Macrophyte communities as bioindicator of stormwater pollution in rivers: a quantitative analysis

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Roman Babko¹  Tetiana Diachenko²  Jacek Zaburko³  Yaroslav Danko⁴  Tatiana Kuzmina⁵  Joanna Szulżyk-Cieplak³  Joanna Czarnota⁶  Grzegorz Łagód⁷ 

[1] Department of Invertebrate Fauna and Systematics, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;Department of Ichthyology and Hydrobiology of River Systems, Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;Fundamentals of Technology Faculty, Lublin University of Technology;Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography, Sumy State Pedagogical University;Department of Applied Ecology, Sumy State University;Department of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, Rzeszow University of Technology;Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Lublin University of Technology

关键词: Macrophytes;    Rivers;    Stormwater systems;    Pollution;    Plants communities;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.15248

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Macrophytes are one of the important indicators used in assessing the anthropic impact on aquatic ecosystems. The structure of macrophyte communities of two rivers were compared by species composition, dominant species and projective cover using statistical methods. It is shown that the influence of storm runoff on these rivers is manifested in the form of a change in the dominant species composition. Based on the statistical analysis carried out, it can be argued that, despite the peculiarities of the flora composition of each of the rivers, the influence of storm runoffs largely neutralizes this specificity, determining the situation in local areas immediately below the runoff. In the area of the effluent discharge the dominance of individual species and an increase in the area overgrown with macrophytes was observed. In the area of stormwater discharge on the Psel River, species were usually present: Nuphar lutea, Ceratophyllum demersum, Myriophyllum spicatum and on the Bystrica River—Glyceria maxima, Sagitaria sagittiformis, Stuckenia pectinata and Potamogeton crispus. The use of the NMDS method has been found to provide good insight into the structural rearrangements in macrophyte communities affected by runoff from stormwater systems.

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