Persistence of chironomids in metal polluted environments

Authors
  • M. Boonstra
  • M. Asselman
  • P. Maas
  • R.A. Verweij
Publication date 2009
Journal Proceedings of the Netherlands Entomological Society Meeting
Event Entomologendag 2008, Ede-Wageningen, the Netherlands
Volume | Issue number 20
Pages (from-to) 9-15
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Abstract Chironomid community composition of sites in the Dommel differing in metal contamination was compared and linked to the cadmium concentration in individual larvae. Chironomid community composition was determined using mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequencing. We demonstrated that metal contamination resulted in shifts in community composition: the reference and polluted site shared only one taxon and the polluted site was inhabited by taxa which were better capable of handling cadmium.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: Proceedings of the Netherlands Entomological Society meeting: Volume 20
Publisher: Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Published at http://www.nev.nl/sete/sete-2009/009-015-BoonstraEA-2009.pdf
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