Macroinvertebrate herbivores and epilithon algae community of a stream affected by mineralized heated mining water inflow

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F17%3A00096594" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/17:00096594 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/limn/2017003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/limn/2017003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/limn/2017003" target="_blank" >10.1051/limn/2017003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Macroinvertebrate herbivores and epilithon algae community of a stream affected by mineralized heated mining water inflow

Original language description

The main aims of this study were to analyse the effect of a mineralized heated water inflow from a uranium ore processing plant on the abundance and diversity of epilithon and macroinvertebrate herbivores as well as to identify changes in functional feeding groups. In total, four sampling sites were selected. One site was on the mining water tributary and three sites in a recipient natural stream (the Nedveˇdicˇka River, Czech Republic): one of them upstream and two downstream from the mining effluent. Samples were taken monthly during the period 2008–2009. The number of species in the epilithon was higher downstream from the tributary and we also recorded a small increase in density. We observed significant changes in the taxonomical composition of epilithon and macroinvertebrate communities downstream from the tributary. Taxa richness of macroinvertebrates was similar between sampling sites. A small drop in macroinvertebrate abundance immediately downstream from the tributary was followed by a significantly elevated number of herbivores, especially scraper-collectors, at the more downstream site. Alteration of the species composition and abundance of herbivorous macroinvertebrates in the Nedveˇdicˇka River could be explained by a combination of a change in food availability and the physico-chemical properties of the water.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology

ISSN

0003-4088

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

189-201

UT code for WoS article

000412944400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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