Assessing freshwater fish sensitivity to different sources of perturbation in a Mediterranean basin

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-281

  Hermoso, V ^a   Clavero, M ^b,c   Blanco Garrido, F ^a,d   Prenda, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d Mediodes   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Bioindicators; Human impairment; Tolerance; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350324585     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2008.00344.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Abell, R. 2002. Conservation biology for the biodiversity crisis: a freshwater follow-up. Conservation Biology 16: 1435-1437.
2. Angermeier, P.L.&Schlosser, I.J. 1989. Species-area relationships for stream fishes. Ecology 70: 1450-1462.
3. Armitage, P.D., Moss, D., Wright, J.F.&Furse, M.T. 1983. The performance of a new biological water quality score system based on macroinvertebrates over a wide range of unpolluted running-water sites. Water Research 17: 333-347.
4. Armitage, P.D., Gunn, R.J.M., Furse, M.T., Wright, J.F.&Moss, D. 1987. The use of predictions to assess macroinvetebrate responses to river regulation. Hydrobiologia 144:25-32.
5. Armitage, P.D., Gunn, R.J.M., Furse, M.T.,Wright, J.F.&Moss, D. 1987. The use of prediction to assess macroinvertebrate response to river regulation. Hydrobiologia 144: 25-32.
6. Cao, Y.&Hawkins, C.P. 2005. Simulating biological impairment to evaluate the accuracy of ecological indicators. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 954-965.
7. Cao, Y., Williams, D.D.&Williams, N.E. 1998. How important are rare species in aquatic community ecology and bioassessment? Limnology and Oceanography 43: 1403-1409.
8. Carlisle, D.M., Meador, M.R., Moulton II, S.R.&Ruhl, P.M. 2007. Estimation and application of indicator values for common macroinvertebrate genera and families of the United States. Ecological Indicator 7: 22-33.
9. Collares-Pereira, M.J.&Cowx, I.G. 2004. The role of catchment scale environmental management in freshwater fish conservation. Fisheries Management and Ecology 11: 303-312.
10. European Commision. 2003. Common implementation strategy for the Water Framework Directive (2000 / 60 / EC). Guidance document number 2. Identification of Water Bodies ISSN: 1725-1087.
11. European Commision. 2000. Directive 2000 / 60 /EC of the European Council and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for community action in the field of water policy. Official Journal of the European Communities L327: 1-72.
12. Ferreira, M.T., Caiola, N., Casals, F., Oliveira, J.M.&De Sostoa, A. 2007. Assessing perturbation of river fish communities in the Iberian Ecoregion. Fisheries Management and Ecology 14: 519-530.
13. Filipe, A.F., Marques, T.A., Seabra, S., Tiago, P., Ribeiro, F., Moreira Da Costa, L., Cowx, I.G.&Collares-Pereira, M.J. 2004. Selection of priority areas for fish conservation in Guadiana River Basin, Iberian Peninsula. Conservation Biology 18: 189-200.
14. Gasith, A.&Resh, V.H. 1999. Streams in Mediterranean climate regions: abiotic influences and biotic responses to predictable seasonal events. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 30: 51-81.
15. Hawkins, C.P., Norris, R.H., Hogue, J.N.&Feminella, J.W. 2000. Development and evaluation of predictive models for measuring the biological integrity of streams. Ecological Applications 10: 1456-1477.
16. Hermoso, V., Linke, S.&Prenda, J. 2008. Identifying priority sites for the conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity in a mediterranean basin with high degree of threatened endemics. Hydrobiologia (in press).
17. Hilsenhoff, W.L. 1987. An improved biotic index of organic stream pollution. The Great Lakes Entomologist 20: 31-37.
18. Karr, J.R. 1981. Assessment of biotic integrity using fish communities. Fisheries 6: 21-27.
19. Kennard, M.J., Arthington, A.H., Pusey, B.J.&Harch, B.D. 2005. Are alien fish a reliable indicator of river health? Freshwater Biology 50: 174-183.
20. Kestemont, P.&Goffaux, D. 2002. Metric selection and sampling procedures for FAME. In Development, Evaluation&Implementation of a Standardised Fish-Based Assessment Method for the Ecological Status of European Rivers- A Contribution to the Water Framework Directive (FAME). 88 pp. Available at: http://fame.boku.ac.at.
21. Knapp, R.A., Hawkins, C.P., Ladau, J.&Mcclory, J.G. 2005. Fauna of Yosemite National Park lakes low resistance but high resilience to fish introductions. Ecological Applications 15: 835-847.
22. Koster, W.M.&Crook, D.A. 2008. Diurnal and nocturnal movements of river blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus) in a south-eastern Australian upland stream. Ecology of freshwater fish 17: 146-154.
23. Lenat, D.R. 1993. A biotic index for the southeastern United States: derivation and list of tolerance values, with criteria for assigning water-quality ratings. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 12: 279-290.
24. Linke, S., Norris, R.H., Faith, D.P.&Stockwell, D. 2005. ANNA: a new prediction method for bioassessment programs. Freshwater Biology 50: 147-158.
25. Magalhães, M.F., Batalha, D.C.&Collares-Pereira, M.J. 2002. Gradients in stream fish assemblages across a Mediterranean landscape: contributions of environmental factors and spatial structure. Freshwater Biology 47: 1015-1031.
26. Magalhães, M.F., Beja, P., Schlosser, I.J.&Collares-Pereira, M.J. 2007. Effects of multi-year droughts on fish assemblages of seasonally drying mediterranean streams. Freshwater Biology 52: 1494-1510.
27. Matthews, W.A. 1998. Patterns in freshwater fish ecology. New York: Chapman&Hall.
28. McGarigal, K., Cushman, S.&Sttaford, S. 2000. Multivariate statistics for wildlife and ecology research. New York: Springer.
29. Meador, M.R.&Carlisle, D.M. 2007. Quantifying tolerance indicator values for common stream fish species of the United States. Ecological Indicators 7: 329-338.
30. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. 2005. Análisis de las caracteri ́sticas de las demarcaciones. Caracterización de los tipos de ríos y lagos. Version 4.0. (251 pp). June 2005.
31. Morán-Ló pez, R., Pérez-Bote, J.L., Da Silva Rubio, E.&Corbacho Amado, C. 2005. Summer habitat relationships of barbells in south-west Spain. Journal of Fish Biology 67: 66-82.
32. Munné, A., Prat, N., Solá, C., Bonada, N.&Rieradevall, M. 2003. A simple field method for assessing the ecological quality of riparian habitat in rivers and streams: QBR index. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 13: 147-163.
33. Ninyerola, M., Pons, X.&Roure, J.M. 2005. Atlas Climático Digital de la Península Ibérica. Metodología y aplicacione en bioclimatología y geobotánica. ISBN 932860-8-7. Bellaterra: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
34. Norris, R.H. 1996. Predicting water quality using reference conditions and associated communities. In: Bailey, R.C., Norris, R.H.&Reynoldson, T.B., eds. Study design and data analysis in benthic macroinvertebrates assessments of freshwater ecosystems using a reference site approach. Kalispell, MT: Technical workshop, North American Benthological Society, pp. 32-52.
35. Norton, S.B., Cormier, S.M., Smith, M.&Jones, R.C. 2000. Can biological assessments discriminate among type of stress? A case study for the eastern cornbelt plains ecoregion. Environment Toxicology Chemistry 19: 1113-1119.
36. Oberdorff, T., Pont, D., Hugueny, B.&Porcher, J.P. 2002. Development and validation of a fish-based index for the assessment of 'river health' in France. Freshwater Biology 47: 1720-1734.
37. Pont, D., Hugueny, B., Beier, U., Goffaux, D., Melcher, A., Noble, R., Rogers, C., Roset, N.&Schmutz, S. 2006. Assessing river biotic condition at a continental scale: a European approach using functional metrics and fish assemblages. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 70-80.
38. Prenda, J., Armitage, P.D.&Grayston, A. 1997. Habitat use by the fish assemblage of two chalk streams. Journal of Fish Biology 51: 64-79.
39. Prenda, J., Clavero, M., Blanco-Garrido, F., Menor, A.&Hermoso, V. 2006. Threats to the conservation to biotic integrity in Iberian fluvial ecosystems. Limnetica 25: 377-388.
40. Pringle, C.M. 2001. Hydrologic connectivity and the management of biological reserves: a global perspective. Ecological Applications 11: 981-998.
41. Revenga, C.&Kura, Y. 2003. Status and trends of biodiversity of inland water ecosystems. Technical series number 11. Montreal, QC: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
42. Reynoldson, T.B., Norris, R.H., Resh, V.H., Day, K.E.&Rosenberg, D.M. 1997. The reference condition: a comparison of multimetric and multivariate approaches to assess water-quality impairment using benthic macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16: 833-852.
43. Shelford, V.E. 1911. Ecological succession I. Stream fishes and the method of physiografic analysis. Biological Bulletin 21: 9-35.
44. Van Sickle, J., Larsen, D.P.&Hawkins, C.P. 2007. Exclusion of rare taxa affects performance of O/ E index in bioassessment. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26: 319-331.
45. Vanote, R.L., Minshall, G.W., Cummins, K.W., Sedell, J.R.&Cushing, C.E. 1980. The river continuum concept. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 37: 130-137.
46. Velasco, J., Rincon, P.A.&Lobó n-Cerviá, J. 1990. Age, growth and reproduction of the cyprinid Rutilus lemmingii (Steindachner, 1866) in the river Huebra, central Spain. Journal of Fish Biology 36: 469-480.
47. Vila-Gispert, A.&Moreno-Amich, R. 2002. Life-history patterns of 25 species from European freshwater fish communities. Environmental Biology of Fishes 65: 387-400.
48. Vitousek, P.M. 1994. Beyond global warming: ecology and global change. Ecology 75: 1871-1876.
49. Whittier, T.R.&Hughes, R.M. 1998. Evaluation of fish species tolerances to environmental stressors in lakes in the Northeastern United States. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 18: 236-252.
50. Whittier, T.R., Hughes, R.M., Lomnicky, G., . Peck, D.V.&Herlihy, A.T. 2007. Fish and amphibian tolerance values and an assemblage tolerance index (ATI) for western USA streams and rivers. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 254-271.
51. World Conservation Union (IUCN). 2000. The 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species. Gland: IUCN. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org.
52. Wright, J.F., Moss, D., Armitage, P.D.&Furse, M.T. 1984. A preliminary classification of running-water sites in Great Britain based on macroinvertebrates species and the prediction of community type using environmental data. Freshwater Biology 14: 221-256.
53. Wright, J.F., Furse, M.T.&Armitage, P.D. 1993. RIVPACS: a technique for evaluating the biological water quality of rivers in the UK. European Water Pollution Control 3: 15-25.
54. Yuan, L.L. 2004. Assigning macroinvertebrate tolerance classifications using generalized additive models. Freshwater Biology 49: 662-677.