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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2007, Volume43

114 pages

Issue price - $399.00

The Use of Structural Indices of Macrozoobenthic Communities in Bioindication of the Quality of Streaming Waters

V. P. Semenchenko
Institute of Zoology National Academy of Sciences, Republican Centre of Radiation Control and Environment Monitoring (RCREM), Minsk, Belarus

M. D. Moroz
Institute of Zoology National Academy of Sciences, Republican Centre of Radiation Control and Environment Monitoring (RCREM), Minsk, Belarus

I. G. Tishchikov
Institute of Zoology National Academy of Sciences, Republican Centre of Radiation Control and Environment Monitoring (RCREM), Minsk, Belarus

ABSTRACT

A comparative analysis of structural pattern of macrozoobentos communities as bioindicators of water quality (WQ) in water bodies of the Berezina River basin was carried out. Two types of metrics were analyzed: those based on species richness and diversity and based on the ratio of abundance of tolerant (intolerant) species and common abundance. The first was characterized by lesser sensitivity to the changes in WQ in gradient of sites studied. Multimetric indices calculated for the first type of metrics give a more accurate assessment of WQ.