Beta
298280

Applying an Integral Biological Index to Assess Water Quality in Freshwater Ecosystems: Ktiban Channel

Article

Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Scientists consider biomonitoring necessary for identifying the response of living creatures to the causes of environmental degradation. This method relies on the description of river conditions so that plans to reduce dangers, or for restoration and environmental continuity, can be put into place. In this paper, we evaluated Ktiban stream water quality (Ktiban is one of the branches of Shatt Al-Arab's River) using fish as bioindicators. The biomonitoring platform in this paper includes diversity, bio-evidence, a multi-metric approach, IBI (Integrate biological index), and a multi-variate approach (PCA). Fish were monthly collected using four fishing methods. Twenty-four species belonging to 12 families were caught using those methods, 9 of which were native species and 7 were exotic species, with 8 marine species distributed in percentages of 5.46%, 80.92%, and 13.62%, respectively. IBI was divided into three groups; the species richness group had specific numerical abundances of exotic and native species, with the abundance of the exotic species Oreochromis niloticus showing dominance in the fish community composition, with high percentages of the probable species. The metrics of omnivore and herbivore species showed dominance in the stream's fish community. IBI's value reached 50.52% and the stream was considered to have a normal environment. PCA showed the effectiveness and percentage of IBI. 

DOI

10.21608/ejabf.2023.298280

Keywords

Bioindicators, fish environment, Multivariate technique

Authors

First Name

Amjed Kadhum

Last Name

Resen et al.

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

-

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

27

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

40002

Issue Date

2023-03-01

Receive Date

2023-05-08

Publish Date

2023-03-01

Page Start

823

Page End

839

Print ISSN

1110-6131

Online ISSN

2536-9814

Link

https://ejabf.journals.ekb.eg/article_298280.html

Detail API

https://ejabf.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=298280

Order

51

Type

Original Article

Type Code

103

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries

Publication Link

https://ejabf.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Applying an Integral Biological Index to Assess Water Quality in Freshwater Ecosystems: Ktiban Channel

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Dec 2024