NDLI: The role of land use, nutrients, and other stressors in shaping benthic invertebrate assemblages in Slovenian rivers

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Author	Pavlin, Maja Birk, Sebastian Hering, Daniel Urbanič, Gorazd
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Studying human impacts on riverine systems is challenging due to the natural diversity and multiple stressors that are co-occurring. The term stressor(s) refers to variable(s) of anthropogenic landscape changes and local abiotic stream conditions that reflect human activities. We compared the effects of different stressors and natural (typology) factors on benthic invertebrate assemblages in Slovenian rivers. A total of 270 river sites located in four European ecoregions were sampled, covering the gradient of human perturbation ranging from (near)natural to highly degraded/polluted. Stressors commonly affecting running waters were grouped into management-relevant stressor-groups: land use (percentage of urban, intensive and non-intensive agricultural, and natural land use in the catchment and sub-catchment), eutrophication (in-stream concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen compounds) and other stressors (e.g., organic pollution, hydromorphological alteration). We compared the effects of the stressor-groups on invertebrate assemblages using partial Canonical Correspondence Analysis and tested the explanatory power of each stressor-group using typology variables as covariates. Stressors and typology variables showed high independent effects (40–65%) on invertebrate assemblages despite considerable joint effects from land use and typology. Stressors’ pure effects accounted for 70%, and interactions among the stressor-groups made up the remaining 30% of the total explained variability. Altogether, this study gives a good perspective on the ability to separate the effects of anthropogenic stressors from natural causes, as well as to separate effects among groups of stressors. Against this background, we advocate stressor-specific analyses to provide or improve guidelines for selecting appropriate measures to enhance the river status.
Starting Page	137
Ending Page	153
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00188158
Journal	Hydrobiologia
Volume Number	678
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15735117
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-08-07
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Benthic invertebrates Variance partitioning Multiple stressors Organic pollution Eutrophication Land use Ecology Zoology Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Aquatic Science

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