期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
卷 193, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-021-09553-6
关键词
Land use; Deforestation; Threshold; Aquatic ecosystem; Macroinvertebrates
资金
- 33 Forest Capital
- CIKEL Ltda
- Instituto Floresta Tropical (IFT)
- Hydro Alunorte Company
- Biodiversity Research Consortium Brazil-Norway (BRC)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [449314/2014-2, 481015/2011-6]
- Hydro Paragominas Company through the BRC Brazil-Norway [011]
- Fundacao de Amparo e Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa (FADESP)
- CNPq [154761/2018-4, 307597/2016-4]
- BRC Brazil-Norway
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) [88882.176756/2018-01]
This study aimed to investigate the impact of land use and land cover on aquatic insect assemblages in the Amazon region, identifying sensitive taxa to environmental gradients. The results showed that as forests are converted to pasture, sensitive taxa to pasture experienced a decrease in abundance and frequency of occurrence, indicating their potential as indicators of stream conservation.
The increasing land use in the Amazon region has resulted in the widespread substitution of forest areas with pasture and bauxite mining. These land uses reduce the forest cover of streams and modify their characteristics, reducing the diversity of aquatic insect assemblages. In the present study, we aimed to identify the threshold of the assemblages of the larvae of insects of the orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (collectively known as EPT), and adults of the order Odonata, along an environmental gradient of land use and land cover (LULC). We sampled 30 streams along an environmental gradient determined by the proportion of forest, pasture, and bauxite mining observed within the catchment of each stream. We identified 12 taxa associated with forest (nine positively and three negatively) and four negatively associated with pasture. However, no taxa were associated explicitly with the bauxite mining gradient. As forest is converted to pasture, the abundance and frequency of occurrence of the taxa sensitive to pasture are reduced, reflecting their environmental sensitivity and their potential as sentinels of preserved streams. The identification of the thresholds of the EPT and odonates taxa allowed us to determine which of these organisms are positively or negatively associated with the environmental gradient of LULC in Amazonian streams. We hope that the results of the present study can be applied in future biomonitoring programs, particularly for monitoring the response of aquatic insects to the degradation of streams.
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