Evidence for responses in water chemistry and macroinvertebrates in a strongly acidified mountain stream

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/17:00480695 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10364617

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2017-0121" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2017-0121</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2017-0121" target="_blank" >10.1515/biolog-2017-0121</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evidence for responses in water chemistry and macroinvertebrates in a strongly acidified mountain stream

Original language description

A study of differences in the water chemistry and macroinvertebrate composition after a decade was performed in a strongly acidified mountain stream in the Brdy Mountains. In 1999 and again in 2010 we carried out monthly sampling of stream water and macroinvertebrates. We detected significantly lower concentrations of SO2−4, Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, NH+4, Cl− and F− ions, reactive aluminium (R-Al) and its toxic form Aln+, and significantly higher concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC) between 1999 and 2010, possibly indicating recovery of this stream from acidification, even though there was no significant difference in pH. The signs of a biological recovery from acidification included the first occurrences of less acid-tolerant macroinvertebrate taxa: the stonefly Diura bicaudata and the caddisfly Rhyacophila sp. We observed higher taxonomic richness in 2010 compared to 1999 and found several species typical of standing waters plus a few rare species. This could partly be attributed to the effects of logging in the catchment. If recovery from acidification continues, we expect a return of other less acid-tolerant taxa to this strongly acidified stream.

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

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

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

Biologia

ISSN

0006-3088

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

72

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1049-1058

UT code for WoS article

000413328100011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85032740760