Ecological relevance of biomarkers in monitoring studies of macro-invertebrates and fish in Mediterranean rivers

Colin, Nicole; Porte, Cinta; Fernandes, Denise; Barata, Carlos; Padrós, Francesc; Carrassón, Maite; Monroy, Mario Muñoz; Cano-Rocabayera, Oriol; Sostoa, Adolfo de; Piña, Benjamı́n; Maceda‐Veiga, Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.099

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“…Many pollutants can explain their absence (e.g. Keenan et al, 2004;Colin et al, 2016), but a peak in ammonium concentration is likely to be a major causal factor in our study, as it is highly toxic to fish at high pH and temperature values (Camargo and Alonso, 2006). In spring, however, water quality largely improved in the most upstream tested sites and fish were neither recorded.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…However, the perfect tool to determine ecosystem health does not exist, and it is the combination of indicators of impairment at different levels of biological organisation (e.g. individual, community, and ecosystem) that will give us the best diagnostic picture (Friberg et al, 2011;Colin et al, 2016). In conclusion, this study suggests that there is an urgent need to invest in wastewater treatment in this industry to preserve the ecological integrity of Ripoll River and especially the connectivity between native fish populations that were the most affected taxa.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, this study cannot fully assess the recovery of the aquatic biota, as effects may be visible at other levels of biological organisation than those examined in this study (e.g. ecosystem metabolism, biochemical pathways) (Damásio et al, 2007;Colin et al, 2016). Likewise, pollutants can accumulate in tissues of aquatic organisms such as fish (Maceda-Veiga et al, 2013;Monroy et al, 2014) and so be transferred to predators such the European otter (Lutra lutra, Ruiz-Olmo et al, 2001) that has been recently recorded close to our study area.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Although the textile industry was the major causal factor to our results, this study cannot fully rule out the effects that other stressors such as run-off from adjacent crops (Moss, 2008) and biological invasions, including the invasive plant Arundo donax , may have had on the aquatic community. Thus, studies using more specific indicators of chemical pollution (see biomarkers in Colin et al (2016)) are needed to fully understand how organisms respond to industrial effluents in this Mediterranean river. As biomarkers have a phylogenetic component, their use can also help to increase the predictive ability of current biomonitoring schemes across study areas.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Water birds [12,13], macro-invertebrates and fish [14,15], plants [16], and water quality [17] data have been used to reflect wetland health conditions. These field observation data cannot be widely applied on a large spatial scale [18] and have difficulty providing spatially and temporally explicit assessments [19].…”

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Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Health in the Yangtze and Amazon River Basins

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Abstract:As "kidneys of the earth", wetlands play an important role in ameliorating weather conditions, flood storage, and the control and reduction of environmental pollution. With the development of local economies, the wetlands in both the Amazon and Yangtze River Basins have been affected and threatened by human activities, such as urban expansion, reclamation of land from lakes, land degradation, and large-scale agricultural development. It is necessary and important to develop a wetland ecosystem health evaluation model and to quantitatively evaluate the wetland ecosystem health in these two basins. In this paper, GlobeLand30 land cover maps and socio-economic and climate data from 2000 and 2010 were adopted to assess the wetland ecosystem health of the Yangtze and Amazon River Basins on the basis of a pressure-state-response (PSR) model. A total of 13 indicators were selected to build the wetland health assessment system. Weights of these indicators and PSR model components, as well as normalized wetland health scores, were assigned and calculated based on the analytic hierarchy process method. The results showed that from 2000 to 2010, the value of the mean wetland ecosystem health index in the Yangtze River Basin decreased from 0.482 to 0.481, while it increased from 0.582 to 0.593 in the Amazon River Basin. This indicated that the average status of wetland ecosystem health in the Amazon River Basin is better than that in the Yangtze River Basin, and that wetland health improved over time in the Amazon River Basin but worsened in the Yangtze River Basin.

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IBRtools: An R package for calculating integrated biomarker indexes

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2024

Ecology and Evolution

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Multibiomarker studies are useful to evaluate the early warning signs of environmental degradation, and their unified responses are often assessed through two common indexes, Integrated Biomarker Response (IBR) and Integrated Biological Responses version 2 (IBRv2). The R package IBRtools allows users to calculate both IBR and IBRv2 while simultaneously incorporating all the biomarkers under evaluation. The package includes functions for calculating the indexes IBR and IBRv2 and obtaining their standardized values, as well a function for radar chart creation and three example datasets. Here we describe the main algorithms involved in IBR and IBRv2 calculations, a description of the novel package and illustrate a workflow using data examples available on the package to guide the user on how to accurately acquire the values for either the IBR index or the IBRv2 index. The IBRtools package provides a user‐friendly platform for R users to obtain IBR index and IBRv2 values, making it straightforward even for large datasets.

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Ecological relevance of biomarkers in monitoring studies of macro-invertebrates and fish in Mediterranean rivers

Cited by 140 publications

References 161 publications

Ecological impact and recovery of a Mediterranean river after receiving the effluent from a textile dyeing industry

Ecological impact and recovery of a Mediterranean river after receiving the effluent from a textile dyeing industry

Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Health in the Yangtze and Amazon River Basins

IBRtools: An R package for calculating integrated biomarker indexes

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