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The Correlation between Water Quality and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Indices in the Jinwi Stream  

Choi, Ah-Reum (Department of Life Science, Kyonggi University)
Park, Sun-Jin (Research Institute for Basic Science of Kyonggi University)
Kim, Jin-Young (Department of Life Science, Kyonggi University)
Song, Mee-Young (Department of Environmental Policy, Gyeonggi Research Institute)
Kong, Dong-Soo (Department of Life Science, Kyonggi University)
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Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment / v.45, no.1, 2012 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Jinwi stream, which is located in the Gyeonggi Province, shows a large variation in water quality from the upper stream to downstream. Therefore the Jinwi stream is suitable for assessing changes to the benthic macroinvertebrate community structure according to saprobity. This study was conducted to find out the applicability of biotic indices for water quality pollution through an analysis of the correlation between water quality and benthic macroinvertebrate indices for the Jinwi stream. Along with the pollution of water, the species composition of Ephemeroptera decreased, while that of Annelida increased. The ecological score for the benthic macroinvertebrate community (ESB) showed more significant correlations than any other biotic index (H', DI, R1, J, EPT and KSI) with the water quality items.
Keywords
benthic macroinvertebrate; biotic indices; ESB; Jinwi stream; saprobity;
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