Land use effects on habitat, water quality, periphyton, and benthic invertebrates in Waikato, New Zealand, hill‐country streams

Quinn, John M.; Cooper, Alan; Davies‐Colley, Robert J.; Rutherford, James; Williamson, R. Bruce

doi:10.1080/00288330.1997.9516791

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“…However, we found the influences of gravel and granite based geologies were small in relation to those of land use, which appeared to have an overriding influence on invertebrate community structure, particularly in streams that flowed through pastoral farmland. The percentage of shredders, and biotic indices (in particular MCI) were predictably higher in the native forest streams than the pastoral streams in both the Moutere gravel and Separation Point granite geologies, as has been found elsewhere (Quinn & Hickey 1990a;Scott et al 1994, Harding & Winterbourn 1995; Quinn et al 1997;Townsend et al 1997;Collier et al 2000;Quinn 2000;Hall et al 2001). …”

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Influences of geology and land use on macroinvertebrate communities across the Motueka River catchment, New Zealand

Shearer

Young

2011

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

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The influences of geology and land use on macroinvertebrate communities were investigated in the Motueka River catchment, New Zealand. Comparisons of functional feeding groups, multivariate community composition and biotic indices (MCI, QMCI, %EPT) were made between native forest stream reaches that differed in subcatchment geology (ultramafic, hard sedimentary, granite, gravel, karst) and between stream reaches surrounded by different land uses (native forest, exotic forest and pasture) within two of these geologies (granite, gravel). Differences in invertebrate community density and taxon richness were greater across the three land uses in the same geology than among the five geologies. Macroinvertebrate communities in streams flowing through native forest had greater numbers of shredders, and higher MCI scores than pastoral streams. Exotic forest macroinvertebrate communities were similar to the native forest communities in granite geology, but distinct from both native and pastoral communities in sites with underlying gravel geology. The results demonstrate that there is potential for underlying geology to influence the magnitude of land use impacts on invertebrate communities. The geologies within a catchment should be accounted for when considering the consequences of land development on river and stream communities.

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Influences of geology and land use on macroinvertebrate communities across the Motueka River catchment, New Zealand

Shearer

Young

2011

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

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“…Macroinvertebrates are more likely to respond to local habitat conditions, such as reach land cover, substrates, sedimentation, velocity, and pollution. This is because changes from forests to paddy fields or urban in land cover increase the sediment input to streams, which alters substrate composition (Lenat and Crawford, 1994;Quinn et al, 1997). Meanwhile, fish, which have greater mobility and longevity, are more influenced by larger spatial conditions, such as catchment land cover, geology, and hydrology (Richards et al, 1997;Sponseller et al, 2001;Black et al, 2004;Flinders et al, 2008).…”

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Relationships between three major stream assemblages and their environmental factors in multiple spatial scales

Bae

Kwon

Hwang

et al. 2011

Ann. Limnol. - Int. J. Lim.

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-This study investigated the relationships of three major aquatic assemblages (diatom, macroinvertebrate, and fish) and environmental variables, including sub-basin, hydrology, land cover, and water quality variables on multiple scales. Samples were collected at 720 sampling sites on the Korean nationwide scale. Geological variables, including altitude and slope, showed a strong positive correlation with proportions of forest in land cover types and cobbles in substrates, while they were negatively correlated with water quality variables, including conductivity and total phosphorus. Considering the concordance of the different assemblages, species richness of fish and macroinvertebrates displayed significant correlation, and diatoms were significantly correlated with fish. However, diatoms did not show significant correlation with macroinvertebrates. Altitude and slope showed significant correlation with all biological variables of the three assemblages. Macroinvertebrates and fish showed positive relations with large substrate sizes. Indices of diatoms and macroinvertebrates well reflected the perturbation of water quality variables. However, fish indices showed a relatively low association with water quality variables, compared with those of diatoms and macroinvertebrates. These patterns were also confirmed by the ordination and prediction of biological indices with environmental variables through the learning process of a self-organizing map as well as random forest. Overall, our study supports the concept of multi-scale habitat filters and functional organization in streams, and is consistent with the recommended use of multiple biological indices with more than one assemblage for the assessment of the biotic integrity of aquatic ecosystems.

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“…For finer substrate material that could be entrained easily in the water column, we used a modification of the suspendable sediment technique employed by Quinn et al (1997). We placed a 14.6 cm diameter tube fitted with a foam collar on the streambed to form a temporary still-water pool.…”

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“…Catchment land use has been identified as a major influence on the biotic composition and ecosystem functioning of streams in New Zealand (Harding & Winterbourn 1995;Hicks 1997;Quinn et al 1997;Quinn 2000) and elsewhere (Richards et al 1996;Wang et al 1997;Sponseller et al 2001). Alterations to nutrient loading (Cooper & Thomsen 1988;Biggs & Close 1989;Allan et al 1997), solar energy flux and organic matter inputs (Hicks 1997), hydrology (Davies-Colley 1997), and sediment inputs (Rothrock et al 1998;Nerbonne & Vondracek 2001;Zweig & Rabeni 2001) have been implicated as factors that influence community and ecosystem parameters such as biodiversity, nutrient cycling, energy flux, and food-web characteristics.…”

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Headwater stream response to grassland agricultural development in New Zealand

Riley

Townsend

Niyogi

et al. 2003

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

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Agricultural development of native grasslands may change stream physico-chemistry in ways that provide both subsidies and stresses to the system. The aims of this study were to determine: (1) which physico-chemical parameters respond most strongly to agricultural development; (2) how biodiversity, community composition, and food-web structure responded to these changes; and (3) to determine the balance between negative and positive impacts of these subsidies and stresses based on the analysis of 18 headwater streams. Developed pasture streams had increased nutrient loading, alterations to streamside vegetation, increased fine sediment composition, and lower moss coverage of streambeds than undeveloped or lightly grazed native grassland catchments (which could not be distinguished from one another). These differences were associated with higher numbers of macroinvertebrate taxa and higher numbers of macroinvertebrates indicating that the net effects of these subsidies and stresses associated with agricultural development were positive within these headwater stream reaches.

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Land use effects on habitat, water quality, periphyton, and benthic invertebrates in Waikato, New Zealand, hill‐country streams

Cited by 288 publications

References 46 publications

Influences of geology and land use on macroinvertebrate communities across the Motueka River catchment, New Zealand

Influences of geology and land use on macroinvertebrate communities across the Motueka River catchment, New Zealand

Relationships between three major stream assemblages and their environmental factors in multiple spatial scales

Headwater stream response to grassland agricultural development in New Zealand

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