Development of a fish-based index of biotic integrity (FIBI) to assess the quality of Bandama River in Côte d’Ivoire

Aboua, Benié Rose Danielle; Kouamelan, Essétchi Paul; N’douba, Valentin

doi:10.1051/kmae/2012002

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“…Notwithstanding, the 02p10 highest significant difference observed between HER13 and HER14 in SD2 and SD3 clearly support and reinforce that obtained from HER sites, indicating a deeply consistent difference between HER13 sites vs. HER14 ones based on metrics. These outputs confirmed the usefulness of t-test to evaluate differences between metrics, as shown by Aboua et al (2012). The importance of using metrics as sites descriptors was further confirmed by Spearman's correlation between physico-chemicals PCs vs. metrics since almost all metrics (excepted for evenness) were significantly correlated with PC1.…”

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Assessing the influence of source distance and hydroecoregion on the invertebrate assemblage similarity in central Italy streams

Traversetti

Scalici

2014

Knowl. Managt. Aquatic Ecosyst.

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Key-words:HER, macroinvertebrate, monitoring, source distance, watercourse Increasing the river habitat safeguard level is one of the main actions proposed by the European Water Framework Directive in the field of biomonitoring. To do so, watercourses within the same hydroecoregions (that is, homogeneous areas based on climate, geology and topography) ought to be compared. In addition, the source distance was thought to play an important role in comparing rivers and then planning monitoring activities. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if both hydroecoregion and source distance affect the response (in terms of taxa assemblage) of one of the most used group in the river monitoring activities: the benthic macroinvertebrate. Here we proposed the comparative influence of hydroecoregion and source distance on the invertebrate assemblage in Mediterranean rivers of central Italy. Our statistical outputs highlighted how macroinvertebrate differed for both hydroecoregions and source distance ranks. In particular, no differences were found among sites of different (1) source distance ranks and (2) hydroecoregion (that is, when this two descriptors were analyzed separately), while the highest difference in the macroinvertebrate assemblage was observed between the same source distance ranks of different hydroecoregions. Our results showed how the use of both hydroecoregion and source distance should be considered for planning monitoring activities to properly manage rivers and water resources.

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confidence: 68%

Assessing the influence of source distance and hydroecoregion on the invertebrate assemblage similarity in central Italy streams

Traversetti

Scalici

2014

Knowl. Managt. Aquatic Ecosyst.

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“…Most wetlands in western African region, especially in Burkina Faso, are often characterized by forests, rivers/streams, and several stocking waters, including different communities making them ecologically and socio-economically important network habitat types. In this study, we found most of them as reported in (Melcher et al, 2012;Mano et al, 2020), which have already been suggested as bio-indicators of environmental conditions in tropical freshwater ecosystems (Aboua et al, 2012;Meulenbroek et al, 2019). Importantly, using fish community-based approaches (frequencies and structure) and/or sentinel species was well known to measure habitat conditions or overall condition of wetland ecosystems.…”

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Preliminary biological data of Sahel wetland ecosystems in Burkina Faso: Implications for ecological health assessment

Kaboré

Tampo

Bancé

et al. 2022

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Birds, amphibians, fish, and macroinvertebrates are useful indicators of ecological conditions and ensure considerable conservation value and tools for decision making in management of wetland ecosystems. However, the use of these organisms to monitor wetland ecosystems has rarely been explored in Western Africa. Whereas, we are currently facing to growing multiple anthropogenic pressures and climate warming that impact negatively our wetlands and the biodiversity. Notably, there is an urgent need of cost-effective tools for wetland ecosystems health assessment in Burkina Faso. In this study, we examined the taxonomic composition of birds, amphibians, fish, and macroinvertebrates and explored their potential use for monitoring wetland ecosystems. From our findings, measures of taxa composition and diversity respond to the gradients of anthropogenic alterations. Our results revealed that the highest diversity of fish and macroinvertebrates taxa was recorded in protected sites, whereas the lowest diversity was obtained in degraded sites. Additionally, the findings showed a strong and positive correlation between macroinvertebrates taxa and key water variables, whereas fish taxa were strongly correlated to xylal (deadwood) substrates. Most of bird’s species were recorded in tree-shrubs, and amphibians of protected wetlands were distinguished by identifying indicator taxa through indicator value index. African wetland ecosystems and biodiversity may be sustainably preserved through responsive monitoring programs of wetlands by limnologists.

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“…Metal pollution which enter the aquatic environment from natural or Industrial waste sources, is one of the five main kind toxic pollutants in the water due to its physical and chemical properties, as well as low degradation and the possibility of its interaction with the organic materials in the aquatic environment and forming more toxic compounds and may have ability to accumulation in the tissue of organisms (4)(5)(6). Fish is a vital indicator of pollution in the aquatic environment and is used to study the toxic effect of many pollutants through the study of fish behavior, biochemical and histological changes as well as metal bioaccumulation (6)(7)(8). There are many studies about the metal accumulation in internal organs, liver consider main organ for metal and toxic detoxification which may show histopathological changes as a result of metals bioaccumulation (9,10).…”

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Bioaccumulation of heavy metals and histopathological changes in muscles of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) in the Iraqi rivers

Al-Jumaa¹,

AL-Taee²,

Nahi³

et al. 2020

IJVS

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The aim of this study is to evaluate the contamination status of Iraqi rivers in the north of the Tigris river (Tikrit city) and the middle region of Euphrates (Babylon Governorate). In this study As, Zn, Fe, Pb, and Cu in the muscle tissue of carp fish were measured. The results show that the concentration of arsenic in the fish muscles in the middle region was 425.05 ppm higher than its concentration of about 192.25 ppm in fish muscle in the Tigris river with statistical significance (P<0.05). Which it causes histopathological changes characterized by Zenker's necrosis in skeletal muscle and infiltration of inflammatory cells with edema additional to edematous dermatitis. Other heavy metals in fish muscle were less than in fish muscles which agreement with the international legislation limits. Also, there were positive correlation ships between Zn and Pb and between Cu and Zn. While negative correlation has been detected between arsenic and both Pb and Zn. This study is concluded that the accumulation of heavy metals causes histological changes in fish muscle provides an opportunity to assess fish health as well as information on possible health hazards coming from their environment.

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Development of a fish-based index of biotic integrity (FIBI) to assess the quality of Bandama River in Côte d’Ivoire

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Assessing the influence of source distance and hydroecoregion on the invertebrate assemblage similarity in central Italy streams

Assessing the influence of source distance and hydroecoregion on the invertebrate assemblage similarity in central Italy streams

Preliminary biological data of Sahel wetland ecosystems in Burkina Faso: Implications for ecological health assessment

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals and histopathological changes in muscles of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) in the Iraqi rivers

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