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Využití databáze SALAMANDER pro analýzy biologických aspektů vlivu vysychání na drobné vodní toky
| Title in English | EXPLOITATION POTENTIAL OF THE SALAMANDER DATABASE FOR ANALYSES OF BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DROUGHT IMPACTS ON SMALL WATERCOURSES |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The project of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic No. TA02020395 (2012-2015) is focused on the research of drought impacts on the biota of small streams. The main objectives of the project include the development of a multimetric method for a retrospective biological indication of drought episodes based on the analysis of invertebrate communities inhabiting the stream bottom (benthic macroinvertebrates). Another outcome of the project will be a map of streams' vulnerability to desiccation. The project includes field research, extensive literature recherché and the analysis of data available from various resources, with the most important one being the dataase of the former Agriculture Water Management Authority called SALAMANDER, which includes the results of about fifteen-year long monitoring of small watercourses. The database contains information related to the control profiles as well as to individual samples and their results regarding biota, water and sediment. The information from both the permanent and intermittent streams together with the results of our own field research and the literature recherché have led to the selection of individual metrics (indices), the suitability of which is recently tested for drought bioindication and also for the definition of the areas vulnerable to desiccation. |
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