The effects of an abandoned roast yard on the fish and macroinvertebrate communities of surrounding beaver ponds

Rutherford, Jane E.; Mellow, R. J.

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“…Group: 1, no AMD impact (n = 5); 2, intermittent AMD (n = 3); 3, acidic AMD (n = 4); 4, neutral AMD (n = 3); 5, higher order (n = 4). also responded to AMD impacts, as has been observed in other studies (e.g., Roback and Richardson 1969;Armitage 1980;Rutherford and Mellow 1994), increasing in relative abundance at the acidic AMD stations compared with unimpacted sites. These findings suggest that this watershed was a good system to use in a comparison of transplanted Asian clam responses to AMD with those of the resident community.…”

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In situ studies with Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) detect acid mine drainage and nutrient inputs in low-order streams

Soucek¹,

Schmidt²,

Cherry³

2001

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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In situ Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea [Müller]) studies may effectively mirror resident community responses to both acute toxicants and nutrient inputs in low-order streams. Clam survival and growth after 30 days in situ were compared with benthic macroinvertebrate community structural changes caused by acid mine drainage (AMD) and nutrient loading (measured as nitrate) in a small subwatershed of the North Fork Powell River, Virginia, U.S.A. Clam survival distinguished between two different levels of impact due to acidic, neutralized, and intermittent AMD inputs and was positively correlated with water column pH and negatively correlated with conductivity and metal concentrations. Survival was also positively correlated with relative abundance of the order Ephemeroptera, the most sensitive macroinvertebrate taxonomic group to AMD in this system. Clam growth was not related to AMD inputs but was positively correlated with nitrate concentrations and the relative abundance of the collector-filterer functional feeding group. These results suggest that transplanted clam studies accurately reflect benthic macroinvertebrate community responses to multiple stressors from point and nonpoint sources.Résumé : Des études in situ sur la Mye asiatique (Corbicula fluminea [Müller]) peuvent représenter de façon réaliste les réactions de la communauté qui habite des ruisseaux d'ordre inférieur tant à des contaminations aiguës qu'à des apports de nutriments. La survie des myes et leur croissance après 30 jours in situ ont été comparées aux changements dans la structure de la communauté de macroinvertébrés benthiques causés par des rejets miniers acides (AMD) et des charges de nutriments (mesurées en nitrates) dans un petit sous-bassin hydrographique de la rivière North Fork Powell, en Virginie, aux U.S.A. Les données de survie des myes permettent de distinguer deux niveaux d'impacts causés par des apports d'AMD acides, neutralisés et intermittents; la survie est en corrélation positive avec le pH de la colonne d'eau et en corrélation négative avec la conductivité et les concentrations de métaux. La survie est aussi corrélée positivement avec l'abondance relative des Éphéméroptères, le groupe taxonomique de macroinvertébrés le plus sensible à l'AMD dans ce réseau. La croissance des myes n'est pas en corrélation avec les apports d'AMD, mais elle est directement reliée aux concentrations de nitrates et à l'abondance relative de la guilde alimentaire des collecteurs-filtreurs. Ces résultats laissent croire que des études sur des myes transplantées dans des cours d'eau reflètent de façon précise les réactions de la communauté de macroinvertébrés benthiques à des sources de stress multiples d'origine définie et diffuse.[Traduit par la Rédaction] Soucek et al. 608

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In situ studies with Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) detect acid mine drainage and nutrient inputs in low-order streams

Soucek¹,

Schmidt²,

Cherry³

2001

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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“…In 1995, the USEPA Office of Surface Mining reported that acid mine drainage, or AMD, was the single greatest threat to water quality in the Appalachian Mountain region of the USA. In addition, the effects of AMD on benthic macroinvertebrates have been extensively documented (Smith and Frey 1971;Herricks and Cairns 1974;Armitage 1980;Rutherford and Mellow 1994;Cherry et al 1995Cherry et al , 1997Cherry et al , 2001Winterbourn and McDiffet 1996) and have shown that biodiversity is generally reduced in streams impacted by AMD. Specifically, Clements (1991) found I. bicolor to be highly sensitive to heavy metals.…”

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Preliminary results of laboratory toxicity tests with the mayfly, Isonychia bicolor (Ephemeroptera: Isonychiidae) for development as a standard test organism for evaluating streams in the Appalachian coalfields of Virginia and West Virginia

Echols

Currie

Cherry

2009

Environ Monit Assess

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Selecting the most appropriate test species for sediment and water column assays has been a primary goal for ecotoxicologists. Standard test organisms and established test guidelines exist, but the USEPA-recommended species may not be the most sensitive organisms to anthropogenic inputs. This paper describes preliminary results of toxicity tests with the mayfly, Isonychia bicolor (Ephemeroptera). Results suggested that Isonychia were moderately sensitive to NaCl after 96 h with an average LC(50) value of 3.10 g NaCl per liter. This value decreased after 7 days of exposure, resulting in a mean LC(50) value of 1.73 g NaCl per liter. When exposed to a coal-mine-processed effluent, Isonychia generated LC(50) values that ranged from 13% to 39% effluent. I. bicolor were more sensitive to the coal processing effluent than Ceriodaphnia dubia with conductivity lowest observable effects concentration (LOEC) values for mayfly survivorship that ranged from 1,508 to 4,101 microS/cm, while LOEC values for C. dubia reproduction ranged from 2,132 to 4,240 microS/cm.

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“…Rutherford and Mellow (1994) have documented similar effects in borderline circumneutral waters below AMD inputs. They observed decreased !axon richness and total abundance at two stations ( average pH values of 6.2 and 5.9) downstream of a pH 3.5 site.…”

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“…Changes in plankton community structure include reductions in the number oftaxa present and/or shifts from intolerant to tolerant species. Similar (Armitage 1980;Herricks and Cairns 1974;Rutherford and Mellow 1994;Smith and Frey 1971;Soucek et al 2000a), and fish (Rutherford and Mellow 1994) exposed to AMD.…”

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Ecotoxicological Impacts of Acid Mine Drainage in Streams of Increasing Order in the Powell River Watershed, Virginia

Soucek¹,

Cherry²,

Currie³

et al. 2000

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Abstract. The environmental impacts of acid mine drainage (AMD) at different levels of dilution were evaluated using transplanted Asian clams (Corbicula j/uminea) and qualitative benthic macroinvertebrate community sampling. Three contiguous streams in the upper Powell River watershed were sampled/tested at sites upstream and downstream of AMD inputs. The first stream was considered small according to its relative flow (-0.1 relative units at downstream site), the second was medium sized (-0.4 relative units), and the third was large (-1.0 relative units). For the small stream, total invertebrate richness, Ephemeroptera-Plecoptera-Trichoptera (EPT) richness, and percent mayfly abundance were significantly lower downstream of AMD inputs compared to upstream sites. In the medium sized stream, only percent mayfly abundance was impaired downstream of AMD, while in the large stream, total richness and EPT richness decreased nominally downstream of AMD inputs. Multiple linear regression analysis suggested that water colnmn conductivity was a good predictor of both total richness (R 2 = 0.819, p = 0.0050) and EPT richness (R 2 = 0.836, p = 0.0039), with increasing conductivity being associated with lower richness values. Clam survival decreased at the downstream site in the small stream, while clam growth was impaired at downstream sites in the medium and large streams. Water column pH was the best predictor of clam survival (R 2 = 0.886, p = 0.0016) while aluminum, conductivity, iron and flow described clam growth (R 2 = 0.999, p = 0.0015). These fmdings suggest that AMD inputs may be impacting streams beyond the zone of pH depression, even where flow was equal to approximately ten times the flow of the small, most severely impacted stream.

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The effects of an abandoned roast yard on the fish and macroinvertebrate communities of surrounding beaver ponds

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

In situ studies with Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) detect acid mine drainage and nutrient inputs in low-order streams

In situ studies with Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) detect acid mine drainage and nutrient inputs in low-order streams

Preliminary results of laboratory toxicity tests with the mayfly, Isonychia bicolor (Ephemeroptera: Isonychiidae) for development as a standard test organism for evaluating streams in the Appalachian coalfields of Virginia and West Virginia

Ecotoxicological Impacts of Acid Mine Drainage in Streams of Increasing Order in the Powell River Watershed, Virginia

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