BIOMONITORIG OF WATER QUALITY USING MACROINVERTEBRATE AS BIOINDICATORS

PALMA, RODRIGO; KOHLMANN, BERT; MACCHI, PABLO

Analytical Methods for Agricultural Contaminants

Elsevier

Año: 2019; p. 157 - 169

Biomonitoring is the use of biological responses to assess changes in the environment, generally caused by human activities. Macroinvertebrate community structural changes are studied and evaluated as indicators of pollution (organic and inorganic) processes. One of the most used biomonitoring indices in Latin America is the BMWP (Biological Monitoring Working Party) (National Water Council, 1981) adapted to country or regional/local conditions (Prat et al., 2009, Springer, 2012).