Project/Activity

Project/Activity

Title: Hampshire Avon DTC Ecological Monitoring
Related Party - Individual (Principal Investigator): Doctor Iwan Jones* (Queen Mary University of London) Email address: j.i.jones@qmul.ac.uk
Related Party - Organisation (Funder): Defra
Related Party - Individual (Collaborator): Doctor John Murphy (Queen Mary University of London) Email address: j.f.murphy@qmul.ac.uk
Related Party - Individual (Collaborator): Doctor James Pretty (Queen Mary University of London) Email address: j.l.pretty@qmul.ac.uk
Related Party - Individual (Collaborator): Chas Duerdoth (Queen Mary University of London) Email address: c.p.duerdoth@qmul.ac.uk
Related Party - Individual (Collaborator): Doctor Amanda Arnold (Queen Mary University of London) Email address: a.arnold@qmul.ac.uk
Abstract:
In conjunction with the hydrological and water quality monitoring, a monitoring regime was designed to detect how freshwater ecology responds to changes in agricultural diffuse pollutants. The data gathered have been used to confirm the WFD ecological status of the study sub-catchments, to explore spatial and temporal variability in biological quality elements, and to identify those pollutants that are most likely to be causing failure to achieve Good Ecological Status. This background data provides an evidence base to both inform, and assess the impact of, mitigation measures. Invertebrates, diatoms and macrophytes were monitored in each subcatchment and WFD tools have been used to establish the status of these Biological Quality Elements (BQE). The biological monitoring sites are closely matched to the hydrological and water quality monitoring stations, which will allow observed change in the BQEs to be linked to reductions in diffuse pollution and on-farm diffuse pollution mitigation measures. Variation in the quantity of deposited fine-grained sediment in the stream bed was also monitored.
Subject Keywords: Rivers; Water Framework Directive; Streams; Biological monitoring; Ecological indicators; Macroinvertebrates; Macrophytes; Diatoms; Fishes; Sediment sampling
Geographic Keywords: Avon (Hampshire); Avon (Devon)
Time Window -  Start: 2010-09-01 00:00:00 End: 2013-12-31 00:00:00
Publication Date: 2016-05-09

Has Dataset	Has Parent Project/Activity	Has Child Project/Activity
Hampshire Avon DTC Deposited Fine-grained Sediment Monitoring Dataset 2010-2013 Hampshire Avon DTC Diatom Monitoring Dataset 2011-2013 Hampshire Avon DTC Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Dataset 2010-2013 Hampshire Avon DTC Macrophyte Monitoring Dataset 2011-2013	Data for DTC Phase I from Hampshire Avon DTC Consortium