Zinc and copper have the greatest relative importance for river macroinvertebrate richness at a national scale

Johnson, Andrew C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1570-3764; Sadykova, Dinara; Qu, Yueming ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3742-8233; Keller, Virginie D.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-5363; Bachiller-Jareno, Nuria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9732-6725; Jürgens, Monika D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6526-589X; Eastman, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8212-5872; Edwards, Francois; Rizzo, Clarissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1525-0912; Scarlett, Peter M.; Sumpter, John P.. 2025 Zinc and copper have the greatest relative importance for river macroinvertebrate richness at a national scale. Environmental Science & Technology, 59 (8). 4068-4079. 10.1021/acs.est.4c06849

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Abstract/Summary

It is important to discover what change led to the improvement in European macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the period from 1990−2000s and what prevents further desirable gains from taking place today. A 30-year data set from 1,457 macroinvertebrate monitoring sites spread across England, with 65,032 discrete observations was combined with 41 chemical, physical, habitat, and geographic variables. This data set was analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effect models and generalized additive mixed models. To include all combinations of the variables required to address each question, required over 20,000 model runs. It was found that no variables were more consistently and strongly associated with the overall family richness than Zn and Cu. Zn and Cu led both for the era of large gains in richness up to 2005 and also in the later period of 2006–2018 when few further gains were made.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1021/acs.est.4c06849
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity and Land Use (2025-) Environmental Pressures and Responses (2025-) Water and Climate Science (2025-)
ISSN:	0013-936X
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	river, freshwater invertebrates, statistical modeling, chemical stressors, habitat and geographic conditions
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Hydrology
Date made live:	21 Feb 2025 13:36 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/538940

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