A national pilot scheme for monitoring and assessment of ecological integrity of surface waters in China

Wang, Yeyao; Enjiang, Teng; Tingliang, Liu; Lv, Yibing; Jin, Xiaowei; Giesy, John P.; Hollert, Henner

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2014.02.003

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“…Ongoing monitoring of the area should be based on the triad approach with additional lines of evidence as a holistic assessment method considering not only pollutant concentrations, but also ecotoxicological aspects and hydrological factors. Integrating these factors in environmental monitoring has also been suggested by Wang et al (2014) for Chinese water bodies and Wernersson et al (2015) for European water bodies.…”

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Linking Ah receptor mediated effects of sediments and impacts on fish to key pollutants in the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir, China — A comprehensive perspective

Floehr

Scholz-Starke

Xiao

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

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Linking Ah receptor mediated effects of sediments and impacts on fish to key pollutants in the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir, China — A comprehensive perspective

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Xiao

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

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“…More attention should be given to the monitoring of toxic heavy metals due to inherent bioaccumulation and biomagnification potentials and their long term persistence in environmental compartments [ 8 ]. Monitoring of the integrity of surface waters is significant in order to be assured of the sustainability of desired ecosystem functions of aquatic environments [ 9 ]. Heavy metal contamination is a major problem in growing cities of developing countries primarily due to uncontrolled pollution levels driven by causative factors like industrial growth and heavy increase in traffic using petroleum fuels [ 10 ].…”

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Potential health risk consequences of heavy metal concentrations in surface water, shrimp (Macrobrachium macrobrachion) and fish (Brycinus longipinnis) from Benin River, Nigeria

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Enuneku³

et al. 2019

Toxicology Reports

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“…Broader studies on the ecological status and water quality of rivers based on macroinvertebrates were conducted and pilot schemes for monitoring and assessment of those were implemented. These include, amongst others, [28,44] and [64]. Evidently, the biological assessment of rivers is gradually brought to attention of Chinese river management.…”

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Ecological Indicators for Surface Water Quality - Methodological Approaches to Fish Community Assessments in China and Germany

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Pander

Geist

2021

Terrestrial Environmental Sciences

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Assessments of aquatic ecosystem health rely increasingly on biological indicators such as fish community structure, but national approaches differ. To use bioindicators efficiently and to allow cross-country comparisons, standardized tools and methods are required. Within this study, currently applied procedures for stream ecosystem assessment in China and Germany are summarized and active and passive fish sampling methodologies used in both countries are investigated. The methodological comparison was based on the results of a joint Chinese German workshops within the SINOWATER project in 2016. A joint sampling campaign was then conducted in 2017 at 6 representative sites within 70 km of the Fan River, a tributary to the Liao River System in Liaoning province, China. Active methods comprised single-pass electrofishing methods as typically applied in Germany and China as well as seining. As passive methods, common minnow traps, gill-netting and longline-fishing were used. To allow the comparability between methods, a standardized sampling design comprising several replicates at each site was chosen, covering a range of different ecological stream conditions. By comparison of the different fishing methodologies, electrofishing yielded the best overall results to assess fish biodiversity in terms of species abundance, richness and catch per unit effort. Differences in the effectiveness of the different electrofishing approaches mostly depended on the power source used. To cover the full spectrum of the fish community and to detect very rare species, a combination of different active and passive methods was most useful. If electrofishing is the method of choice, it is very important to adjust the gear power to river specific conditions such as flow, size and depth. The results of this joint Chinese-German study may aid in the selection of suitable sampling methods for fish community assessments in the future.

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A national pilot scheme for monitoring and assessment of ecological integrity of surface waters in China

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Linking Ah receptor mediated effects of sediments and impacts on fish to key pollutants in the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir, China — A comprehensive perspective

Linking Ah receptor mediated effects of sediments and impacts on fish to key pollutants in the Yangtze Three Gorges Reservoir, China — A comprehensive perspective

Potential health risk consequences of heavy metal concentrations in surface water, shrimp (Macrobrachium macrobrachion) and fish (Brycinus longipinnis) from Benin River, Nigeria

Ecological Indicators for Surface Water Quality - Methodological Approaches to Fish Community Assessments in China and Germany

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