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http://dx.doi.org/10.11626/KJEB.2019.37.1.008

The influence of chemical water quality on fish trophic guilds, pollution tolerance, and multi-metric ecological health in the main streams of Mangyeong River  

Na, Hyun-Hee (Department of Biological Science, College of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
Lee, Sang-Jae (Chemical Safety Division, Saemangeum Regional Environmental Office)
An, Kwang-Guk (Department of Biological Science, College of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University)
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Korean Journal of Environmental Biology / v.37, no.1, 2019 , pp. 8-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
The objectives of this study were to analyze the influence of chemical water quality on fish guilds, pollution tolerance and the multi-metric ecological health, based on the Fish Assessment Index (FAI) in the main stream of Mangyeong River between 2009-2016. The quality of water with specific conductivity, TP, and $NH_4-N$ got worse dramatically in the down region. During the study, a total of 50 species were collected and the most dominant species was Zacco platypus. Also known as tolerant species, accounted 22.9% of the total abundances, thus indicating a trophic degradation. The downstream region (S5) had the highest number of fish external abnormalities, indicating a degradation of ecological health, based on the fish assemblages. Pearson correlation analysis indicated that relative abundance of tolerant fish species and omnivore fish species had a significant positive correlation(r>0.30, p<0.05) with values of BOD, conductivity and $NH_4-N$. Whereas, the relative abundance of the sensitive species and insectivore species had a significant negative relations (r<-0.30, p<0.001) with the parameters. The mean obtained from the multi-metric fish model, based on the FAI of all sites was 47 (n=40). This indicated a "fair condition" in the ecological health, and the downstream regions (S3-S5) were judged as "bad condition", indicating an influence of the chemical degradation on the ecological health.
Keywords
chemical water quality; fish guild; pollution tolerance; ecological health;
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