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We sampled 240 wadeable streams across Wisconsin for different forms of phosphorus and nitrogen, and assemblages of macroinvertebrates
and fish to (1) examine how macroinvertebrate and fish measures correlated with the nutrients; (2) quantify relationships
between key biological measures and nutrient forms to identify potential threshold levels of nutrients to support nutrient
criteria development; and (3) evaluate the importance of nutrients in influencing biological assemblages relative to other
physicochemical factors at different spatial scales. Twenty-three of the 35 fish and 18 of the 26 macroinvertebrate measures
significantly correlated (P < 0.05) with at least one nutrient measure. Percentages of carnivorous, intolerant, and omnivorous fishes, index of biotic
integrity, and salmonid abundance were fish measures correlated with the most nutrient measures and had the highest correlation
coefficients. Percentages of Ephemeroptera–Plecoptera–Trichoptera individuals and taxa, Hilsenhoff biotic index, and mean
tolerance value were macroinvertebrate measures that most strongly correlated with the most nutrient measures. Selected biological
measures showed clear trends toward degradation as concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen increased, and some measures
showed clear thresholds where biological measures changed drastically with small changes in nutrient concentrations. Our selected
environmental factors explained 54% of the variation in the fish assemblages. Of this explained variance, 46% was attributed
to catchment and instream habitat, 15% to nutrients, 3% to other water quality measures, and 36% to the interactions among
all the environmental variables. Selected environmental factors explained 53% of the variation in macroinvertebrate assemblages.
Of this explained variance, 42% was attributed to catchment and instream habitat, 22% to nutrients, 5% to other water quality
measures, and 32% to the interactions among all the environmental variables. 相似文献
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Webster KE Frost TM Watras CJ Swenson WA Gonzalez M Garrison PJ 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》1992,78(1-3):73-78
Acidification can affect aquatic organisms directly through hydrogen ion toxicity, and indirectly through disrupted food web dynamics and altered abiotic conditions. Field populations from selected taxa were studied during the Little Rock Lake whole-basin acidification experiment to illustrate patterns whose timing suggests direct (i.e. immediate) or indirect (i.e. delayed or non-uniform) responses to pH change. As the treatment basin was acidified to pH 5.6, 5.2 and 4.7, immediate changes consistent with a direct pH response were observed for species representing several trophic levels. For other taxa (e.g. littoral invertebrates associated with filamentous algal mats, several species of pelagic zooplankton), indirect mechanisms induced by food web changes were more likely explanations for abundance patterns. The results presented here suggest that the responses of aquatic ecosystems to acidification involve a complex interplay between direct pH effects and subsequent indirect interactions. 相似文献
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Distribution and abundance of choanoflagellates (Acanthoecidae) across the ice-edge zone in the Weddell Sea,Antarctica 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Choanoflagellates are thought to be an important component of oceanic microbial food webs, but little quantitative data exists on their abundance,, distribution, or relationship to potential food sources. In an Antarctic ice edge zone (northern Weddell Sea, March 1986), choanoflagellate abundance varied over two orders of magnitude in the upper 100 m. The lowest abundances were recorded at the bottom of the water column under ice cover and the highest abundances occurred in the upper 30 m of open water. Species that were predominantly in colonies dominated the open-water samples. Abundances of total choanoflagellates and some individual species were correlated with primary and secondary biomass and production, indicating a response to gradients in potential food sources. This suggests that choanoflagellates are tightly coupled with their food sources and supports the contention that they may an important link between bacteria-sized particles and metazoan grazers. 相似文献
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Gerald T. Ankley Nelson A. Thomas Dominic M. Di Toro David J. Hansen John D. Mahony Walter J. Berry Richard C. Swartz Robert A. Hoke A. Wayne Garrison Herbert E. Allen Christopher S. Zarba 《Environmental management》1994,18(3):331-337
Due to anthropogenic inputs, elevated concentrations of metals frequently occur in aquatic sediments. In order to make defensible
estimates of the potential risk of metals in sediments and/or develop sediment quality criteria for metals, it is essential
to identify that fraction of the total metal in the sediments that is bioavailable. Studies with a variety of benthic invertebrates
indicate that interstitial (pore) water concentrations of metals correspond very well with the bioavailability of metals in
test sediments. Many factors may influence pore water concentrations of metals; however, in anaerobic sediments a key phase
controlling partitioning of several cationic metals (cadmium, nickel, lead, zinc, copper) into pore water is acid volatile
sulfide (AVS). In this paper, we present an overview of the technical basis for predicting bioavailability of cationic metals
to benthic organisms based on pore water metal concentrations and metal-AVS relationships. Included are discussions of the
advantages and limitations of metal bioavailability predictions based on these parameters, relative both to site-specific
assessments and the development of sediment quality criteria. 相似文献
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Efforts to Reduce Mortality to Hydroelectric Turbine-Passed Fish: Locating and Quantifying Damaging Shear Stresses 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Severe fluid forces are believed to be a source of injury and mortality to fish that pass through hydroelectric turbines.
A process is described by which laboratory bioassays, computational fluid dynamics models, and field studies can be integrated
to evaluate the significance of fluid shear stresses that occur in a turbine. Areas containing potentially lethal shear stresses
were identified near the stay vanes and wicket gates, runner, and in the draft tube of a large Kaplan turbine. However, under
typical operating conditions, computational models estimated that these dangerous areas comprise less than 2% of the flow
path through the modeled turbine. The predicted volumes of the damaging shear stress zones did not correlate well with observed
fish mortality at a field installation of this turbine, which ranged from less than 1% to nearly 12%. Possible reasons for
the poor correlation are discussed. Computational modeling is necessary to develop an understanding of the role of particular
fish injury mechanisms, to compare their effects with those of other sources of injury, and to minimize the trial and error
previously needed to mitigate those effects. The process we describe is being used to modify the design of hydroelectric
turbines to improve fish passage survival. 相似文献
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Nitration by NO2 of pyrene or benzo[a]pyrene adsorbed from the vapor phase onto six coal ashes, alumina, and silica substrates is not observed if the NO2 is thoroughly purged of nitric acid. Also, the photochemical transformation of pyrene or benzo[a]pyrene adsorbed on these substrates is not detectably influenced by the presence of nitric acid-free NO2. Photochemical production of nitro derivatives of adsorbed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of NO2 does not appear to be a significant process unless appreciable concentrations of nitric acid, or perhaps strong oxidants such as ozone, also are present. 相似文献
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