Habitat and water quality preferences of mayflies and stoneflies from South Australian streams

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-18

  Corbin, Tracy A ^a   Goonan, Peter M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baetidae; Caenidae; Catchment characteristics; Distribution; Gripopterygidae; Habitat; Leptophlebiidae; Mayflies; Notonemouridae; Preferences; Stoneflies; Tolerances; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BAETIDAE; CAENIDAE; EPHEMEROPTERA; GRIPOPTERYGIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE; NOTONEMOURIDAE; PLECOPTERA;

EID: 79961119873     PISSN: 03721426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/3721426.2010.10887129     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Alba-Tercedor, J. & Suter, PJ. (1990). A new species of Caenidae from Australia: Tasmanocoenis arcuata sp.n. (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Aquatic Insects 12: 85-94.
2. Anon. (1997). ‘South Australian River Assessment System sampling and processing manual’. Pp 1-15. EPA South Australia, Australian Water Quality Centre, NHT and Environment Australia, Australia. Available at http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au/Bioassessment/ Macroinvertebrates/Man/Sampling/SA/SA Training Manual.pdf. [Accessed 20 August 2008].
3. APHA(2005). ‘Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater’, 21st edition. (American Public Health Association. Washington, D.C.)
4. Armstrong, D. (1990). Chapter 5: Hydrology. In ‘Natural History of the North East Deserts’ (Eds. M.J. Tyler, C.R. Twidale, M. Davies & C.B. Wells). Pp. 75-80. (Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide).
5. Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (ANZECC) and the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand (ARMCANZ). (2000). ‘Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality’ (ANZECC and Agriculture and Resource Management Council ofAustralian and New Zealand, Canberra).
6. Barthalow, J.M. (1989) ‘Stream Temperature Investigations: Field and Analytical Methods’. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Instream Flow Paper 13 Biological Report 89 (17).
7. Briers, R.A. & Gee, J.H.R. (2004). Riparian forestry management and adult stream insects. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 8: 545-549.
8. Briggs, S.V. & Maher, M.T. (1983). Litter fall and leaf decomposition in a river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) swamp. Australian Journal of Botany 31: 307-316.
9. Bureau of Meteorology. (2009). http://www.bom.gov.au [Accessed June 2009].
10. Campbell, I.C & Doeg, T.J. (1989). Impact of timber harvesting and production on streams: A review. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40: 519-539.
11. Chessman, B.C. (2003). New sensitivity grades for Australian river macroinvertebrates. Marine and Freshwater Research 54: 95-103.
12. Chessman, B.C. & Royal, M.J. (2004). Bioassessment without reference sites: use of environmental filters to predict natural assemblages of river macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23: 599-615.
13. Chessman, B.C., Thurtell, L.A. & Royal, M.J. (2006). Bioassessment in a harsh environment: A comparison of macroinvertebrate assemblages at reference and assessment sites in an Australian inland river system. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 119: 303-330.
14. Collier, K.J. (1995). Environmental factors affecting the taxonomic composition of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in lowland waterways of Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 29: 453-465.
15. Collier, K.J. (2008). Temporal patterns in the stability, persistence and condition of stream macroinvertebrate communities: relationships with catchment land-use and regional climate. Freshwater Biology 53: 603-616.
16. Dean, J.C. (1999). ‘Preliminary Keys for the Identification of Australian Mayfly Nymphs of the Family Leptophlebiidae’. Identification Guide No. 20. (Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury).
17. Donohue, I., McGarrigle, M.L. & Mills, P. (2006). Linking catchment characteristics and water chemistry with the ecological status of Irish rivers. Water Research 40: 91-98.
18. Dunlop, J., McGregor, G. & Horrigan, N. (2005). ‘Potential Impacts of Salinity and Turbidity in Riverine Ecosystems: Characterisation of Impacts and a Discussion of Regional Target Setting for Riverine Ecosystems in Queensland’ (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Australia.)
19. Eaton, L.E. & Lenat, D.R. (1991). Comparison of a rapid bioassessment method with North Carolina’s qualitative macroinvertebrate collection method. Journal of North American Benthological Society 10: 335-338.
20. Glover, C.J.M. (1983). Chapter 15: Freshwater and marine fishes. In ‘Natural History of the South East’ (Eds. M.J. Tyler, C.R. Twidale, J.K. Ling & J.W. Holmes). Pp. 157-167. (Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide).
21. Growns, J.E., Chessman, B.C., McEvoy, P.K. & Wright, I.A. (1995). Rapid assessment of rivers using macroinvertebrates: Case studies in the Nepean River and Blue Mountains, NSW. Australian Journal of Ecology 20: 130-141.
22. Hall, M.J., Closs, G.P. & Riley, R.H. (2001). Relationships between land use and stream invertebrate community structure in a South Island, New Zealand, coastal stream catchment. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35: 591-603.
23. Harlow, L.L., Mulaik, S.A. & Steiger, J.H. (1997). ‘What if there were no Significance Tests?’ (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA).
24. Hassell, K.L., Kefford, B.J. & Nugegoda, D. (2006). Sub-lethal and chronic tolerances of three freshwater insects: Cloeon sp. and Centroptilum sp. (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) and Chironomus sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 4024-4032.
25. 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.
26. Henley, W.F., Patterson, M.A., Neves, R.J. & Lemly, A.D. (2000). Effects of sedimentation and turbidity on lotic food webs: A concise review for natural resource managers. Reviews in Fisheries Science 8: 125-139.
27. Holmes, J.W. & Waterhouse, J.D. (1983). Chapter 6: Hydrology. In ‘Natural History of the South East’ (Eds. M.J. Tyler, C.R. Twidale, J.K. Ling & J.W. Holmes). Pp. 49-59. (Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide).
28. Horrigan, N., Choy, S., Marshall, J & Recknagel, F. (2005). Response of stream macroinvertebrates to changes in salinity and the development of a salinity index. Marine and Freshwater Research 56: 825-833.
29. Horrigan, H., Dunlop, J. E., Kefford, B. J. & Zavahir, F. (2007). Acute toxicity largely reflects the salinity sensitivity of stream macroinvertebrates derived using field distributions. Marine and Freshwater Research 58: 178-186.
30. Huryn, A.D. & Wallace, J.B. (2000). Life history and production of stream insects. Annual Review of Entomology 45: 83-110.
31. Jackson, J.K. & Resh, V.H. (1989). ‘Activities and Ecological Role of Adult Aquatic Insects in the Riparian Zone of Streams.’ General Technical Report PSW 110. (USDA Forest Service, Berkeley, California, USA).
32. Johnson, D.H. (1999). The insignificance of statistical significance testing. Journal of Wildlife Management 63: 763-772.
33. Jowett, I.G. & Richardson, J. (1990). Microhabitat preferences of benthic invertebrates in a New Zealand river and the development of in-stream flow-habitat models for Deleatidium spp. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 24: 19-30.
34. Karr, J.R. & Chu E.W. (2000). Sustaining living rivers. Hydrobiologia 422/423: 1-14.
35. Kiffney, P.M., Richardson, J.S. & Bull, J.P. (2003). Responses of periphyton and insects to experimental manipulation of riparian buffer width along forest streams. Journal of Applied Ecology 40: 1060-1076.
36. Lammert, M & Allan, J.D. (1999). Assessing biotic integrity of streams: effects of scale in measuring the influence of land use/cover and habitat structure of fish and macroinvertebrates. Environmental Management 23: 257-270.
37. Madden, C.P., McEvoy, P.K., Schultz, P.N., Taylor, D.J., Tsymbal, V, Corbin, T.A., Lang, A.J. & Hicks, D.C. (2003). New records of stream invertebrates from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series No. 7: 337-341.
38. Metzeling, L., Perriss, S. & Robinson, D. (2006). Can the detection of salinity and habitat simplification gradients using rapid bioassessment of benthic invertebrates be improved through finer taxonomic resolution or alternative indices? Hydrobiologia 572: 235-252.
39. Nicholls, N. (2000). The insignificance of significance testing. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 85, 981-986.
40. Nielsen, D.L., Brock, M.A., Rees, G.N. & Baldwin, D.S. (2003). Effects of increasing salinity on freshwater ecosystems in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 655-665.
41. NLWRA (2001). ‘Australian Water Resources Assessment 2000’. (National Land and Water Resources Audit, Turner ACT).
42. Norris, R.H. & Hawkins, C.P. (2000). Monitoring river health. Hydrobiologia 435: 5-17.
43. Parr, L.B. & Mason, C.F. (2003). Long-term trends in water quality and their impact on macroinvertebrate assemblages in eutrophic lowland rivers. Water Research 37: 2969-2979.
44. Peckarsky, B.L, Taylor, B.W. & Caudill, C.C. (2000). Hydrologic and behavioural constraints on oviposition of stream insects: implications for adult dispersal. Oecologia 125: 186-200.
45. Petersen, I., Masters, Z., Hildrew, A.G. & Ormerod, S.J. (2004). Dispersal of adult aquatic insects in catchments of differing land use. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 934-950.
46. Plafkin, J.L., Barbour, M.T., Porter, K.D., Gross, S.K. & Hughes, R.M. (1989). ‘Rapid Bioassessment Protocols for Use in Streams and Rivers: Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Fish’. (U.S. EPA EPA/444/4-89-001).
47. Poff, N.L. (1997). Landscape filters and species traits: towards mechanistic understanding and prediction in stream ecology. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16: 391-409.
48. Quinn, J.M., Cooper, A.B., Stroud, M.J. & Burrell, G.P. (1997). Shade effects on stream periphyton and invertebrates: an experiment in streamside channels. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 13: 665-683.
49. Reich, P. & Downes, B.J. (2003). The distribution of aquatic invertebrate egg masses in relation to physical characteristics of oviposition sites at two Victorian upland streams. Freshwater Biology 48: 1497-1513.
50. Roy, A.H., Rosemond, A.D., Paul, M.J., Leigh, D.S. & Wallace, J.B. (2003). Stream macroinvertebrate response to catchment urbanisation (Georgia, U.S.A.). Freshwater Biology 48: 329-346.
51. Ruse, L.P. (1996). Multivariate techniques relating macroinvertebrate and environmental data for a river catchment. Water Research 30: 3017-3024.
52. Rutherford, J.C. & Kefford, B.J. (2005). ‘Effects of Salinity of Stream Ecosystems: Improving Models for Macroinvertebrates’. CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 22/05. (CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra).
53. Ryan, P.A. (1991). Environmental effects of sediment on New Zealand streams: a review. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 25: 207-221.
54. Soldner, M., Stephen, I., Ramos, L., Angus, R., Wells, N.C., Grosso, A. & Crane, M. (2004). Relationship between macroinvertebrate fauna and environmental variables in small streams of the Dominican Republic. Water Research 38: 863-874.
55. Suter, PJ. (1986). The Ephemeroptera (mayflies) of South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 19: 339-397.
56. Suter, PJ. (1997). ‘Preliminary Guide to the Identification of Nymphs of Australian Baetid Mayflies (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) Found in Flowing Waters’. Identification Guide No. 14. (Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury).
57. Suter, PJ. (1999). ‘Illustrated Key to the Australian Caenid Nymphs (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae)’. Identification Guide No. 23. (Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury).
58. Suter, PJ. & Bishop, J.E. (1990). Stoneflies (Plecoptera) of South Australia. In ‘Mayflies and Stoneflies’ (Ed. I.C. Campbell) pp189-207. (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands).
59. Suter, PJ., Conrick, D., Cockayne, B. & Choy, S. (2002). ‘Habitat Profiles of Queensland Mayflies, Families Baetidae, Caenidae and Prosopistomatidae’. Identification Guide No. 44. (Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury).
60. Suter, P.J., Dean, J., Cartwright, D., Sutcliffe, K., Davies, P., Pinder, A. & Bryce, C. (2006). ‘Habitat Profiles of Selected Australian Aquatic Insects’. Available at http://www.environment.sov.au/biodiversitv/abrs/publications/electronic-books/aauatic-insects.html. [Accessed 20 August 2008].
61. Towns, D.R. (1985). Limnological characteristics of a South Australian intermittent stream, Brown Hill Creek. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 821-837.
62. Walker, K.F. (1985). A review of the ecological effects of river regulation in Australia. Hydrobiologia 125: 111-129.
63. Walsh, C.J. (2006). Biological indicators of stream health using macroinvertebrate assemblage composition: a comparison of sensitivity to an urban gradient. Marine and Freshwater Research 57: 37-47.
64. Zar, J.H. (1984). ‘Biostatistical Analysis’. (Prentice-Hall, Inc, New Jersey, United States of America).
65. Zimmerman, E.M. & Death, R.G. (2002). Effect of substrate stability and canopy cover on stream invertebrate communities. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 537-545.