rapidly, and has developed into an effective tool for comprehensive water quality assessment and management. However, the increase in spatial resolution of remote sensing data has been accompanied by a surge in data volume, which has caused difficulties in information interpretation and other aspects.
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- Chunyan Cheng
- College of Geography and Remote Sensing Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China
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- College of Geography and Remote Sensing Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China.
- Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China.
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- Departments of Earth Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA
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- Departments of Earth Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA
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Bhat SU, Khanday SA, Islam ST, Sabha I. Understanding the spatiotemporal pollution dynamics of highly fragile montane watersheds of Kashmir Himalaya, India. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 286:117335. [PMID: 34051690 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Pollution of riverine ecosystems through the multidimensional impact of human footprints around the world poses a serious challenge. Research studies that communicate potential repercussions of landscape structure metrics on snowmelt riverine water quality particularly, in climatically fragile Himalayan watersheds are very scarce. Though, worldwide, grasping the influence of land-use practices on water quality (WQ) has received renewed attention yet, the relevance of spatial scale linked to landscape pattern is still elusive due to its heterogenic nature across diverse geomorphic regions. In this work, therefore, we tried to capture the insights on landscape-aquascape interface by juxtapositioning the impacts of landscape structure pattern on snowmelt stream WQ of the whole Jhelum River Basin (JRB) under three varying spatial scales viz., watershed scale, riparian corridor (1000 m wide) and reach buffer (500 m wide). The percentage of landscape pattern composition and configuration metrics in the JRB were computed in GIS utilizing Landsat-8 OLI/TIRS satellite image having 30 m resolution. To better explicate the influence of land-use metrics on riverine WQ with space and time, we used Redundancy analysis (RDA) and multilinear regression (MLR) modeling. MLR selected land-use structure metrics revealed the varied response of WQ parameters to multi-scale factors except for total faecal coliform bacteria (TC) which showed perpetual presence. The reach-scale explained slightly better (76%) variations in WQ than riparian (75%) and watershed (70%) scales. Likewise, across seasonal scale, autumn (75%), winter (83%), and summer (77%) captured the most WQ variation at catchment, riparian, and reach scales respectively. We observed impairing WQ linkages with agriculture, built-up and barren rocky areas across watersheds, besides, pastures in riparian buffer areas, and fragmentation of landscape patches at the reach scale. Due to little appearance of spatial scale differences, a multi scale perspective landscape planning is emphasized to ensure future sustainability of Kashmir Himalayan water resources.
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- Sami Ullah Bhat
- Department of Environmental Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, India.
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, India
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, India
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- Department of Environmental Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, India
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Amusan BO, Adu BW. Trace metal pollution and its impacts on the macroinvertebrate community assemblage in a tropical reservoir. Afr J Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/aje.12828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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- Department of Biology Federal University of Technology Akure Nigeria
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Griffith MB, McManus MG. Consideration of spatial and temporal scales in stream restorations and biotic monitoring to assess restoration outcomes: A literature review, Part 1. RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS 2020; 36:1385-1397. [PMID: 33364915 PMCID: PMC7751668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Stream and river restoration practices have become common in many parts of the world. We ask the question whether such restorations improve freshwater biotic assemblages or functions over time, and if not, can general reasons be identified for such outcomes. We conducted a literature survey and review of studies in which different types of stream restorations were conducted and outcomes reported. These restoration types included culvert restoration; acid mine restoration or industrial pollutant restoration; urban stream restoration; dam removal, changes in dam operation, or fish passage structures; instream habitat modification; riparian restoration or woody material addition; channel restoration and multiple restorations. The streams ranged from headwater streams to large rivers, and the regions included North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and a small number of sites in Asia and Africa. In this part of the review, we describe the methods used for the review and present reviews for the first three types of stream restorations. For culvert restorations, the small sample size and variable study design and biotic responses limited generalizing about temporal and spatial scale effects for that restoration type. The complex and often lengthy time to restore streams from acid mine drainage and industrial pollutants often resulted in positive biotic responses, but restored sites had reduced responses compared to reference sites. Most urban stream restorations had minimal or mixed improvements in biotic responses, with one mismatch in spatial scale evidenced by hydraulic structures used in a restoration unable to withstand peak discharge.
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- Michael B. Griffith
- U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Current affiliation: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Current affiliation: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Stanford B, Jones H, Zavaleta E. Meta-analysis of the effects of upstream land cover on stream recovery. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 2019; 33:351-360. [PMID: 30004134 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Revised: 06/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Unpredictable or variable ecosystem recovery from disturbance presents a challenge to conservation, particularly as the scale of human disturbance continues to increase. Theory suggests land-cover and disturbance characteristics affect recovery, but individual studies of disturbance and recovery frequently struggle to uncover generalizable patterns because of high levels of site-specific variation. To understand how land-cover, disturbance type, and disturbance duration influence ecosystem recovery, we used studies documenting recovery of 50 streams to perform a global meta-analysis of stream recovery from disturbances that affect water quality (e.g., oil spill, fire, wastewater). We extracted upstream natural and urban land-cover percentages for each site and performed model selection and averaging to identify influences on recovery completeness. Most streams improved following the end of a disturbance (median 240% of disturbed condition) but did not recover fully to baseline predisturbance condition within the studied period (median study period 2 years; median recovery 60% of baseline). Scale of disturbance in time and space did not predict recovery, but sites with higher percentages of upstream natural land cover had less complete recovery relative to sites with more urban or agricultural cover, possibly due to higher baseline conditions in these streams. Our findings suggest impacts to systems with low anthropogenic stress may be more irreversible than impacts to already modified systems. We call for more long-term evaluations of ecosystem response to disturbance and the inclusion of regional references and predisturbance reference conditions for comparison. A more thorough understanding of the role of the surrounding landscape in shaping stream response to disturbance can help managers calibrate expectations for recovery and prioritize protection.
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- Bronwen Stanford
- Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, & Energy, Northern Illinois University, Montgomery 448, DeKalb, IL 60115, U.S.A
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A
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Whorley SB, Smucker NJ, Kuhn A, Wehr JD. Urbanisation alters fatty acids in stream food webs. FRESHWATER BIOLOGY 2019; 64:984-996. [PMID: 31447492 PMCID: PMC6707523 DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Fatty acids are essential to macroinvertebrate growth and reproduction and can indicate food web structure and nutritional quality of basal resources. However, broad-scale examinations of how catchment land cover and associated stressors affect the proportions of fatty acids (FAs) in stream food webs are few.Here, we: (1) examine relationships among proportions of FAs among benthic periphyton and macroinvertebrate collector/gatherers, shredders, and predators; and (2) test if relationships between periphytic and macroinvertebrate FAs were altered due to the intensity of urban development in catchments.Proportions of the ≥20-C eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA 20:5ω3), arachidonic acid (ARA 20:4ω6), and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6ω3) indicated collector/gatherers had a diet richer in periphyton than in shredders, which had significantly lower proportions of these FAs. Collector/gatherers were in turn likely to be high-quality sources of ω3 and ≥ 20-C FAs for predators, which also had significantly greater EPA and ARA proportions than those in shredders. Linoleic (18:2ω6) and α-linolenic acid (18:3ω3) comprised the greatest proportions of FAs in shredders, which suggested a diet dominated by leaf litter and associated hyphomycetes.As catchment urbanisation increased, proportions of total ω3 FAs and EPA in periphyton were significantly greater. This pattern also was seen through macroinvertebrate consumers and predators, given that proportions of these FAs in macroinvertebrates also were significantly correlated with factors associated with catchment urbanisation. The significant increase in total ω3 FAs and EPA proportions within shredders indicated that periphyton growth, and their FAs, increased on leaf litter, probably due to greater nutrient concentrations associated with catchment urbanisation. Proportions of total ω6 FAs in biota were not significantly correlated with factors associated with urban development, which could indicate that they were of sufficient abundance for consumers regardless of urban intensity or possible changes in their sources.Our study provides an informative first step that identified notable differences in proportions of FAs among macroinvertebrates in urban streams and an increase in proportions of total ω3 FAs and EPA in periphyton, consumers, and predators as catchment urbanisation increases. Identifying how FA relationships within food webs change in response to catchment alterations and stressors could inform land use and management decisions by linking environmental changes to measures important to ecosystem outcomes.
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- Sarah B Whorley
- Natural Sciences Department, Daemen College, Amherst, NY, USA
- Louis Calder Center-Biological Field Station and Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Armonk, NY, USA
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- United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Systems Ecology Division, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, USA
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- Louis Calder Center-Biological Field Station and Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Armonk, NY, USA
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Damanik-Ambarita MN, Boets P, Nguyen Thi HT, Forio MAE, Everaert G, Lock K, Musonge PLS, Suhareva N, Bennetsen E, Gobeyn S, Ho TL, Dominguez-Granda L, Goethals PL. Impact assessment of local land use on ecological water quality of the Guayas river basin (Ecuador). ECOL INFORM 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gołdyn R, Szpakowska B, Świerk D, Domek P, Buxakowski J, Dondajewska R, Barałkiewicz D, Sajnóg A. Influence of stormwater runoff on macroinvertebrates in a small urban river and a reservoir. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 625:743-751. [PMID: 29306163 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Revised: 12/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/28/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The impact of stormwater on benthic macroinvertebrates was studied in two annual cycles. Five small catchments drained by stormwater sewers to a small urban river and a small and shallow reservoir situated in its course were selected. These catchments were located in residential areas with single-family houses or blocks of flats as well as industrial areas, i.e., a car factory, a glassworks and showroom as well as the parking lots of a car dealer and servicing company. In addition to the five stations situated in the vicinity of the stormwater outlets, three stations not directly influenced by stormwater were also established. Macroinvertebrates were sampled in every season, four times per year. Both abundance and biomass were assessed. Stormwater from industrial areas associated with cars, whose catchments showed a high percentage of impervious areas, had the greatest impact on benthic macroinvertebrates. This was due to a large amount of stormwater and its contamination, including heavy metals. Stormwater outflow from residential multi-family houses exerted the least influence. Macroinvertebrates in the water reservoir were found to undergo more extensive changes than those in the river. The cascade of four reservoirs resulted in a marked improvement of water quality in the river, which was confirmed by species composition, abundance and biomass of macroinvertebrates and indicators calculated on their basis for the stations below the cascade in comparison to the stations above and in the first reservoir. These reservoirs replaced constructed wetlands or other measures, which should be undertaken for stormwater management prior to its discharge into urban rivers and other water bodies.
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- Ryszard Gołdyn
- Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
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- Department of Landscape Architecture, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Landscape Architecture, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
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- Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
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- Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
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- Department of Trace Elements Analysis by Spectroscopy Method, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
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- Department of Trace Elements Analysis by Spectroscopy Method, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
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Ecological Models to Infer the Quantitative Relationship between Land Use and the Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community. WATER 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/w10020184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Smucker NJ, Kuhn A, Cruz-Quinones CJ, Serbst JR, Lake JL. Stable isotopes of algae and macroinvertebrates in streams respond to watershed urbanization, inform management goals, and indicate food web relationships. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 2018; 90:295-304. [PMID: 29805317 PMCID: PMC5967652 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Watershed development and anthropogenic sources of nitrogen are among leading causes of negative impacts to aquatic ecosystems around the world. The δ15N of aquatic biota can be used as indicators of anthropogenic sources of nitrogen enriched in 15N, but this mostly has been done at small spatial extents or to document effects of point sources. In this study, we sampled 77 sites along a forest to urban land cover gradient to examine food webs and the use of δ15N of periphyton and macroinvertebrate functional feeding groups (FFGs) as indicators of watershed development and nitrogen effects on streams. Functional feeding groups had low δ15N variability among taxa within sites. Mean absolute differences between individual taxa and their respective site FFG means were < 0.55‰, whereas site means of δ15N of FFGs had ranges of approximately 7-12‰ among sites. The δ15N of periphyton and macroinvertebrate FFGs distinguished least disturbed streams from those with greater watershed urbanization, and they were strongly correlated with increasing nitrogen concentrations and watershed impervious cover. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling, using δ15N of taxa, showed that changes in macroinvertebrate assemblages as a whole were associated with forest-to-urban and increasing nitrogen gradients. Assuming an average +3.4‰ per trophic level increase, δ15N of biota indicated that detrital pathways likely were important to food web structure, even in streams with highly developed watersheds. We used periphyton and macroinvertebrate FFG δ15N to identify possible management goals that can inform decisions affecting nutrients and watershed land use. Overall, the δ15N of periphyton and macroinvertebrates were strong indicators of watershed urban development effects on stream ecosystems, and thus, also could make them useful for quantifying the effectiveness of nitrogen, stream, and watershed management efforts.
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- Nathan J Smucker
- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Systems Ecology Division, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, USA
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- University of Puerto Rico c/o Environmental Protection Agency, Greater Research Opportunities for Undergraduates Program, USA
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- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, USA
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- Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, USA
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Hawley RJ, Goodrich JA, Korth NL, Rust CJ, Fet EV, Frye C, MacMannis KR, Wooten MS, Jacobs M, Sinha R. DETENTION OUTLET RETROFIT IMPROVES THE FUNCTIONALITY OF EXISTING DETENTION BASINS BY REDUCING EROSIVE FLOWS IN RECEIVING CHANNELS. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION 2017; 53:1032-1047. [PMID: 30294203 PMCID: PMC6171122 DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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By discharging excess stormwater at rates that more frequently exceed the critical flow for stream erosion, conventional detention basins often contribute to increased channel instability in urban and suburban systems that can be detrimental to aquatic habitat and water quality, as well as adjacent property and infrastructure. However, these ubiquitous assets, valued at approximately $600,000 per km2 in a representative suburban watershed, are ideal candidates to aid in reversing such cycles of channel degradation because improving their functionality would not necessarily require property acquisition or heavy construction. The objective of this research was to develop a simple, cost-effective device that could be installed in detention basin outlets to reduce the erosive power of the relatively frequent storm events (~ < two-year recurrence) and provide a passive bypass to maintain flood control performance during infrequent storms (such as the 100-year recurrence). Results from a pilot installation show that the Detain H2O device reduced the cumulative sediment transport capacity of the preretrofit condition by greater than 40%, and contributed to reduced flashiness and prolonged baseflows in receiving streams. When scaling the strategy across a watershed, these results suggest that potential gains in water quality and stream channel stability could be achieved at costs that are orders of magnitude less than comparable benefits from newly constructed stormwater control measures.
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- Robert J Hawley
- Sustainable Streams LLC, 1948 Deer Park Ave., Louisville, Kentucky 40205
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- Water Infrastructure Protection Division, USEPA Office of Research & Development, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268
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- Sustainable Streams LLC, 1948 Deer Park Ave., Louisville, Kentucky 40205
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- Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky, Fort Wright, Kentucky 41017
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- Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky, Fort Wright, Kentucky 41017
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- Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky, Fort Wright, Kentucky 41017
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- Boone County Conservation District, Burlington, Kentucky 41005
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Societal Drivers of European Water Governance: A Comparison of Urban River Restoration Practices in France and Germany. WATER 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/w9030206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pennino MJ, McDonald RI, Jaffe PR. Watershed-scale impacts of stormwater green infrastructure on hydrology, nutrient fluxes, and combined sewer overflows in the mid-Atlantic region. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2016; 565:1044-1053. [PMID: 27261425 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 05/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/15/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Stormwater green infrastructure (SGI), including rain gardens, detention ponds, bioswales, and green roofs, is being implemented in cities across the globe to reduce flooding, combined sewer overflows, and pollutant transport to streams and rivers. Despite the increasing use of urban SGI, few studies have quantified the cumulative effects of multiple SGI projects on hydrology and water quality at the watershed scale. To assess the effects of SGI, Washington, DC, Montgomery County, MD, and Baltimore County, MD, were selected based on the availability of data on SGI, water quality, and stream flow. The cumulative impact of SGI was evaluated over space and time by comparing watersheds with and without SGI, and by assessing how long-term changes in SGI impact hydrologic and water quality metrics over time. Most Mid-Atlantic municipalities have a goal of achieving 10-20% of the landscape drain runoff through SGI by 2030. Of these areas, Washington, DC currently has the greatest amount of SGI (12.7% of the landscape drained through SGI), while Baltimore County has the lowest (7.9%). When controlling for watersheds size and percent impervious surface cover, watersheds with greater amounts of SGI have less flashy hydrology, with 44% lower peak runoff, 26% less frequent runoff events, and 26% less variable runoff. Watersheds with more SGI also show 44% less NO3(-) and 48% less total nitrogen exports compared to watersheds with minimal SGI. There was no significant reduction in phosphorus exports or combined sewer overflows in watersheds with greater SGI. When comparing individual watersheds over time, increases in SGI corresponded to non-significant reductions in hydrologic flashiness compared to watersheds with no change in SGI. While the implementation of SGI is somewhat in its infancy in some regions, cities are beginning to have a scale of SGI where there are statistically significant differences in hydrologic patterns and water quality.
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- Michael J Pennino
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
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- Global Cities Program, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Smucker NJ, Kuhn A, Charpentier MA, Cruz-Quinones CJ, Elonen CM, Whorley SB, Jicha TM, Serbst JR, Hill BH, Wehr JD. Quantifying Urban Watershed Stressor Gradients and Evaluating How Different Land Cover Datasets Affect Stream Management. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2016; 57:683-95. [PMID: 26614349 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-015-0629-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Watershed management and policies affecting downstream ecosystems benefit from identifying relationships between land cover and water quality. However, different data sources can create dissimilarities in land cover estimates and models that characterize ecosystem responses. We used a spatially balanced stream study (1) to effectively sample development and urban stressor gradients while representing the extent of a large coastal watershed (>4400 km(2)), (2) to document differences between estimates of watershed land cover using 30-m resolution national land cover database (NLCD) and <1-m resolution land cover data, and (3) to determine if predictive models and relationships between water quality and land cover differed when using these two land cover datasets. Increased concentrations of nutrients, anions, and cations had similarly significant correlations with increased watershed percent impervious cover (IC), regardless of data resolution. The NLCD underestimated percent forest for 71/76 sites by a mean of 11 % and overestimated percent wetlands for 71/76 sites by a mean of 8 %. The NLCD almost always underestimated IC at low development intensities and overestimated IC at high development intensities. As a result of underestimated IC, regression models using NLCD data predicted mean background concentrations of NO3 (-) and Cl(-) that were 475 and 177 %, respectively, of those predicted when using finer resolution land cover data. Our sampling design could help states and other agencies seeking to create monitoring programs and indicators responsive to anthropogenic impacts. Differences between land cover datasets could affect resource protection due to misguided management targets, watershed development and conservation practices, or water quality criteria.
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- Nathan J Smucker
- Atlantic Ecology Division, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellow c/o Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI, USA.
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- Atlantic Ecology Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Narragansett, RI, USA
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- Greater Research Opportunities for Undergraduates Program, University of Puerto Rico c/o Environmental Protection Agency, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Mid-continent Ecology Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Duluth, MN, USA
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- Louis Calder Center-Biological Field Station and Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Armonk, NY, USA
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- Mid-continent Ecology Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Duluth, MN, USA
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- Atlantic Ecology Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Narragansett, RI, USA
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- Mid-continent Ecology Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Duluth, MN, USA
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- Louis Calder Center-Biological Field Station and Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Armonk, NY, USA
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Mackintosh TJ, Davis JA, Thompson RM. The influence of urbanisation on macroinvertebrate biodiversity in constructed stormwater wetlands. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2015; 536:527-537. [PMID: 26245534 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2015] [Revised: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The construction of wetlands in urban environments is primarily carried out to assist in the removal of contaminants from wastewaters; however, these wetlands have the added benefit of providing habitat for aquatic invertebrates, fish and waterbirds. Stormwater quantity and quality is directly related to impervious area (roads, sealed areas, roofs) in the catchment. As a consequence, it would be expected that impervious area would be related to contaminant load and biodiversity in receiving waters such as urban wetlands. This study aimed to establish whether the degree of urbanisation and its associated changes to stormwater runoff affected macroinvertebrate richness and abundance within constructed wetlands. Urban wetlands in Melbourne's west and south east were sampled along a gradient of urbanisation. There was a significant negative relationship between total imperviousness (TI) and the abundance of aquatic invertebrates detected for sites in the west, but not in the south east. However macroinvertebrate communities were relatively homogenous both within and between all study wetlands. Chironomidae (non-biting midges) was the most abundant family recorded at the majority of sites. Chironomids are able to tolerate a wide array of environmental conditions, including eutrophic and anoxic conditions. Their prevalence suggests that water quality is impaired in these systems, regardless of degree of urbanisation, although the causal mechanism is unclear. These results show some dependency between receiving wetland condition and the degree of urbanisation of the catchment, but suggest that other factors may be as important in determining the value of urban wetlands as habitat for wildlife.
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- Teresa J Mackintosh
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
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- Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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- Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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Zahawi RA, Reid JL, Holl KD. Passive restoration can be an effective strategy: a reply to Prach and del Moral (2015). Restor Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.12249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Rakan A. Zahawi
- Las Cruces Biological Station & Wilson Botanical Garden; Organization for Tropical Studies; Apdo 73-8257 San Vito de Coto Brus Costa Rica
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development; Missouri Botanical Garden; P.O. Box 299 St. Louis MO 63166-0299 U.S.A
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- Environmental Studies Department, Norris Center for Natural History; University of California, Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz CA 95064 U.S.A
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Palmer MA, Hondula KL, Koch BJ. Ecological Restoration of Streams and Rivers: Shifting Strategies and Shifting Goals. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2014. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 289] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ecological restoration has grown rapidly and now encompasses not only classic ecological theory but also utilitarian concerns, such as preparedness for climate change and provisioning of ecosystem services. Three dominant perspectives compete to influence the science and practice of river restoration. A strong focus on channel morphology has led to approaches that involve major Earth-moving activities, such as channel reconfiguration with the unmet assumption that ecological recovery will follow. Functional perspectives of river restoration aim to regain the full suite of biogeochemical, ecological, and hydrogeomorphic processes that make up a healthy river, and though there is well-accepted theory to support this, research on methods to implement and assess functional restoration projects is in its infancy. A plethora of new studies worldwide provide data on why and how rivers are being restored as well as the project outcomes. Measurable improvements postrestoration vary by restoration method and measure of outcome.
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- Margaret A. Palmer
- Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland 20688
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland 21401
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- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland 21401
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- Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland 20688
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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