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Biomonitoring of Freshwater Ecosystems
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Biomonitoring of Freshwater Ecosystems

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Freshwater Biodiversity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 5827

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Dr. Timothy O. Randhir

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Department of Environmental Conservation, School of Earth and Sustainability, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA
Interests: landscape ecology; climate change; ecohydrology; sustainability sciences; environmental sciences

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Freshwater ecosystems play a vital role in sustaining ecosystem services that are vital to human well-being. With increased pressure from land use and climate change, these ecosystems are altered at a rapid pace. There is a critical need to assess the state and changes in these systems for conservation and management. Biomonitoring provides us with a cost-effective and reliable way of assessing these changes in freshwater systems. This is because of using specific endpoints that are sensitive to disturbances. This Special Issue calls for papers on biomonitoring in freshwater systems, which could include bioindicators for biodiversity assessment, climate change impacts, land use stressors, organismal responses, habitat suitability indices, sensitivity scoring methods, sampling design, systems assessment, watershed studies, macroinvertebrate surveys, toxicity assessment, experimental methods, community assessments, biomonitoring for management, instrumentation, and biomonitoring design.

Dr. Timothy O. Randhir
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Keywords

  • biomonitoring
  • sampling design
  • modeling
  • organismal response
  • biodiversity
  • watersheds
  • freshwater ecology
  • conservation

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Microplastics Occurrence in Fish from Tocagua Lake, Low Basin Magdalena River, Colombia
by Lindys Miranda-Peña, Milena Urquijo, Victoria A. Arana, Roberto García-Alzate, Carlos A. García-Alzate and Jorge Trilleras
Diversity 2023, 15(7), 821; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070821 - 29 Jun 2023
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Following global trends, research to determine the presence and abundance of microplastics (MPs) in environmental matrices in Colombia has focused on the coastal and marine environments. However, little scientific information is available on the impact of this pollutant on wetlands and fish. In [...] Read more.
Following global trends, research to determine the presence and abundance of microplastics (MPs) in environmental matrices in Colombia has focused on the coastal and marine environments. However, little scientific information is available on the impact of this pollutant on wetlands and fish. In this study, we provided scientific data on the occurrence and abundance of MPs in water and fish from Tocagua Lake, an important wetland in the Colombian Caribbean, and the unique habitat of wild cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Water (72) and fish (228 individuals of six species) samples were collected during four sampling events and two climatic seasons (wet and dry). A total of 1174 microplastic particles were collected in water with an average abundance of microplastics at the six stations sampled during four sampling events of 0.96 ± 0.40 MPs/L, and 648 MPs were identified in the gastrointestinal tract of 191 individuals, corresponding to a frequency of occurrence of 83.7%. Black- and blue-colored fiber MPs were particles that predominated in both matrices (water and fish), and seven types of polymers were identified through attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis. The abundance, type, and color of MPs in water and fish were not significantly different between seasons. Full article
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Biomonitoring for Watershed Protection from a Multiscale Land-Use Perspective
by Kaline de Mello, Ricardo Hideo Taniwaki, Diego Rodrigues Macedo, Cecília Gontijo Leal and Timothy O. Randhir
Diversity 2023, 15(5), 636; https://doi.org/10.3390/d15050636 - 8 May 2023
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The types and intensification of land use in the watershed affect the living organisms in aquatic ecosystems differently; this impact will also vary according to temporal and spatial scales. Understanding these interactions is crucial in the design of biomonitoring programs to detect the [...] Read more.
The types and intensification of land use in the watershed affect the living organisms in aquatic ecosystems differently; this impact will also vary according to temporal and spatial scales. Understanding these interactions is crucial in the design of biomonitoring programs to detect the effect of different pollutants in freshwater ecosystems and improve watershed management and conservation strategies. Therefore, this paper qualitatively reviews biomonitoring studies in freshwater ecosystems to evaluate the impact of different land use types on multiple scales in watersheds. The paper is organized into four sections. The first section presents biomonitoring in different freshwater systems (streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs). In the second section, we describe the biomonitoring characteristics of the main land use types. In the third section, we explain how spatial and temporal scales affect biomonitoring. Finally, in the fourth section, we focus on biomonitoring planning and future prediction and discuss how to design biomonitoring programs and how to use models and eDNA in biomonitoring. Our review will assist in decision-making regarding biomonitoring programs in watersheds and will guide future studies on the different bioindicators for various land use types in diverse ecosystems worldwide. Full article
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