Assessing the relationship between the Lake Habitat Survey and littoral macroinvertebrate communities in European lakes

McGoff, Elaine; Aroviita, Jukka; Pilotto, Francesca; Miler, Oliver; Solimini, Angelo G.; Porst, Gwendolin; Jurca, Tamara; Donohue, Louise; Sandin, Leonard

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.09.018

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“…The pressure-response relationships documented so far mainly refer to the effects of lake acidification (Johnson et al, 2007;Johnson and Goedkoop, 2006) and eutrophication (Bazzanti et al, 2012;Donohue et al, 2009;Tolonen et al, 2001). Studies on the effects of hydromorphological alterations on littoral macroinvertebrates have remained scarce, while knowledge recently is steeply increasing (Brauns et al, 2007a(Brauns et al, ,b, 2011McGoff and Irvine, 2009;McGoff et al, 2013;Porst et al, 2012).…”

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Morphological alterations of lake shores in Europe: A multimetric ecological assessment approach using benthic macroinvertebrates

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Porst

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“…hydromorphology) (e.g. Brauns et al, 2007aBrauns et al, ,b, 2011Jurca et al, 2012;McGoff et al, 2013;Porst et al, 2012;.…”

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Morphological alterations of lake shores in Europe: A multimetric ecological assessment approach using benthic macroinvertebrates

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“…Site condition scores were not reliably related to diversity in most cases: of the 11 taxa, richness/diversity of only 2 taxa (birds and wasps) was significantly correlated with the site condition score. McGoff et al (2013) used multivariate analyses in empirical tests of the relationship of two scoring protocols for lake shore habitat and patterns of diversity (taxon richness, Shannon-Wiener diversity index, and several macroinvertebrate metrics) in 14 macroinvertebrate taxa in 4 European regions. Although in some cases selected macroinvertebrate metrics were significantly correlated with habitat scores, there was no relationship between overall lakeshore index scores and macroinvertebrate diversity metrics across all the regions (McGoff et al 2013).…”

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“…McGoff et al (2013) used multivariate analyses in empirical tests of the relationship of two scoring protocols for lake shore habitat and patterns of diversity (taxon richness, Shannon-Wiener diversity index, and several macroinvertebrate metrics) in 14 macroinvertebrate taxa in 4 European regions. Although in some cases selected macroinvertebrate metrics were significantly correlated with habitat scores, there was no relationship between overall lakeshore index scores and macroinvertebrate diversity metrics across all the regions (McGoff et al 2013). Taken together, these findings suggest that a scorecard approach is likely to be of limited use in representing patterns of biological diversity across multiple taxonomic groups, perhaps because biological processes operate at different scales for the different species using a site, and that empirical validation is essential.…”

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Ecological integrity assessment as a metric of biodiversity: are we measuring what we say we are?

Brown

Williams

2016

Biodivers Conserv

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As the recognition of the importance of biological diversity in biological conservation grows, an ongoing challenge is to develop metrics that can be used for effective conservation and management. The ecological integrity assessment has been proposed as such a metric. It is held by some to measure species composition, diversity, and habitat quality, as well as ecosystem structure, composition, and function. The methodology relies on proxy variables that include data on landscape characteristics such as patch size, abiotic factors such as hydrology, and some features of vegetation structure and composition. We suggest that the measure is flawed on four levels. First, its putative representation of general ecological form and function, and its lack of specific detail about how it actually represents those attributes, leaves the metric without the focus needed to be useful for measuring ecological features on the ground and testing associated hypotheses and predictions. Second, the proxy variables used to represent biological diversity, such as habitat (vegetation) metrics and vascular plant species diversity, are not empirically correlated with diversity of a range of taxa or of other components of the biota. Third, like other ecological indices that integrate many distinct features, the ecological integrity index is subject to the loss of information in its condensation of multi-dimensional variability into a one-dimensional index, and it may be subject to systematic bias from the conversion of raw data into categorical scores. Fourth, the sampling protocols are at risk of sampling bias, observer bias, and measurement error, any of which can confound the estimation of conservation value. In terms of biological diversity, the methodology produces an unreliable estimate of the number of vascular plant species and their relative percentages of occurrence, and an absence of any protocols for taxa other than plants. For these reasons 123Biodivers Conserv (2016) 25:1011-1035 DOI 10.1007/s10531-016-1111 we believe that ecological integrity assessment is currently of limited value as a measure of site-specific biological diversity and its change over time. A considerable amount of investigation is needed in order to have confidence in the results of an ecological integrity assessment, especially if it is to be used for regulatory purposes. We suggest further refinements and discuss alternative measures of biological diversity that provide reliable metrics for assessing change. A thoughtful choice among measures can help to identify the most appropriate assessment for conservation decisions.

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“…The Greek methodology is based on Irish and UK assessment methods, used for LHS development [12,13] with some additions from Finland [14]. LHS is acknowledged as a useful method for assessing the conservation value of temperate lake shores, but still remains to be seen whether it can be applied across a range of different European lake types [15]. In Greece, there are no recordings of its use nor its functioning, besides Petriki et al [16] where it was used in a fragmented way.…”

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Impact Assessment of Habitat and Hydromorphological Alterations in Two Heavily Modified Lakes

2018

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A description of hydromorphological pressures is required by the Water Framework Directive, however, there is not a commonly accepted assessment method. This study aims to explore a description tool application, not used before in Greece, for the quantification of the human impact extent on natural environment. Thus, in lakes Kastoria and Pamvotis, the Lake Habitat Survey was applied in the field and remotely to map the pressures, to examine confidence, suitability and ease of applicability through plot quantitative description, to calculate the "Lake Habitat Quality Assessment", "Lake Habitat Modification Score" and "Alteration of Lake Morphology Score" indices.

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Assessing the relationship between the Lake Habitat Survey and littoral macroinvertebrate communities in European lakes

Cited by 47 publications

References 35 publications

Morphological alterations of lake shores in Europe: A multimetric ecological assessment approach using benthic macroinvertebrates

Morphological alterations of lake shores in Europe: A multimetric ecological assessment approach using benthic macroinvertebrates

Ecological integrity assessment as a metric of biodiversity: are we measuring what we say we are?

Impact Assessment of Habitat and Hydromorphological Alterations in Two Heavily Modified Lakes

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