Effect of mining site seepage and copper plant waste water on the water quality and epilithic diatom communities in Maden Stream (ElazÄ±ÄŸ-Turkey)

Vesile Yıldırım; Okan Külköylüoğlu

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Effect of mining site seepage and copper plant waste water on the water quality and epilithic diatom communities in Maden Stream (ElazÄ±ÄŸ-Turkey)

https://doi.org/10.14715/cmb/2018.64.9.6

Vesile Yıldırım

Department of Biology, Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey

Okan Külköylüoğlu

Department of Biology, Abant ć°zzet Baysal University, Gölköy, Bolu, Turkey

Corresponding Author(s) : Vesile Yıldırım

vyildirim@firat.edu.tr

Cellular and Molecular Biology, Vol. 64 No. 9: Issue 9
Article Published : June 30, 2018

Abstract

The present study investigated the effect of pollution caused by mining site seepage, copper plant flotation and domestic wastewaters on the water quality and epilithic diatom communities in the Maden Stream, ElazÄ±ÄŸ (Turkey). Maden Stream's epilithic diatoms, water chemistry and physical variables were examined between January 2008- December 2008 which identified 4 stream sites taken the samples of montly periods. During the study, a total of 77 diatom taxa belonging to 24 genera were identified. Three of which Cymbella, Navicula, and Nitzschia included the highest number of species. Species dominancy was changed among the stations where the most common species found from first, second, third, and fourth stations were Cymbella affinis, Ulnaria ulna, Achnanthes minutissima and Surirella angustata, and Gomphonema parvulum, respectively. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) explained 82.6% of the correlation between 66 species and 12 environmental variables among which EC, pH, DO, and Mn, were the most explanatory variables for species occurrence. Individual species showed different ecological tolerance and optimum levels. Among the species with cosmopolitan characteristics, eight of them (C. cistula, U. ulna, Nitzscia palea, N. sigmoida, G. parvulum, Achnanthes laceolatum, Navicula pupula, and Diatoma tenuis) were the most common species with relatively high tolerance levels to those environmental variables measured.

Keywords

Epilithic diatoms Water quality Heavy metals Diversity Pollution.

Yıldırım, V., & Külköylüoğlu, O. (2018). Effect of mining site seepage and copper plant waste water on the water quality and epilithic diatom communities in Maden Stream (ElazÄ±ÄŸ-Turkey). Cellular and Molecular Biology, 64(9), 39–45. https://doi.org/10.14715/cmb/2018.64.9.6

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Watanable, T. , Asai, K. and Houki, A. 1986. Numerical estimation to organik pollution flowing water by using the epilithic diatom assamblage- diatom assamblage index (DAIpo). Sci.Total Environ., 55, 209-218.

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Yang, Y. , Cao, J., Pei, G. 2015. Using benthic diatom assaemblages to assess human impacts on streams across a rural to urban gradient. Environmental Science and Pollution Reserarch 5026. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5026-1.

Kırat, G. ,Bölücrk, C., 2010. The Effect of the Digestion to Metal Distribution in the Stream Sediments in the Maden (Elazığ) Vicinity. Fırat Univ. Journal of Engineering 22 (2), 147-15

APHA 1988. Standart Methods for the Examinations of Water and Wastewater. American Public Health Association, Washington, p.1268.

Krammer, K. and H. Lange-Bertalot. 1986. Bacillariophyceae. 1. Teil: Naviculaceae. Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa.Band 2/1. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgard, New York. p 876.

Krammer, K. H. Lange-Bertalot. 1988. Bacillariophyceae. 2. Teil: Bacillariophyceae, Epithemiaceae, Surirellaceae. Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Band 2/2. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgard, New York. P 596.

Krammer, K., H. Lange-Bertalot. 1991 a. Bacillariophyceae. 3. Teil: Centrales, Fragilariaceae, Eunotiaceae. Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Band 2/3. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgard Nev York. P 576.

Krammer, K., H., Lange-Bertalot. 1991 b Bacillariophyceae. 4. Teil: Achnanthaceae. Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa.Band 2/4. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgard, New York. p 473.

Shannon, C. E. and W. Weaver. 1949. The mathematical theory of communication. Univ. of Illions Press, Urbana 177 pp.

Juggins, S. 2003. C2 User Guide: Software for ecological and Palaeoecological Data Analysis and Visualization. University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Ter Break CJF, Barendregt JG. 1986. Weight averaging of species indicator values: its efficiency in environmental calibration. Math Biosci. 78:57-72.

Külköylüoğlu, O. (2009). Ecological Succession of Freshwater Ostracoda (Crustacea) in A Newly Developed Rheocrene Spring (Bolu, Turkey). Tr. J. Zoology. 33, 115-123.

Gomez N, Licursi M (2001) The Pampean Diatom Index (P D I) for assessment of rivers and stream in Argentina. Aquatik Ecology 35, 173-181.

Palmer, C.M. 1980. Algae and Water Pollution. Castle Hause pub. Ltd. New York.

Kelly, M.G. , Penny, C.J, and B. A. Whitton 1995. Comparative performance of benthic diatom indices used to assess river water quality.

Brown, J.B. and H.J. Olive . 1995. Diatom comminities in the Cuyago River (U S A) change in species composition 1974 and 1992 folloving renovations in waste water managment. OHIO J. SCI. 95 (3) : 254-260.

Deniseger, J, Austin 1986. Periphyton communites in a pristine mountain stream above and below heavy metal mining operations. Freshwater Biol. 16: 209-218.

Medly, C., N. and Clements W., H., 1998. Responses Of Dıatom Communıtıes To Heavy Metals In Streams: The Influence of Longıtudınal Varıatıon. Ecological applications. Vol.8 (3) : 631-644

Nakanishi, Y. , Sumita, M. , Yumita, K, Yamada, T. and Honjo, T. 2004 Heavy-metal pollution and its state algae in Kakehashi River and Goldani River at the foot of Ogoya Mine, Ishikawa Prefecture. Analytical sciences.Vol.20 73-78.

Chen, Xu., Changan Li , Suzanne, M.G., and Yang, X., 2014. Diatom response to heavy metal pollution and nutrient enrichment in an urban lake: evidence from paleolimnology Ann. Limnol. - Int. J. Lim. 50 (2014) 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1051/limn/2014004

Duong, T,T.,Morin, S., Herlory, O., Feurtet-Mazel, A., Coste, M., Boudou, A. 2008. Seasonal effects of cadmium accumulation in periphytic diatom communities of freshwater biofilims. Aquat. Toxicol. 90-19-28.

Rushforth SR, Brotherson JD, Funglada N& Eveson WE (1981). The effectts of dissolved heavy metals on attached diatoms in the Unitah Basin Of Utah, U.S.A. Hydrobiologia 83: 313-323.

Patric, R. And C.W. Reimer, 1975. The Diatoms of the United States. Vol II, Academic Science, Phyladelphia.

Round, F. E. 1981. The ecology of Algae. London Cambridge University Press.

Yun, M. S., Joo, M. H., Jung, W. 2014. The relationship between epilithic diatom communities and changes in water guality along the lower Han River, South Korea.