Rapid assessment of rivers using macroinvertebrates: A procedure based on habitat‐specific sampling, family level identification and a biotic index

Chessman, Bruce C.

doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.1995.tb00526.x

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“…Chessman 1985;Hilsenhoff 1987;Stark 1985Stark , 1993Stark , 1998 on stream communities. It was, therefore, not surprising that MCI scores were relatively similar among the geologies, given that all of the samples were deliberately taken in native forest streams.…”

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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 the most commonly used organisms to assess the biological quality of streams in monitoring programs (Hawkes 1979;Hellawell 1986;Chessmann 1995). Biological monitoring usually has two purposes: (1) to estimate variables of interest at a site and (2) to make comparisons among sites or time intervals.…”

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“…Live sorting is frequently applied in the Netherlands, Southern European countries (Buffagni, CNR-IRSA, personal communication), and Germany (Braukmannn 2000). Live sorting is also commonly applied in Australia for the rapid biological assessment of rivers (Metzeling et al 2003), either for set periods (Chessman and Robinson 1987) or until a fixed number of specimens is collected (Chessmann 1995).…”

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Comparison of bioassessment results and costs between preserved and unpreserved macroinvertebrate samples from streams

Keizer-Vlek

Goedhart

Verdonschot

2010

Environ Monit Assess

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The choice to use or not use a preservative before sorting macroinvertebrate samples (i.e., dead specimens vs. living specimens) is based on studies not solely focused on the effects of preservation. Using identical sample processing protocols, we compared preserved and unpreserved samples for the following parameters: (1) the number of taxa and individuals for each major macroinvertebrate group, (2) ecological quality classes calculated with a multimetric index developed for the assessment of small Dutch lowland streams, and (3) costs of sample processing. We collected macroinvertebrate samples from three lowland streams in the Netherlands. At each site, we collected six replicate samples, of which three samples were preserved and three were not. Significantly different numbers of Ephemeroptera individuals and Hydracarina taxa and individuals were collected from preserved samples compared to unpreserved samples. In assessments based on these individual metrics, standardiza- tion of sample processing will be required. In streams with Ephemeroptera, the preservation of samples is necessary to optimize the number of Ephemeroptera individuals collected. In streams that contain Hydracarina, the preservation of samples will result in an underestimation of the number of Hydracarina taxa and individuals present. In only one instance there was a difference in ecological quality between preserved and unpreserved samples, indicating that assessing small Dutch lowland streams does not require standardization of sample preservation as part of the sample processing protocol. We detected no significant differences in sample processing costs between preserved and unpreserved samples.

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“…In running waters, benthic macroinvertebrates (macrozoobenthos) are considered as one of the best indicators of habitat quality, very conventionally called as "river health", and this is why they are widely used for water quality assessments (e.g., Hellawel 1986; Rosenberg & Resh 1993;Chessman 1995;Wright 1995). The effort to separate the anthropogenic stress effects from differences related to natural conditions (Rossaro & Pietrangelo 1993) is recently obvious especially in connection with the WFD monitoring programmes (e.g., Rollaufs et al 2004;Helešic 2006).…”

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Macrozoobenthos response to environmental degradation in a heavily modified stream: Case study the Upper Elbe River, Czech Republic

Adámek

Orendt

Wolfram³

et al. 2010

Biologia

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Benthic macroinvertebrates are an important indicator of river health. However, their response upon water quality development downstream the pollution outlets considerably depends on the environmental habitat characteristics. Three successive stretches, each of them providing three different mesohabitats in stillwater (S), torrential (T) and riparian (R) zones were selected for evaluation of the impact of altered metapotamal river bed morphology (channelization) and chemical determinants of water quality on the Upper Elbe River. In downstream direction, the stretches are separated by weirs and characterized as a low polluted low modified natural stream (N), a low polluted channelized stream (C) and a channelized polluted stream (CP). Altogether, 111 benthic macroinvertebrate taxa were recorded in the Pardubice hotspot between Němčice and Přelouč. Despite different levels of stream bed and water quality degradation, micro-and mesohabitat characteristics appeared to be the most important factors determining the diversity of macrozoobenthos in riffle (substrate size structure) and in shoreline (macrophyte community composition and structure) mesohabitats. The diversity of macroinvertebrate communities was highest in riparian mesohabitats compared to stillwater and torrential ones. Saprobic indices increased in downstream direction, thus indicating the decline of water quality.

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Rapid assessment of rivers using macroinvertebrates: A procedure based on habitat‐specific sampling, family level identification and a biotic index

Cited by 296 publications

References 37 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

Comparison of bioassessment results and costs between preserved and unpreserved macroinvertebrate samples from streams

Macrozoobenthos response to environmental degradation in a heavily modified stream: Case study the Upper Elbe River, Czech Republic

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