Recovery time of macroinvertebrate community from Cd pollution in Longjiang River, Guangxi, China

Yongde CUI; Baoqiang WANG; Yongjing ZHAO; Nick R. BOND; Hongzhu WANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-021-0341-5

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Recovery time of macroinvertebrate community from Cd pollution in Longjiang River, Guangxi, China

Ecology | Updated：2023-04-27

- Recovery time of macroinvertebrate community from Cd pollution in Longjiang River, Guangxi, China
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 40, Issue 1, Pages: 183-194(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
  2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  3.Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, La Trobe University, Wodonga 3690, Australia
- Author bio：
  
  Hongzhu WANG, E-mail: wanghz@ihb.ac.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-021-0341-5
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- Received：27 December 2019，
  
  Accepted：09 March 2020，
  
  Online First：25 February 2021，
  
  Published：2022-01
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Yongde CUI, Baoqiang WANG, Yongjing ZHAO, et al. Recovery time of macroinvertebrate community from Cd pollution in Longjiang River, Guangxi, China[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(1): 183-194.
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Yongde CUI, Baoqiang WANG, Yongjing ZHAO, et al. Recovery time of macroinvertebrate community from Cd pollution in Longjiang River, Guangxi, China[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(1): 183-194. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-021-0341-5.

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Abstract

Estimating recovery times from pollution incident is an important issue of targeted biomonitoring programs. In the present study

the impact and recovery of macroinvertebrate communities from a cadmium wastewater discharge in the Longjiang River

Guangxi

China

in early January 2012 were studied based on 83 samples collected in five surveys within 20 months after the incident. The pollution affected seriously the local aquatic biota

and consequently

the invertebrate abundance and species richness were reduced considerably. Twelve months later

the taxonomic number of macroinvertebrates began to increase. However

sensitive taxa remained rare. Twenty months later

the taxon richness and abundance of macroinvertebrates increased significantly compared to those in the previous four time points. To explore the possible time-scale over which pre-disturbance conditions might occur

we chose four different typical metrics of taxa richness (total taxa number

cumulative taxa number

taxa number per samples

and the Shannon-Wiener diversity index) and extrapolated modeled recovery trajectories. Target values for the four metrics were set at average values for sites from the nearby Lijiang River

which were used as a reference. Assuming a continued linear trajectory

the recovery times were estimated to be 52

and 31 months

respectively

which was roughly 3–5 years. This is consistent with results from recovery times from other studies of acute pollution cases

but contrasted strongly to the much longer recovery times associated with chronic pollution from groundwater contamination and mine-tailing runoff.

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