Assessment of Water Pollution using Diatom Community Structure and Species Distribution — A Case Study in a Tropical River Basin

1990 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. S. A. Nather Khan
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Diatom Community ◽  
Tropical River

scholarly journals Assessing Risk and Sources of Heavy Metals in a Tropical River Basin: A Case Study of the Selangor River, Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1659-1671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faridah Othman ◽  
Md. Sadek Chowdhury ◽  
Wan Zurina Wan Jaafar ◽  
E.M. Mohammad Faresh ◽  
S.M. Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Tropical River

Water Pollution and Urbanisation Trends in Lebanon: Litani River Basin Case Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 397-415
Author(s):  
Jamal M. Khatib ◽  
Safaa Baydoun ◽  
A. A. ElKordi
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Litani River

Revealing the relationship between microbial community structure in natural biofilms and the pollution level in urban rivers: a case study in the Qinhuai River basin, Yangtze River Delta

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1163-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Cai ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Peifang Wang ◽  
Lihua Niu ◽  
Wenlong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Pollution ◽  
Ammonia Nitrogen ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
Urban Rivers ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Alpha Beta ◽  
Qinhuai River

River pollution is one of the most challenging environmental issues, but the effect of river pollution levels on the biofilm communities has not been well-studied. Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of environmental parameters and the biofilm communities were investigated in the Qinhuai River basin, Nanjing, China. Water samples were grouped into three clusters reflecting their varying pollution levels of relatively slight pollution, moderated pollution, and high pollution by hierarchical cluster analysis. In different clusters, the biofilm communities mainly differed in the proportion of Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria. As the dominant classes of Proteobacteria, Alpha-, Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria seemed to show an upward trend followed by a small fluctuation in the abundance with the escalation of water pollution level. Results of redundancy analysis demonstrated that temperature, total nitrogen to total phosphorus ratios (TN/TP) and concentrations of ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N) and TN were mainly responsible for the variation in bacterial community structure. The occurrences of Alpha-, Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria were closely associated with higher temperature, higher concentrations of NH3-N and TN and a lower TN/TP ratio. This study may provide a theoretical basis for the water pollution control and ecological restoration in urban rivers under different pollution levels.

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