期刊
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
卷 11, 期 2, 页码 362-369出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.06.004
关键词
Eutrophication; Land use; Biological indicators; Optimum scores; Tolerance scores
资金
- National Direction of the Environment (DINAMA-MVOTMA)
Human activities are radically changing natural land cover and increasing the delivery of soil, organic compounds, nutrients, toxic agrochemicals and other contaminants to aquatic ecosystems. The eutrophication of streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and costal zones is one of the most important consequences of human activities. In this study we assessed the trophic status of 28 wadeable stream reaches of the Santa Lucia basin, an important economic region of Uruguay. We developed a Trophic State Index of Benthic Invertebrates (TSI-BI), the first of its kind for South American lotic systems. The methodological approach consisted of determining the ambient trophic gradient via canonical correspondence analysis based on the benthic invertebrate abundance matrix and an environmental variable matrix. The rescaled site scores served as environmental variables in the weighted averaging model (WA), to weight the benthic abundances and then find the optimum and tolerance of each of the sampled genus. These data were used to estimate the TSI-BI scores. These scores, in conjunction with the total phosphorus concentrations (TP), were used to group the study reaches when running a cluster analysis. The basic statistical parameters of the defined groups serve as an input to identify the threshold values of TP and TSI-BI corresponding with the different trophic states. The boundaries of TSI-BI and TP demarcating mesotrophic and eutrophic states were 8 and 71 mu g/l, respectively, and can be considered the limits between impaired and less altered reaches. The results also indicated that the trophic status of the reaches is related to land use intensity. A change in land use management seems to be critical for the preservation of one of the most important water supply systems in Uruguay. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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