Agricultural activities compromise ecosystem health and functioning of rivers: Insights from multivariate and multimetric analyses of macroinvertebrate assemblages
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| 作者 | Zhang, You; Leung, Jonathan Y. S.; Zhang, Ying; Cai, Yongjiu; Zhang, Zhiming; Li, Kuanyi |
| 刊名 | ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
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| 出版日期 | 2021 |
| 卷号 | 275 |
| 英文摘要 | Agricultural activities often lead to nutrient enrichment and habitat modification in rivers, possibly altering macroinvertebrate assemblages and hence ecosystem functioning. For the sake of environmental management and conservation, therefore, assessing the impacts of agricultural activities becomes indispensable, especially when these activities are predicted to be intensified in the future. In this study, the plain river network in the Lake Chaohu Basin was chosen to examine how agricultural activities influence the functioning of rivers by assessing land use, water quality, habitat condition and macroinvertebrate assemblages, followed by calculating the macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index (MMI) to indicate overall ecosystem health of the rivers. We found that agricultural activities lowered the diversity of macroinvertebrates (e.g. total number of taxa and Simpson index) primarily due to elevated ammonium concentrations in water and reduced microhabitat types, thereby impairing the habitat integrity and nutrient cycling of rivers. The macroinvertebrate-based MMI was positively correlated with increasing habitat quality but negatively with increasing nutrient concentrations, suggesting its high reliability for indicating the impacts of agricultural activities, which was further substantiated by classification and regression tree (CART) analysis. We recommend analyzing macroinvertebrate assemblages using both multivariate and multimetric approaches to offer a more comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of agricultural activities on ecosystem health. Some environmental (CODMn, NH4+-N and PO43--P) and biological parameters (total number of taxa), however, can be used as good proxies for MMI, when time and resources for gathering information to develop MMI are limited. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| 源URL | [http://159.226.73.51/handle/332005/20575]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院南京地理与湖泊研究所 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, You,Leung, Jonathan Y. S.,Zhang, Ying,et al. Agricultural activities compromise ecosystem health and functioning of rivers: Insights from multivariate and multimetric analyses of macroinvertebrate assemblages[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,2021,275. |
| APA | Zhang, You,Leung, Jonathan Y. S.,Zhang, Ying,Cai, Yongjiu,Zhang, Zhiming,&Li, Kuanyi.(2021).Agricultural activities compromise ecosystem health and functioning of rivers: Insights from multivariate and multimetric analyses of macroinvertebrate assemblages.ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION,275. |
| MLA | Zhang, You,et al."Agricultural activities compromise ecosystem health and functioning of rivers: Insights from multivariate and multimetric analyses of macroinvertebrate assemblages".ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION 275(2021). |
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来源：南京地理与湖泊研究所
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