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- Title
Fish assemblages in European Western Highlands and Western Plains: a type-specific approach to assess ecological quality of running waters.
- Authors
GRENOUILLET, G.; ROSET, N.; GOFFAUX, D.; BREINE, J.; SIMOENS, I.; DE LEEUW, J. J.; KESTEMONT, P.
- Abstract
After typological pre-classification of 398 calibration sites, fish-based metric models were used to predict the impact of human activities on river quality in European Western Highlands and Western Plains ecoregions. Calibration sites were grouped into six assemblage types and according to their geomorphology; test sites were assigned to their corresponding assemblage type. Five anthropogenic variables were used to describe the impact level of each site and stepwise discriminant analysis was performed to: (i) avoid redundancy between metrics; (ii) examine how selected metrics discriminated impact classes and (iii) predict ecological status for each site of the given fish type. Globally, this approach predicted the impact class correctly for 64% of sites. The difference between observed and predicted impact was more than one class for only 2.5% of the sites. When validating this approach with an independent data set, differences between observed and predicted impact values never exceeded 2 impact classes, but these differences varied in size among countries.
- Subjects
UPLANDS; FISHES; RIVERS; PLAINS; ECOLOGICAL regions; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL geography; LANDFORMS; WATER
- Publication
Fisheries Management & Ecology, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 6, p509
- ISSN
0969-997X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2400.2007.00586.x