Finding clean water habitats in urban landscapes: professional researcher vs citizen science approaches

McGoff, Elaine; Dunn, Francesca; Cachazo, Luis Moliner; Williams, Penny; Biggs, Jeremy; Nicolet, Pascale; Ewald, Naomi C.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.215

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“…In the latter case the concentration of nitrates was close to the limit value, set in the wastewater management regulations (Ministry of Environment, 2006) and did not differentiate from it statistically significantly. A similar level of NO 3 --N was also detected in urban streams in London (McGoff et al, 2017) and in Spanish rivers with low agricultural intensity in catchments areas (Moreno et al, 2006). The ecological status classes of the investigated rivers with respect to the concentration of nitrates were as follows: Girstupis and Veršvas -high, Sėmena and Vėžpienis -good, Marvelė -moderate (Ministry of Environment, 2007) ( Fig.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Overabundance of these elements poses severe health risks for humans, and for other life forms through bioaccumulation through food chains. Pollution of small urban water bodies is a widespread problem (Paul and Meyer, 2001;Ellis and Butler, 2015;Revitt and Ellis, 2016); however, there is a lack of data describing the quality and the specific pollution sources of freshwaters in urban areas (McGoff et al, 2017). Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the pollution of secondary rivers of Nemunas, flowing in Kaunas city, with respect to concentrations of biogenic nitric and phosphorus compounds as well as heavy metals in water and bottom sediments of the rivers.…”

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Pollution of Small Kaunas Rivers with Biogenic Compounds and Heavy Metals

Kacienė

2018

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The pollution of surface water bodies with biogenic compounds and heavy metals is a serious global concern for environment as well as for human health. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the pollution of secondary rivers of Nemunas, flowing in Kaunas city, with respect to concentrations of biogenic nitric and phosphorus compounds as well as heavy metals in water and bottom sediments of the rivers. The samples of water and bottom sediments were taken in the influxes of Sėmena, Girstupis, Marvelė, Vėžpienis and Veršvas. The concentrations of inorganic nitric compounds (ammonium, nitrites and nitrates), and phosphates as well as heavy metals (Zn and Cu) in water and bottom sediments were investigated. Sėmena was found to be the cleanest river, as its ecological status class varied from high (with respect to phosphates) to moderate (with respect to ammonium). Girstupis was highly polluted with phosphates; however, it showed a relatively good ecological status class with respect to nitric compounds. High concentration of phosphates was also found in Veršvas; however, contrary to Girstupis, this river contained exceptionally high concentration of reduced nitric compounds (ammonium). Vėžpienis and Marvelė were the most polluted rivers, with most of the nitric and phosphorus compounds exceeding the limit values set in the wastewater management regulations. These rivers were attributed to the poor or bad ecological status class with respect to ammonium and the good or moderate ecological status class with respect to nitrates and/or phosphates. The concentrations of Zn were relatively low in the investigated Kaunas rivers; however, the concentration of Cu was found to be almost 3-times higher than the limit value in Sėmena, Girstupis and Veršvas.

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Section: Concentration Of Biogenic N and P Compoundssupporting

confidence: 62%

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confidence: 99%

Pollution of Small Kaunas Rivers with Biogenic Compounds and Heavy Metals

Kacienė

2018

EREM

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“…This situation mirrors what happened with spring habitats [17], and often leaves these habitats at the mercy of human tampering outside the network of protected areas and natural parks where landscape alterations have accumulated in the last centuries [18]. This is imputable to the relatively small dimensions and the high intrinsic structural and biotic complexity of SWEs, which greatly limit the possibility of establishing general conservation measures, as well as acquiring statutory quality data or naturalness values [19]. Recently, similar reflections have been advanced and discussed by Hunter et al [8], stressing the pivotal contribution of small natural features (SNF) to the global biodiversity conservation priorities, in opposition to the role of more extensive ecosystems.…”

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Ecological and Conservation Value of Small Standing-Water Ecosystems: A Systematic Review of Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

Bolpagni

Poikāne

Laini

et al. 2019

Water

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A small standing-water ecosystem (SWE) is a shallow (<20 m) lentic water body with a surface of a few hectares (≤10 ha). Compared to larger counterparts, they exhibit wider ecotones, sometimes even equaling their whole surface, which maximizes structural heterogeneity, supporting exceptionally high biodiversity, metabolic rates, and functionality. Surprisingly, no binding regulations support global strategies for SWE conservation. This work consists of a literature review performed for the period 2004–2018 to assess the ecological and conservation value of SWEs and the contribution of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in promoting their conservation. Outcomes from this work open new perspectives on SWEs, which emerge as valuable ecosystems, and confirm their pivotal contribution to watershed biodiversity, resilience, and functionality. Results also suggest clear narrative trends and large knowledge gaps across geographical areas, biological components, and target issues. Additionally, we note that SWEs are under-represented in the frame of WFD implementation, stressing their marginality into assessing procedures. All of this calls for further studies, especially outside Europe and with a global, multi-taxon perspective. These should be devoted to quantitatively assess the roles of SWEs in maintaining global water ecosystem quality, biodiversity, and services, and to prioritize management actions for their conservation.

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“…Citizens' role in some of these project is, for example: -Recognition of images (e.g. taken with robot boat) to verify whether the wild life exists or not in the water (BrooklynAtlantis, 2012); -Water sample collection for localization of clean water habitats in urban landscapes (McGoff, et al, 2017); -Micro and macroscale nutrient concentration monitoring (Loiselle, et al, 2016;Yuchao, et al, 2017); -Quantification of anthropogenic litter on lake beaches (Vincent, et al, 2017); -Water turbidity and water clarity monitoring [ (Leeuw & Boss, 2018); (Seafarers, et al, 2017)].…”

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Citizen Science for Water Quality Monitoring Applying Foss

Jovanovic¹,

Carrión²,

Brovelli³

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Citizen science is an efficient tool for data collection for scientific projects. In the framework of SIMILE Interreg Italy-Switzerland project, the citizen’s contribution to monitor the quality of lakes water has been envisaged. In the initial phase of this research, state of art of citizen science and water quality monitoring was investigated. The analysis of past and current projects, governed by different organizations and communities, pointed out a variety of tasks that can be accomplished by citizens. In these studies, authors stressed suitability of smartphones for the fulfilment of various assignments given to citizens. Due to that, in this research, different smartphone applications for water quality monitoring were tested and analyzed. Despite the fact that many applications for water quality monitoring are freely available, none of them is open source. Hence, this paper is proposing the design of a new application, for the purposes of SIMILE project, that will be free and open source, addressing not just users but also developers giving them a possibility for customization and improvement.</p>

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Finding clean water habitats in urban landscapes: professional researcher vs citizen science approaches

Cited by 38 publications

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Pollution of Small Kaunas Rivers with Biogenic Compounds and Heavy Metals

Pollution of Small Kaunas Rivers with Biogenic Compounds and Heavy Metals

Ecological and Conservation Value of Small Standing-Water Ecosystems: A Systematic Review of Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

Citizen Science for Water Quality Monitoring Applying Foss

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