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Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Relation to Agricultural Land Use in Southern Illinois Headwater Streams
Principia CollegeN.J. Boyer-Rechlin
G.L. BrulandM.A. Rechlin
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Introduction:Illinois Land Use (LU)
Illinois LU change 1820-2007• Prairie: 59% <1%• Forest: 38% 17%
Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico• 15% N; 10%P comes from Illinois
Jersey County, IL • Highly forested & highly cultivated regions
Representative of IL LU distributions• 3 IL natural divisions
http://crystal.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/landcover/nass07.html
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Introduction:Macroinvertebrates
Trophic relationships• Transform/transport organic matter• Terrestrial/aquatic linkages
Bioassessment• Reflect stream quality trends• Hilsenhoff’s Biotic Index• State stream watch programs
Macroinvertebrates & Agriculture• Subsidy/stress threshold: 35-40% watershed
agriculture
http://www.dep.wv.gov/WWE/getinvolved/sos/Pages/Benthics.aspx
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Purpose
Characterize benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in Jersey County headwater streams
Investigate the effects of upstream agriculture on macroinvertebrate communities
Assess the effectiveness of macroinvertebrate community metrics in qualifying regional stream quality
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Methods Riffles sampled in 15 perennial
streams• Fall 2013• Watersheds < 10km2
• 4.6%-80.2% watershed agriculture
Water quality w/YSI probe
Discharge, wetted/channel width, velocity, habitat quality assessment (US EPA)
Family level ID
Functional feeding groups (FFGs)
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Site Photos
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ResultsLand Use Distributions
NLCD 2006 3 spatial scales: 50m, 150m, watershed
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Results:Family Composition
Hydropsychidae Gammaridae Asellidae
Baetidae Chironomidae Perlodidae
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Results:FFG Composition
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 150%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
%Scrapers
%Predators
%CG
%CF
% Shredder
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Results:Principal Components Analysis
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Results:Family Relationships
%Agriculture (wshed)
%Agriculture (150m)
%Agriculture (50m)
%Forest (wshed)
%Forest (150m)
%Forest (50m)
Gammaridae -.581 (.023)**
-.477 (.072)*
-0.446 (0.095)*
.586 (.022)**
.501 (.057)*
0.344 (0.210)
Asellidae -.005 (.985)
-.172 (.541`)
-0.293 (0.289)
.026 (.928)
.199 (.476)
-0.006 (0.984)
Hydropsychidae .579 (.019)**
.603 (.017)**
0.653 (0.008)**
-.617 (.014)**
-.637 (.011) **
-0.419 (0.120)
Baetidae .048 (.864)
-.071 (.802)
-0.118 (0.675)
-.036 (.899)
.048 (.865)
0.181 (0.519)
Chironomidae .203 (.469)
.140 (.618)
0.106 (0.707)
-.208 (.456)
-.148 (.599)
-0.042 (0.881)
0.00% 10.00% 20.00% 30.00% 40.00% 50.00% 60.00% 70.00%0.00%
10.00%20.00%30.00%40.00%50.00%60.00%70.00%80.00%90.00%
f(x) = 0.88121054254742 x + 0.187922614491286R² = 0.426325020584984
% Agriculture 50m
Perc
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Hyd
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y-ch
idae
*= p<0.1; **= p<0.05
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Results:Stream Quality Indices
Site Family Biotic Index (FBI) H’ Richness Evenness1 4.4 1.53 9 0.672 4.1 0.07 2 0.103 4.9 1.10 6 0.564 4.6 1.37 8 0.595 5.4 1.28 6 0.726 4.9 1.32 7 0.687 5.6 1.37 6 0.708 4.7 1.57 9 0.719 4.1 1.09 8 0.5010 6.0 0.73 3 0.6611 4.4 1.46 12 0.5912 4.7 1.02 6 0.5713 4.0 0.83 9 0.3814 5.6 1.48 12 0.5915 4.1 0.42 5 0.26
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Discussion:Community Characterization
Communities differ from those in highly degraded IL streams (Gorman, 1987; Stone et al., 2005)• Collector-Filterer vs. Collector-Gatherer dominance
Lack of EPT taxa low stream quality across the region• Perlodidae indicator taxa for reference quality streams
Multiple community structures?• Sites 2, 10, 15 > 95% shredders• Hard-water spring communities (Wetzel and Webb, 2007)
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Discussion:Stream Quality Metrics
Dominance of Hydropsychidae indicates Ag impact• Hyper-dominance in response to organic/nutrient pollution
H’, Richness, Evenness• Low H’ for all sites suggests region wide degradation
FBI• Most streams “good” or “very good” rating.• Low diversity/evenness decrease effectiveness of FBI
Highly impacted streams may not have been sampled All sites have intact riparian buffers & <60% cropland
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Conclusions Upstream agriculture significantly impacts macroinvertebrate
community structure in JC (Middle Mississippi Border Division) streams
Hilsenhoff’s FBI and other family metrics may not be effective means for monitoring/comparing stream quality in impacted, low diversity regions
Streams across the MMBD in JC (<80%agriculture) all have similar functional quality;• Both pristine and highly degrades streams are rare
Perlodidae at site 14 suggests that higher quality stream communities may still exist in the regions least degraded watersheds
At least 2 reference quality macroinvertebrate communities may exist in JC streams
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Acknowledgements Principia College Advisory support
• Ally Ringhausen• Mike Rhaesa• John Lovseth• Dr. Chrissy McAllister
Field Assistants• Leah Pyne• Karlin Krishniswami• Chelsea Chichester