scholarly journals Ecological Connectivity in Two Ancient Lakes: Impact Upon Planktonic Cyanobacteria and Water Quality

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matina Katsiapi ◽  
Savvas Genitsaris ◽  
Natassa Stefanidou ◽  
Anastasia Tsavdaridou ◽  
Irakleia Giannopoulou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Water Channel ◽  
Alpha Diversity ◽  
Ancient Lakes ◽  
Simpson Index ◽  
Species Sorting ◽  
Average Value ◽  
High Dispersal ◽  
Cyanobacterial Species

The ancient lakes Mikri Prespa and Megali Prespa are located in SE Europe at the transnational triangle and are globally recognized for their ecological significance. They host hundreds of flora and fauna species, and numerous types of habitat of conservational interest. They also provide a variety of ecosystem services. Over the last few decades, the two lakes have been interconnected through a surface water channel. In an attempt to explore whether such a management practice might alter the ecological properties of the two lakes, we investigated a series of community metrics for phytoplankton by emphasizing cyanobacteria. Our results demonstrate that the cyanobacterial metacommunity structure was affected by directional hydrological connectivity and high dispersal rates, and to a lesser extent, by cyanobacterial species sorting. Cyanobacterial alpha diversity was twofold in the shallow upstream Lake Mikri Prespa (Simpson index average value: 0.70) in comparison to downstream Lake Megali Prespa (Simpson index average value: 0.37). The cyanobacterial assemblage of the latter was only a strict subset of that in Mikri Prespa. Similarly, beta diversity components clearly showed a homogenization of cyanobacteria, supporting the hypothesis that water flow enhances fluvial translocation of potentially toxic and bloom-forming cyanobacteria. Degrading of the water quality in the Lake Megali Prespa in anticipation of improving that of the Lake Mikri Prespa is an issue of great concern for the Prespa lakes’ protection and conservation.

scholarly journals Water quality drives the regional patterns of an algal metacommunity in interconnected lakes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Sung Kim ◽  
Seok Hyun Ahn ◽  
In Jae Jeong ◽  
Tae Kwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Algal Community ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
Algal Communities ◽  
Species Sorting ◽  
Metacommunity Structure

AbstractThe metacommunity approach provides insights into how the biological communities are assembled along the environmental variations. The current study presents the importance of water quality on the metacommunity structure of algal communities in six river-connected lakes using long-term (8 years) monitoring datasets. Elements of metacommunity structure were analyzed to evaluate whether water quality structured the metacommunity across biogeographic regions in the riverine ecosystem. The algal community in all lakes was found to exhibit Clementsian or quasi-Clementsian structure properties such as significant turnover, grouped and species sorting indicating that the communities responded to the environmental gradient. Reciprocal averaging clearly classified the lakes into three clusters according to the geographical region in river flow (upstream, midstream, and downstream). The dispersal patterns of algal genera, including Aulacoseira, Cyclotella, Stephanodiscus, and Chlamydomonas across the regions also supported the spatial-based classification results. Although conductivity, chemical oxygen demand, and biological oxygen demand were found to be important variables (loading > |0.5|) of the entire algal community assembly, water temperature was a critical factor in water quality associated with community assembly in each geographical area. These results support the notion that the structure of algal communities is strongly associated with water quality, but the relative importance of variables in structuring algal communities differed by geological regions.

scholarly journals Phytoplankton community structure and it’s relationships with water quality in Bangka Island, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Muh Yusuf ◽  
Robin Robin ◽  
Wahyu Adi ◽  
Mu’alimah Hudatwi ◽  
Widianingsih Widianingsih ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Total Suspended Solid ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Suspended Solid ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Mining Site ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Primary Producer

Phytoplankton plays an important role in primary productivity in marine environment. Various environmental changes in coastal area will impact the water quality and their phytoplankton compositions. The purpose of this study is to examine the abundance of phytoplankton from two different sites, i.e Tanah Merah (close to mining site) and Semujur Island (away from mining site) in Bangka Island. Phytoplankton and water sample were collected on June- August 2018. Water quality was measured using water quality checker, whereas the phytoplankton was identified under the microscope with a magnification of 100x. Non-parametric Kruskal test and T-test analysis was performed to determine the abundance, diversity, uniform, and dominance of phytoplankton between Sites, respectively. Statistical analyses showed the abundance of phytoplankton at Semujur Island was significantly higher than that at Tanah Merah (p = 0.003). In additions the diversity, uniform, and dominance were also significantly different between sites (all p <0.05). In Semujur Island, Diatoms (Thalassiothrix, Chaetoceros and Thalassionema) were more dominants than the Dinophyceae group. However, in Tanah Merah, the genera Ceratium belong to class Dinophyceae was more dominant than the class Bacillariophyceae. These results performed that the phytoplankton in Tanah Merah and Semujur Island was affected by environment, in this case the mining area. The water quality in Semujur Island (non-mining Area) might have good quality than in Tanah Merah (mining area). The average value of turbidity and Total Suspended Solid in Tanah Merah Waters causes low abundance of phytoplankton. It can be concluded that tin mining can disrupt the abundance and composition of phytoplankton as a primary producer of waters.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON GROUND COVER <q>CLUMPINESS</q>: SCALING FROM FIELD TO SENTINEL-2 COVER ESTIMATES

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W2 ◽  
pp. 183-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Scarth ◽  
R. Trevithick
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Grazing Land ◽  
Land Condition ◽  
Sentinel 2

Significant progress has been made in the development of cover data and derived products based on remotely sensed fractional cover information and field data across Australia, and these cover data sets are now used for quantifying and monitoring grazing land condition. The availability of a dense time-series of nearly 30 years of cover data to describe the spatial and temporal patterns in landscape changes over time can help with monitoring the effectiveness of grazing land management practice change. With the advent of higher spatial resolution data, such as that provided by the Copernicus Sentinel 2 series of satellites, we can look beyond reporting purely on cover amount and more closely at the operational monitoring and reporting on spatial arrangement of cover and its links with land condition. We collected high spatial resolution cover transects at 20&amp;thinsp;cm intervals over the Wambiana grazing trials in the Burdekin catchment in Queensland, Australia. Spatial variance analysis was used to determine the cover autocorrelation at various support intervals. Coincident Sentinel-2 imagery was collected and processed over all the sites providing imagery to link with the field data. We show that the spatial arrangement and temporal dynamics of cover are important indicators of grazing land condition for both productivity and water quality outcomes. The metrics and products derived from this research will assist land managers to prioritize investment and practice change strategies for long term sustainability and improved water quality, particularly in the Great Barrier Reef catchments.

scholarly journals Advancing Knowledge on Cyanobacterial Blooms in Freshwaters

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2583
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Vardaka ◽  
Konstantinos Ar. Kormas
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Toxin Production ◽  
Cyanobacterial Blooms ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Cyanobacterial Species ◽  
Water Quality Deterioration

Cyanobacterial blooms have become a frequent phenomenon in freshwaters worldwide; they are a widely known indicator of eutrophication and water quality deterioration. Information and knowledge contributing towards the evaluation of the ecological status of freshwaters, particularly since many are used for recreation, drinking water, and aquaculture, is valuable. This Special Issue, entitled “Advancing Knowledge on Cyanobacterial Blooms in Freshwaters”, includes 11 research papers that will focus on the use of complementary approaches, from the most recently developed molecular-based methods to more classical approaches and experimental and mathematical modelling regarding the factors (abiotic and/or biotic) that control the diversity of not only the key bloom-forming cyanobacterial species, but also their interactions with other biota, either in freshwater systems or their adjacent habitats, and their role in preventing and/or promoting cyanobacterial growth and toxin production.

Effective Monitoring Strategies for Demonstrating Water Quality Changes from Nonpoint Source Controls on a Watershed Scale

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (3-5) ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Spooner ◽  
Daniel E. Line
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Nonpoint Source ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Quality Changes ◽  
Water Quality Data ◽  
Treatment Implementation ◽  
Land Treatment

Demonstrating water quality improvements from nonpoint source (NPS) controls by monitoring both land treatment and water quality in at least a subset of watershed projects is necessary to provide feedback to project coordinators Feedback to regional and national policy makers is also essential to achieve political and economic support for NPS control programs. To meet this objective, two challenges must be met in designing the monitoring network and analyzing the data: (1) Detecting significant (or real) trends in both water quality and land treatment implementation and (2) Associating water quality trends with land treatment trends. Land treatment and water quality monitoring requirements for meeting these challenges are discussed based on lessons learned from the Rural Clean Water Program, a 10-15 year experimental program designed to control agricultural NPS pollution in rural watersheds. At minimum, monitoring of land treatment and water quality should be multi-year before and after best management practice (BMP) implementation. The paired watershed design is the best for documenting BMP effectiveness in the shortest number of years (a minimum of 3-5 years). The water quality and land treatment data bases should be temporally related. All significant sources of variability in the land treatment and water quality data should be taken into account to increase the chances of isolating true water quality changes due to BMPs.

scholarly journals Best pasture management practice adoption and sediment abatement

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-221
Author(s):  
Dayton M. Lambert ◽  
Christopher D. Clark ◽  
Laura J. Medwid ◽  
Shawn A. Hawkins ◽  
Hannah A. McClellan
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Sediment Loading ◽  
Pasture Management ◽  
Cost Share ◽  
Biophysical Models ◽  
Practice Adoption ◽  
Willingness To Adopt

AbstractResearch on producer willingness to adopt individual best pasture management practices (BMPs) is extensive, but less attention has been paid to producers simultaneously adopting multiple, complementary BMPs. Applications linking primary survey data on BMP adoption to water quality biophysical models are also limited. A choice-experiment survey of livestock producers is analyzed to determine willingness to adopt pasture BMPs. Sediment abatement curves are derived by linking estimates of producer responsiveness to incentives to adopt rotational grazing with a biophysical simulation model. Current cost share rates of $24/acre should yield a 12% decrease in sediment loading from pastures.

scholarly journals Organochlorine Pesticides in Surface Water of Jiuxi Valley, China: Distribution, Source Analysis, and Risk Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Liu ◽  
Guanlin Zheng ◽  
Zhen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Organochlorine Pesticides ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Water Quality Criteria ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Sampling Points ◽  
Potential Risks

Residual levels of 11 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in surface water of Jiuxi Valley were determined during spring and autumn at nine sampling points to assess their contamination and potential risks. The water samples were extracted by solid-phase extraction (SPE), and OCPs were analyzed by gas chromatograph equipped with a 63Ni-ECD detector. The investigation results indicated that the concentration of total OCPs varied from 4.07 to 13.5 ng·L−1 with an average value of 7.15 ng·L−1 in spring, and from 12.5 to 30.1 ng·L−1 with an average value of 19.9 ng·L−1 in autumn. Jiuxi Valley was slightly contaminated by OCPs, and the concentrations of ΣHCHs and ΣDDTs in the river were at relatively low levels. HCHs were the main pollutant in spring, and also in autumn, and α-HCH was the main component of the HCH isomers at most sampling points. Source analysis indicated that local use of lindane or input of fresh γ-HCH contributed to the presence of HCHs. New inputs were the major sources of DDTs, aldrin, heptachlor, and endrin. The OCP levels of this investigation were within the standard limits set by a majority of the water quality standards and guidelines of China, WHO, European Union, and Canada. However, although the γ-HCH concentrations at all sampling sites, endrin concentrations at all sampling sites, and β-HCH concentrations at most sampling sites were below the human health water quality standard, and the levels of other tested OCPs (α-HCH, p,p′-DDD, p,p′-DDE, p,p′-DDT, aldrin, and heptachlor) exceeded the value of EPA-recommended water quality criteria for human health, which indicated potential risks to human health around the region.

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