Development and evaluation of benthic algal bioassessment methods for use in northern Canada

加拿大北部使用的底栖藻类生物评估方法的开发和评估

• 批准号: 356907-2007
• 负责人: Hall, Roland
• 金额: $ 7.26万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Projects Supplemental Competition
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=403141
• 关键词: Development; evaluation; benthic; algal; bioassessment

Northern rivers and lakes are under increasing pressures from environmental stressors but their effective management, including the ability to predict adaptive capacity of ecosystems and to identify appropriate interventions, continues to be hampered by inadequate and yet fundamental knowledge to characterize current ecological conditions. Benthic Algal Bioassessment Protocols will be developed for use in rivers and lakes of Canada's North to monitor changes in water quality and ecological integrity affected by human impacts and climate change, and will contribute to the Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) to be implemented in selected northern National Parks beginning in 2008. In partnership with Parks Canada, rivers located in and adjacent to Nahanni National Park and lakes in Vuntut National Park and the adjacent Old Crow Flats Special Management Area will serve as pilot studies because the current health of these ecosystems may

北方的河流和湖泊正受到环境压力源的越来越大的压力，但对它们的有效管理，包括预测生态系统的适应能力和确定适当干预措施的能力，仍然受到表征当前生态状况的知识不足和基本知识不足的阻碍。将制定底栖藻类生物评估议定书，用于加拿大北部的河流和湖泊，以监测受人类影响和气候变化影响的水质和生态完整性的变化，并将为加拿大水生生物监测网络作出贡献，该网络将于2008年开始在选定的北方国家公园实施。与加拿大公园局合作，将对纳汉尼国家公园内和附近的河流、Vuntut国家公园内的湖泊和邻近的老乌鸦平原特别管理区进行试点研究，因为这些生态系统目前的健康状况可能会影响到它们的生态系统。