JUPKE, Jonathan F., Sebastian BIRK, Mario ALVAREZ-CABRIA, Jukka AROVIITA, Jose BARQUIN, Oscar BELMAR, Nuria BONADA, Miguel CANEDO-ARGUELLES, Gabriel CHIRIAC, Misikova Elexova EMILIA, Christian K. FELD, M. Teresa FERREIRA, Peter HAASE, Kaisa-Leena HUTTUNEN, Maria LAZARIDOU, Margita LESTAKOVA, Marko MILISA, Timo MUOTKA, Riku PAAVOLA, Piotr PANEK, Petr PAŘIL, Edwin T. H. M. PEETERS, Marek POLÁŠEK, Leonard SANDIN, Denes SCHMERA, Michal STRAKA, Philippe USSEGLIO-POLATERA and Ralf B. SCHAEFER. Evaluating the biological validity of European river typology systems with least disturbed benthic macroinvertebrate communities. Science of the Total Environment. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2022, vol. 842, October, p. "156689", 11 pp. ISSN 0048-9697. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156689.
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Original name Evaluating the biological validity of European river typology systems with least disturbed benthic macroinvertebrate communities
Authors JUPKE, Jonathan F. (guarantor), Sebastian BIRK, Mario ALVAREZ-CABRIA, Jukka AROVIITA, Jose BARQUIN, Oscar BELMAR, Nuria BONADA, Miguel CANEDO-ARGUELLES, Gabriel CHIRIAC, Misikova Elexova EMILIA, Christian K. FELD, M. Teresa FERREIRA, Peter HAASE, Kaisa-Leena HUTTUNEN, Maria LAZARIDOU, Margita LESTAKOVA, Marko MILISA, Timo MUOTKA, Riku PAAVOLA, Piotr PANEK, Petr PAŘIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Edwin T. H. M. PEETERS, Marek POLÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Leonard SANDIN, Denes SCHMERA, Michal STRAKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Philippe USSEGLIO-POLATERA and Ralf B. SCHAEFER.
Edition Science of the Total Environment, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science, 2022, 0048-9697.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 9.800
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126357
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156689
UT WoS 000827318000001
Keywords in English Water framework directive; Ecoregions; Biomonitoring; Macroinvertebrates; River typology
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 11/8/2022 13:42.
Abstract
Humans have severely altered freshwater ecosystems globally, causing a loss of biodiversity. Regulatory frameworks, like the Water Framework Directive, have been developed to support actions that halt and reverse this loss. These frameworks use typology systems that summarize freshwater ecosystems into environmentally delineated types. Within types, ecosystems that are minimally impacted by human activities, i.e., in reference conditions, are expected to be similar concerning physical, chemical, and biological characteristics. This assumption is critical when water quality assessments rely on comparisons to type-specific reference conditions. Lyche Solheim et al. (2019) developed a panEuropean river typology system, the Broad River Types, that unifies the national Water Framework Directive typology systems and is gaining traction within the research community. However, it is unknown how similar biological communities are within these individual Broad River Types. We used analysis of similarities and classification strength analysis to examine if the Broad River Types delineate distinct macroinvertebrate communities across Europe and whether they outperform two ecoregional approaches: the European Biogeographical Regions and Illies' Freshwater Ecoregions. We determined indicator and typical taxa for the types of all three typology systems and evaluated their distinctiveness. All three typology systems captured more variation in macroinvertebrate communities than random combinations of sites. The results were similar among typology systems, but the Broad River Types always performed worse than either the Biogeographic Regions or Illies' Freshwater Ecoregions. Despite reaching statistical significance, the statistics of analysis of similarity and classification strength were low in all tests indicating substantial overlap among the macroinvertebrate communities of different types. We conclude that the Broad River Types do not represent an improvement upon existing freshwater typologies when used to delineate macroinvertebrate communities and we propose future avenues for advancement: regionally constrained types, better recognition of intermittent rivers, and consideration of biotic communities.
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GA20-17305S, research and development projectName: Klimaticky podmíněná homogenizace vodních bezobratlých testovaná na třech modelových systémech a historických datech
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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