Assessment and Analysis of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community |
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학술지명 ISE
저자 김정곤,박상영,허준욱,김세현
발표일 2010-09-12
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Recently in Korea, lots of interests in river rehabilitation have been emerging; actually, this is not unrelated to a project to rehabilitate the four major rivers (including the Han River, the Nakdong River, Yeongsan River and the Geum River). But this, in turn, would cause the disturbance of riverine ecosystems. Biota generally used as an indicator to assess a biological water environment in rivers and streams are benthic macroinvertebrates that include, mainly, aquatic insecta, platyhelminthes, nematomorpha, annelida, etc. They are one of indicative biota representing saprobic valency or saprobicity in rivers and streams. They are also among the most diverse and rich species in terms of biotic population that inhabit freshwater ecosystems, and play a pivotal role in trophic level (Allan, 1995); they can be said to represent biodiversity. They’re distributed over various habitats, showing a low level of mobility. Many species of them have been differently adapted to different environmental factors and habitats, and are very sensitive to changing water environment. This is why they are frequently used as indicator species to assess the quality of such changing water environment (Dudgeon, 1995; Rosenberg and Resh, 1993) in the area of non-applied and applied ecology (Pennak, 1989). |