期刊
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
卷 278, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111532
关键词
Bioassessment; Biodiversity; Community composition; Mineral deposits; Reference condition
资金
- evaluation and management project of the cumulative environmental effects of the mining cluster in Lapland through EU's Northern Finland Regional Development Fund [A72032]
- FRESHABIT LIFE IP [LIFE14 IPE/FI/23]
Research in northern Fennoscandia has shown that mineral deposits and mining activities have a significant impact on water chemistry, diatom, and macroinvertebrate communities in subarctic streams. However, the diversity of communities in areas with high mineral potential was found to be similar to those in areas with low mineral potential. It was also determined that incorporating geochemistry into the reference condition could enhance bioassessments of both taxonomic groups.
Mining has changed landscapes locally in northern Fennoscandia and there is an increasing pressure for exploitation of the remaining mineral deposits of the region. Mineral deposits, even if unmined, can strongly influence stream water chemistry, stream biological communities and the ability of organisms to tolerate stressors. Using data sampled from six mining areas with three active (gold and chrome), two closed (gold) and one planned mine (phosphate), we examined how mineral deposits and mining influence water chemistry and diatom and macroinvertebrate communities in subarctic streams in Finnish Lapland. We supplemented the data by additional samples compiled from databases and further assessed how variation in background geological conditions influences bioassessments of the impacts arising from mining. We found that water specific conductivity was elevated in our study streams draining through catchments with a high mineral potential. Mining effects were mainly seen as increased concentration of nitrogen. Influence of mineral deposits was detected in composition of diatom and macroinvertebrate communities, but communities in streams in areas with a high mineral potential were as diverse as those in streams in areas with a low mineral potential. Mining impacts were better detected for diatoms using a reference condition based on sites with a high than low mineral potential, while for macroinvertebrates, the responses were generally less evident, likely because of only minor effects of mining on water chemistry. Community composition and frequencies of occurrence of macroinvertebrate taxa were, however, highly similar between mine-influenced streams and reference streams with a high potential for minerals indicating that the communities are strongly structured by the natural influence of mineral deposits. Incorporating geochemistry into the reference condition would likely improve bioassessments of both taxonomic groups. Replicated monitoring in potentially impacted sites and reference sites would be the most efficient framework for detecting environmental impacts in streams draining through mineral-rich catchments.
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