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Assessment of water quality in urban streams based on larvae of Hydropsyche angustipennis (Insecta, Trichoptera)

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Hydropsyche angustipennis (Insecta, Trichoptera) larvae were used as indicators of stream contamination in the city of Łódź, Poland. The larvae of H. angustipennis were present at 9 sampling sites established for this study. Significant differences between the sampling sites were noted for environmental parameters as well as concentration of chemicals in water and biodiversity of aquatic invertebrates. Statistical analyses showed significant correlations between quantity and quality of water pollutants and density of H. angustipennis larvae, concentration of metals in larval bodies, and the appearance of morphological anomalies in tracheal gills and anal papillae. In comparison to literature data, the level of contaminants in water, including heavy metals, for each of the studied streams of Łódź was surprisingly low while concentration of these metals in the whole bodies of H. angustipennis larvae was very high. Some of the heavy metals present in the water might be identified only after conducting analyses of their concentration in the larval bodies. Therefore, long life cycle of H. angustipennis and heavy metal tolerance with a possibility of their accumulation in the larval bodies may constitute a support to traditional chemical assessment of water quality or traditional biomonitoring.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Janusz Mazur from the Laboratory of Computer and Analytic Techniques, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź for analyzing the heavy metal concentrations in studied samples and Łukasz Głowacki, PhD, for help in improving the English language quality in text.

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    Mariusz Tszydel, Dagmara Błońska & Mateusz Zieliński

  2. Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, 12/16 Banacha Str., 90-237, Łódź, Poland

    Marcin Markowski & Janusz Majecki

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Tszydel, M., Markowski, M., Majecki, J. et al. Assessment of water quality in urban streams based on larvae of Hydropsyche angustipennis (Insecta, Trichoptera). Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 14687–14701 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4638-9

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