期刊
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
卷 45, 期 -, 页码 28-36出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.03.011
关键词
Potamal rivers; Rhithral rivers; Species diversity; Functional diversity; Contradictory trends
资金
- OTKA [K104279]
- Bolyai Janos fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- European Union
- State of Hungary
- European Social Fund [TAMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001]
- [TAMOP-4.2.2_B-10_1-2010-0024]
- [TAMOP-4.2.2.C-11/1/KONV-2012-0010]
Ecological water quality problems are frequently connected to increment of phytoplankton productivity and overdominance of some phytoplankton species. Metrics that show monotonously increasing or decreasing tendencies along stressor gradients is recommended for ecological state assessment. Diversity metrics are influenced by various physical disturbances and show high within-year variability; thus, there is no agreement on the usefulness of these metrics as state indicators. To test the usefulness of phytoplankton diversity in ecological state assessment we investigated the productivity diversity relationships for lakes and rivers in the Carpathian Basin (Hungary). We demonstrated that the shape of productivity diversity relationship depends on the investigated water body type. Regarding lakes, hump-shaped relationship was found for all computed metrics. Parallel with the increase in phytoplankton productivity values, diversity metrics showed monotonously increasing tendencies in rhithral and decreasing tendencies in large potamal rivers. We found no systematic relationship in the case of small lowland rivers. Changes of diversity metrics calculated for species and functional groups showed similar tendencies within the types, only the slopes of regression lines differ each other. The use of diversity metrics as ecological state indicators should be restricted to water body types where diversity decreases or increases monotonously with phytoplankton biomass. Regarding the lakes the use of diversity metrics is not recommended for ecological state assessment. In rhithral and large potamal river assessment, application of diversity metrics should be strongly considered. We demonstrated that diversity metrics can be useful components of multimetric indices proposed to use by the Water Framework Directive. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据