Aquatic biomonitoring

Aquatic biomonitoring is the ecosystem can be studied in this manner.

Biomonitoring typically takes different approaches:

• fish, water fleas (Daphnia), and frogs.

• Community assessments, also called taxa remain. In aquatic ecosystems, these assessments often focus on invertebrates, algae, macrophytes (aquatic plants), fish, or amphibians.^[1] Rarely, other large vertebrates (reptiles, birds, and mammals) are considered as well.

• Online biomonitoring devices, using the ability of animals to permanently taste their environment. Different types of animals are used for that purpose either under lab or field conditions. The use of valve opening/closing activity of clams is one of the possible ways to monitor in-situ the quality of freshwater and coastal waters.

Aquatic invertebrates have the longest history of use in biomonitoring programs.^[2] In typical unpolluted temperate streams of Europe and North America, certain insect taxa predominate. Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), caddisflies (Trichoptera), and stoneflies (Plecoptera) are the most common insects in these undisturbed streams. In rivers disturbed by urbanization, agriculture, forestry, and other perturbations, flies (Diptera), and especially midges (family Chironomidae) predominate. Aquatic invertebrates are responsive to climate change.^[3][4]

See also

• Bioindicator
• Biological integrity
• Indicator species
• Water pollution
• Biological monitoring working party

References

External links

• Biological Assessment of Water Quality – US EPA
• Valvometer, MolluSCAN eye

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