Journal
HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 61-75Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-008-0374-2
Keywords
Groundwater/surface-water relations; Groundwater monitoring; Ecology; GW-Fauna-Index; South Korea
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- Korea Water Resources Corporation
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Hydrological interactions between surface water and groundwater (GW) can be described using hydrochemical and biological methods. Surface water-groundwater interactions and their effects on groundwater invertebrate communities were studied in the Nakdong River floodplain in South Korea. Furthermore, the GW-Fauna-Index, a promising new index for assessing the strength of surface-water influence on groundwater, was tested. The influence of surface water on groundwater decreased with increasing depth and distance from the river. While hydrochemistry prevailingly reflected the origin of the waters in the study area (i.e. whether alluvial or from adjacent rock), faunal communities seemed to display an affinity to surface-water intrusion. Fauna reacted quickly to changes in hydrology, and temporal changes in faunal community structure were significantly linked to the hydrological situation in the floodplain. The metazoan faunal community and the GW-Fauna-Index allow a distinction between surface and subsurface waters with varying degrees of exchange. The results indicate that hydrological conditions are reflected by faunal assemblages on a high spatiotemporal resolution, and that surface-water intrusion can be estimated using the GW-Fauna-Index.
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