期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 806, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150493
关键词
Lower Doce River basin; Environmental disaster; Impacts; Aquatic habitat
资金
- UFES-FEST-Renova Foundation [001/2018]
- Renova Foundation
In lakes affected by mining tailings, shallow lakes showed higher vulnerability to exposure than deep lakes, with higher metal concentrations and lower zooplankton richness. Metals and limnological variables play a major role in shaping zooplankton distribution, highlighting the importance of considering these factors in conservation efforts.
The effects of exposure to mining tailings on water quality and biota of tropical lacustrine ecosystems remain poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that after mining tailing spills, shallow lakes should retain higher metal concentrations in comparison with deep lakes, which might contribute to differentiating species sorting and community structure of zooplankton in both ecosystems. Surveys were performed in 6 Brazilian lakes affected by the Fundao damfailure from October 2018 to September 2019. The shallow lakes showed higher values of turbidity (19.4 +/- 12.9 NTU), conductivity (846.5 +/- 1727.1 mu S.cm(-1)), total organic carbon (11.6 +/- 4.6 mg.L-1), total nitrogen (2688.7 +/- 2215.6 mu g.L-1), iron (2507.5 +/- 726.9 mu g.L-1), aluminum (419.9 +/- 166.5 mu g.L-1) and manganese (150.8 +/- 146.2 mu g.L-1) and lower zooplankton richness (9.2 +/- 3.2) compared to the deep lakes (13.4 +/- 3.0), which showed higher cyanobacteria density (84.7 10(3)+/- 69.3 10(3) cel.mL(-1)). We recorded negative relationships between zooplankton richness and turbidity, conductivity, iron, zinc and vanadium, indicating that as well as morphometric characteristics of lakes (area and depth) have an important role in zooplankton richness, the coupling between metals and limnological variables represent decisive environmental filters for species sorting of zooplankton. The variation-partitioning analysis showed that limnological variables and metals explained zooplankton composition, highlighting that metals play major influence on zooplankton composition. We suggest that the shallowness of the lakes should had promoted often resuspension of mining tailings that caused increases in metal concentrations in water column. The results indicate that the shallow lakes presented higher vulnerability to mining tailings exposure than the deep lakes, which may have substantially contributed for differentiating zooplankton communities in both ecosystems. This study reveals the need for considering shallow lakes as priority target for conservation among freshwater ecosystems affected by mining tailings. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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