RIVPACS models for predicting the expected macroinvertebrate fauna and assessing the ecological quality of rivers

Clarke, Ralph T.; Wright, J. F.; Furse, M.T.

doi:10.1016/s0304-3800(02)00255-7

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“…The ASPT (Armitage et al, 1983;Chesters, 1980), TAXA (number of BMWP scoring taxa), total species richness, CCI (Chadd and Extence, 2004) and AWIC (Davy-Bowker et al, 2005) metrics were used to provide an initial assessment of overall status in 2007 and change from previous surveys (1990 and 1998). ASPT and TAXA metrics were also standardised using the RIVPACS IV model (Clarke et al, 2003;Davy-Bowker et al, 2008) within the River Invertebrate classification tool (www.rict.org.uk) to provide an overall assessment of macroinvertebrate ecological status under the EU Water Framework Directive. Likewise for macrophytes, Mean Trophic Rank (Holmes et al, 1999) and total species richness metrics were calculated and compared with those from the 1998 survey.…”

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Measuring stock and change in the GB countryside for policy – Key findings and developments from the Countryside Survey 2007 field survey

Norton

Maskell

Smart

et al. 2012

Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Current Condition and Changes In Condition Of Habitats And Lmentioning

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Measuring stock and change in the GB countryside for policy – Key findings and developments from the Countryside Survey 2007 field survey

Norton

Maskell

Smart

et al. 2012

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…The original 268 unstressed reference sites selected across Britain demonstrated a strong relationship between environmental features and faunal characteristics (Wright 1994 Figure 9. Summer isotherms and the distributions of butterflies, Orthoptera, Odonata and staphilinid beetles using smoothed species-richness data from BRC mapping schemes (from Loder 1990; Thomas 1995). predicts, from the physical environment, the macroinvertebrate community expected for any site if it were in an unstressed condition, and compares that prediction with the observed community found on the site, thereby generating an index of its ecological quality status (Clarke et al 2003). Since its initial calibration, the RIVPACS model has been refined (Moss 2000), extended to new regions, tested and shown to be remarkably robust (Clarke 2000).…”

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Monitoring change in the abundance and distribution of insects using butterflies and other indicator groups

Thomas

2005

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Conservative estimates suggest that 50-90% of the existing insect species on Earth have still to be discovered, yet the named insects alone comprise more than half of all known species of organism. With such poor baseline knowledge, monitoring change in insect diversity poses a formidable challenge to scientists and most attempts to generalize involve large extrapolations from a few wellstudied taxa. Butterflies are often the only group for which accurate measures of change can be obtained. Four schemes, used successfully to assess change in British butterflies, that are increasingly being applied across the world are described: Red Data Books (RDB) list the best judgements of experts of the conservation status of species in their field of expertise; mapping schemes plot the changing distributions of species at scales of 1-100 km 2 ; transect monitoring schemes generate time series of changes in abundance in sample populations of species on fixed sites across the UK; and occasional surveys measure the number, boundaries and size of all populations of a (usually RDB) species at intervals of 10-30 years. All schemes describe consistent patterns of change, but if they are to be more generally useful, it is important to understand how well butterflies are representative of other taxa. Comparisons with similarly measured changes in native bird and plant species suggest that butterflies have declined more rapidly that these other groups in Britain; it should soon be possible to test whether this pattern exists elsewhere. It is also demonstrated that extinction rates in British butterflies are similar to those in a range of other insect groups over 100 years once recording bias is accounted for, although probably lower than in aquatic or parasitic taxa. It is concluded that butterflies represent adequate indicators of change for many terrestrial insect groups, but recommended that similar schemes be extended to other popular groups, especially dragonflies, bumblebees, hoverflies and ants. Given institutional backing, similar projects could be employed internationally and standardized. Finally, a range of schemes designed to monitor change in communities of aquatic macro-invertebrates is described. Although designed to use invertebrates as a bio-indicator of water quality for human use, these programmes could be extended to monitor the 2010 biodiversity targets of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

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“…The number of sites with IBI-scores N 46 was 944, which could be grouped in 25 types of references using RIVPACS-type (River Invertebrate Prediction and Classification System) modelling of species occurrences (Clarke et al, 2003). Bray-Curtis dissimilarities (Bray and Curtis, 1957) between the RIVPACS-predicted species composition and the observed species were calculated for the 944 sites.…”

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Eco-epidemiology of aquatic ecosystems: Separating chemicals from multiple stressors

Posthuma

Dyer

Zwart³

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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RIVPACS models for predicting the expected macroinvertebrate fauna and assessing the ecological quality of rivers

Cited by 248 publications

References 15 publications

Measuring stock and change in the GB countryside for policy – Key findings and developments from the Countryside Survey 2007 field survey

Measuring stock and change in the GB countryside for policy – Key findings and developments from the Countryside Survey 2007 field survey

Monitoring change in the abundance and distribution of insects using butterflies and other indicator groups

Eco-epidemiology of aquatic ecosystems: Separating chemicals from multiple stressors

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