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Title: Deforestation and sewage effects on aquatic macroinvertebrates in urban streams in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Authors: Couceiro, Sheyla R.M.
Hamada, Neusa
Luz, Sérgio Luíz Bessa
Forsberg, Bruce Rider
Pimentel, Tânia Pena
Keywords: Deforestation
Electric Conductivity
Forestry
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Rain
Sewage
Stream Flow
Water Pollution
Water Quality
Aquatic Macroinvertebrates
Domestic Sewage
Environmental Indicators
Neotropical Streams
Urban Streams
Water Resources
Aquatic Community
Community Composition
Deforestation
Dissolved Oxygen
Electrical Conductivity
Environmental Effect
Freshwater Ecosystem
Macroinvertebrate
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Relative Abundance
Sewage
Water Quality
Deforestation
Forestry
Sewage
Stream Flow
Water Quality
Water Resources
Amazonas
Manaus
South America
Annelida
Ceratopogonidae
Chironomidae
Insecta
Oligochaeta (metazoa)
Psychodidae
Issue Date: 2007
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Hydrobiologia
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 575, Número 1, Pags. 271-284
Abstract: In the last few years, awareness in developed countries has increased regarding the importance of urban watercourses as essential natural resources for human well being. Macroinvertebrates have been used as bioindicators to complement physico-chemical evaluation of water quality after environmental perturbations. The city of Manaus is closely associated with the Amazonian rain forest and with its dense hydrographic network. Any perturbation, such as deforestation and/or water pollution in the city's streams, therefore causes changes in the local ecosystem as the population increases. In this study, 65 streams were sampled in October and November 2003. Samples were taken from stream-bed sediment in the center of the channel and litter/sediment at the edge of the stream. Deforestation, total Nitrogen (TN), total Phosphorus (TP), depth, width, electrical conductivity, temperature and dissolved Oxygen (DO) were measured. A total of 115,549 specimens were collected, distributed among 152 taxa. Oligochaeta, Chironomus, Psychodidae and Ceratopogonidae were the taxa with the greatest frequencies of occurrence and the highest total abundances. Higher deforestation, TN and TP were correlated with lower DO and greater electrical conductivity, pH and water temperature. Deforestation, TN and TP were not associated with water velocity and stream width. Depth was the only variable correlated (negatively) with deforestation and not correlated with TN and TP. Greater deforestation, TN and TP were correlated with lower richness of taxa; but these variables did not affect abundance. Canonical Correspondence Analysis ordenated the streams into two groups; the majority of the streams were in the group with high levels of deforestation and with high values of TP, TN, pH, electrical conductivity and temperature, where the macroinvertebrates were reduced to a few taxa. The other group was composed of streams that were well oxygenated and deep, where richness of taxa was higher. These results indicate changes in community composition in response to changes in environmental conditions. The highest taxa correlation was with streams that were well oxygenated and had the greatest depth and water velocity. Species Indicator Analysis identified 29 taxa as indicators of nonimpacted streams, 16 as indicators of deforested streams and three as indicators of streams impacted by deforestation and domestic sewage. Of the total sampled streams, 80% were impacted by deforestation and water pollution and had fauna tolerant of these perturbations. Water pollution, represented by TN and TP, affected the macroinvertebrate fauna in a way similar to deforestation, i.e., causing reduction in taxa richness, simplifying the insect community composition without changing abundance. Use of the taxa suggested in this study as environmental indicators could improve the evaluation of water quality in the streams in Central Amazonia. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1007/s10750-006-0373-z
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