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Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Multiple Pressures in a Peri-Urban Mediterranean River

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  • Dionissis Latinopoulos

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece)

  • Chrysoula Ntislidou

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece
    Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece)

  • Maria Lazarina

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece
    Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece)

  • Vassiliki Papaevangelou

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece)

  • Christos Akratos

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece)

  • Ifigenia Kagalou

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, 67100 Xanthi, Greece)

Abstract

Despite peri-urban areas being crucial for ecosystem service provisioning, they usually become degraded, as they are burdened with effluents from urban production activities. Such is the case of Laspias River (Thrace, Greece), where a series of diffuse and point pollution sources are met throughout its course, neglecting the fact that it discharges into a protected area. In an attempt to assist possible management implications in this less-researched river, two years of investigative monitoring provided the insight to test the effect of abiotic parameters in the benthic invertebrate biota and water quality, in turn. The results revealed an avalanche of pressures, where nutrients and organic pollution loads diminish richness and biodiversity, losing any temporal or seasonal pattern, resulting in biotic (taxonomic/functional) homogenization. The river is at a tipping point, and tailored measures must be designed and implemented immediately.

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  • Dionissis Latinopoulos & Chrysoula Ntislidou & Maria Lazarina & Vassiliki Papaevangelou & Christos Akratos & Ifigenia Kagalou, 2023. "Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Multiple Pressures in a Peri-Urban Mediterranean River," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(24), pages 1-18, December.
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