Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| Title (Primary) | Abundance and spatial variability of invertebrate communities in the River Lahn (Germany) and their relation to hyporheic properties |
| Title (Secondary) | The ecology of the hyporheic zone of running waters. Patterns, processes and bottleneck functions |
| Author | Altmoos, U.; Schmidt, J.; Bohle, H.-W.; Ibisch, R.B.; Borchardt, D. |
| Publisher | Borchardt, D.; Pusch, M. |
| Source Titel | Advances in Limnology |
| Year | 2009 |
| Department | ASAM |
| Volume | 61 |
| Page From | 161 |
| Page To | 184 |
| Language | englisch |
| UFZ inventory | Magdeburg, Bibliothek, 00377539, 10-2484 MA : Z Magdeburg, Bibliothek, 00401333, 11-0307 MA : Z |
| Abstract | In the present study the effects of high level treated wastewater on the composition and distribution of hyporheic fauna were examined. The physico-chemical environment and the quantity and quality of organic material in the interstitial pore system showed strong gradients along longitudinal, horizontal and depth profiles of two riffles upstream and downstream of the outlet of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Also, interstitial invertebrate assemblages showed characteristic distribution patterns. In the downwelling zone of riffle A upstream of the WWTP, the invertebrate taxa Diptera, Copepoda, Cladocera and Ephemeroptera accounted for 75 % of the total abundance, while in the down-welling zone of riffle B, 200 m downstream of the WWTP, the most abundant taxa were Nematoda, Oligochaeta and Isopoda accounting for a total of 65 % of the interstitial assemblage. Correlations between invertebrates and environmental parameters showed a shift from a carbon-controlled invertebrate community in riffle A to a community controlled by toxic effects of wastewater in riffle B. Hydrological exchange processes had a substantially impact on the environmental conditions in the hyporheic zone of riffle A. In contrast the composition and the dominance structure of the interstitial assemblage in riffle B was clearly controlled by the effects of wastewater on the environmental conditions. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=10 |
| Altmoos, U., Schmidt, J., Bohle, H.-W., Ibisch, R.B., Borchardt, D. (2009): Abundance and spatial variability of invertebrate communities in the River Lahn (Germany) and their relation to hyporheic properties In: Borchardt, D., Pusch, M. (eds.) The ecology of the hyporheic zone of running waters. Patterns, processes and bottleneck functions Advanc. Limnol. 61 Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, p. 161 - 184 |
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