TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vermaat, Jan E.
AU  - Biberdžić, Vera
AU  - Braho, Vjola
AU  - Budzakoska Gjoreska, Biljana
AU  - Cara, Magdalena
AU  - Dana, Zamira
AU  - Đurašković, Pavle
AU  - Eriksen, Tor Erik
AU  - Hjermann, Dag
AU  - Imeri, Alma
AU  - Jovanović, Katarina
AU  - Krizmanić, Jelena
AU  - Kupe, Lirika
AU  - Loshkoska, Tatjana
AU  - Lynn Kemp, Joanna
AU  - Marković, Aleksandra
AU  - Patceva, Suzana
AU  - Rakočević, Jelena
AU  - Stojanović, Katarina
AU  - Talevska, Marina
AU  - Trajanovska, Sonja
AU  - Trajanovski, Sasho
AU  - Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, Elizabeta
AU  - Vidaković, Danijela
AU  - Zdraveski, Konstantin
AU  - Živić, Ivana
AU  - C. Schneider, Susanne
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4752
AB  - Along six transects in each of six lakes across the Western Balkans, we collected data for three groups of littoral biological water quality indicators: epilithic diatoms, macrophytes, and benthic invertebrates. We assessed the relationships between them and three environmental pressures: nutrient load (eutrophication), hydro-morphological alteration of the shoreline, and water level variation, separating the effect of individual lakes and continuous explanatory variables. Lake water total phosphorus concentration (TP) showed substantial variation but was not related to any of the tested biological indicators, nor to any of the tested pressures. We suggest that this may be due to feedback processes such as P removal in the lake littoral zone. Instead, we found that a gradient in surrounding land-use towards increasing urbanization, and a land-use-based estimate of P run-off, served as a better descriptor of eutrophication. Overall, eutrophication and water level fluctuation were most important for explaining variation in the assessed indicators, whereas shoreline hydro-morphological alteration was less important. Diatom indicators were most responsive to all three pressures, whereas macrophyte biomass and species number responded only to water level fluctuation. The Trophic Diatom Index for Lakes (TDIL) was negatively related to urbanization and wave exposure. This indicates that it is a suitable indicator for pressures related to urbanization, although a confounding effect of wave exposure is possible. Invertebrate abundance responded strongly to eutrophication, but the indicator based on taxonomic composition (Average Score Per Taxon) did not. Our results suggest that our metrics can be applied in Western Balkan lakes, despite the high number of endemic species present in some of these lakes. We argue that local water management should focus on abating the causes of eutrophication and water level fluctuation, whilst preserving sufficient lengths of undeveloped shoreline to ensure good water quality in the long run.
PB  - Elsevier
T2  - Science of the Total Environment
T1  - Relating environmental pressures to littoral biological water quality indicators in Western Balkan lakes: Can we fill the largest gaps?
VL  - 804
SP  - 150160
DO  - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150160
ER  - 

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author = "Vermaat, Jan E. and Biberdžić, Vera and Braho, Vjola and Budzakoska Gjoreska, Biljana and Cara, Magdalena and Dana, Zamira and Đurašković, Pavle and Eriksen, Tor Erik and Hjermann, Dag and Imeri, Alma and Jovanović, Katarina and Krizmanić, Jelena and Kupe, Lirika and Loshkoska, Tatjana and Lynn Kemp, Joanna and Marković, Aleksandra and Patceva, Suzana and Rakočević, Jelena and Stojanović, Katarina and Talevska, Marina and Trajanovska, Sonja and Trajanovski, Sasho and Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, Elizabeta and Vidaković, Danijela and Zdraveski, Konstantin and Živić, Ivana and C. Schneider, Susanne",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Along six transects in each of six lakes across the Western Balkans, we collected data for three groups of littoral biological water quality indicators: epilithic diatoms, macrophytes, and benthic invertebrates. We assessed the relationships between them and three environmental pressures: nutrient load (eutrophication), hydro-morphological alteration of the shoreline, and water level variation, separating the effect of individual lakes and continuous explanatory variables. Lake water total phosphorus concentration (TP) showed substantial variation but was not related to any of the tested biological indicators, nor to any of the tested pressures. We suggest that this may be due to feedback processes such as P removal in the lake littoral zone. Instead, we found that a gradient in surrounding land-use towards increasing urbanization, and a land-use-based estimate of P run-off, served as a better descriptor of eutrophication. Overall, eutrophication and water level fluctuation were most important for explaining variation in the assessed indicators, whereas shoreline hydro-morphological alteration was less important. Diatom indicators were most responsive to all three pressures, whereas macrophyte biomass and species number responded only to water level fluctuation. The Trophic Diatom Index for Lakes (TDIL) was negatively related to urbanization and wave exposure. This indicates that it is a suitable indicator for pressures related to urbanization, although a confounding effect of wave exposure is possible. Invertebrate abundance responded strongly to eutrophication, but the indicator based on taxonomic composition (Average Score Per Taxon) did not. Our results suggest that our metrics can be applied in Western Balkan lakes, despite the high number of endemic species present in some of these lakes. We argue that local water management should focus on abating the causes of eutrophication and water level fluctuation, whilst preserving sufficient lengths of undeveloped shoreline to ensure good water quality in the long run.",
publisher = "Elsevier",
journal = "Science of the Total Environment",
title = "Relating environmental pressures to littoral biological water quality indicators in Western Balkan lakes: Can we fill the largest gaps?",
volume = "804",
pages = "150160",
doi = "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150160"
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Vermaat, J. E., Biberdžić, V., Braho, V., Budzakoska Gjoreska, B., Cara, M., Dana, Z., Đurašković, P., Eriksen, T. E., Hjermann, D., Imeri, A., Jovanović, K., Krizmanić, J., Kupe, L., Loshkoska, T., Lynn Kemp, J., Marković, A., Patceva, S., Rakočević, J., Stojanović, K., Talevska, M., Trajanovska, S., Trajanovski, S., Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, E., Vidaković, D., Zdraveski, K., Živić, I.,& C. Schneider, S.. (2022). Relating environmental pressures to littoral biological water quality indicators in Western Balkan lakes: Can we fill the largest gaps?. in Science of the Total Environment
Elsevier., 804, 150160.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150160

Vermaat JE, Biberdžić V, Braho V, Budzakoska Gjoreska B, Cara M, Dana Z, Đurašković P, Eriksen TE, Hjermann D, Imeri A, Jovanović K, Krizmanić J, Kupe L, Loshkoska T, Lynn Kemp J, Marković A, Patceva S, Rakočević J, Stojanović K, Talevska M, Trajanovska S, Trajanovski S, Veljanoska-Sarafiloska E, Vidaković D, Zdraveski K, Živić I, C. Schneider S. Relating environmental pressures to littoral biological water quality indicators in Western Balkan lakes: Can we fill the largest gaps?. in Science of the Total Environment. 2022;804:150160.
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150160 .

Vermaat, Jan E., Biberdžić, Vera, Braho, Vjola, Budzakoska Gjoreska, Biljana, Cara, Magdalena, Dana, Zamira, Đurašković, Pavle, Eriksen, Tor Erik, Hjermann, Dag, Imeri, Alma, Jovanović, Katarina, Krizmanić, Jelena, Kupe, Lirika, Loshkoska, Tatjana, Lynn Kemp, Joanna, Marković, Aleksandra, Patceva, Suzana, Rakočević, Jelena, Stojanović, Katarina, Talevska, Marina, Trajanovska, Sonja, Trajanovski, Sasho, Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, Elizabeta, Vidaković, Danijela, Zdraveski, Konstantin, Živić, Ivana, C. Schneider, Susanne, "Relating environmental pressures to littoral biological water quality indicators in Western Balkan lakes: Can we fill the largest gaps?" in Science of the Total Environment, 804 (2022):150160,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150160 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schneider, Susanne C.
AU  - Biberdžić, Vera
AU  - Braho, Vjola
AU  - Budzakoska Gjoreska, Biljana
AU  - Cara, Magdalena
AU  - Dana, Zamira
AU  - Đurašković, Pavle
AU  - Eriksen, Tor Erik
AU  - Hjermann, Dag
AU  - Imeri, Alma
AU  - Jovanović, Katarina
AU  - Krizmanić, Jelena
AU  - Kupe, Lirika
AU  - Loshkoska, Tatjana
AU  - Lynn Kemp, Joanna
AU  - Marković, Aleksandra
AU  - Patceva, Suzana
AU  - Rakočević, Jelena
AU  - Stojanović, Katarina
AU  - Talevska, Marina
AU  - Trajanovska, Sonja
AU  - Trajanovski, Sasho
AU  - Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, Elizabeta
AU  - Vidaković, Danijela
AU  - Zdraveski, Konstantin
AU  - Živić, Ivana
AU  - Vermaat, Jan E.
PY  - 2020
UR  - https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3674
AB  - Biological assessmentmetrics and water chemistry measurements are used to quantify the link between stressors
and their effects on lake ecosystems, for the Water Framework Directive. However, correlations between metrics
andwater chemistry are often poor. This is seen as majorweaknesses ofWater Framework Directive-relatedmonitoring
and assessment.We analyzed macrophytes, benthic algae, benthic macroinvertebrates, water chemistry
and sediment total phosphorus content in the littoral of six lakes in the Western Balkans and used CORINE land
use data to estimate nutrient enrichment via runoff from the adjacent land. Lakes with a higher estimated phosphorus
runoff fromthe adjacent land did not have higher littoralwater nutrient concentrations, but littoral diatom
assemblages indicated more eutrophic conditions. These lakes also had higher abundances of littoral benthic primaryproducers,
which in turnwere associatedwithlowconcentrations of dissolved nutrients, but only in autumn,
not in spring. This is consistent with primary producers taking up nutrients during the summer growth season. In
lakeswith high abundances of benthic primary producers, it is likely that the littoral vegetation plays a large role in
the transfer of nutrients from the water to the benthos. This process impairs correlations between biological metrics
and water nutrient concentrations. Our results suggest that CORINE land cover may be more useful to characterize
littoral nutrient enrichment than lake water chemistry. Increased benthic primary producer biomasses and
“eutrophic” diatom indicesmay indicate littoral nutrient enrichment even ifwater nutrient concentrations are low
PB  - Elsevier
T2  - Science of the Total Environment
T1  - Littoral eutrophication indicators are more closely related to nearshore land use than to water nutrient concentrations: A critical evaluation of stressor-response relationships
VL  - 748
SP  - 141193
DO  - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141193
ER  - 

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author = "Schneider, Susanne C. and Biberdžić, Vera and Braho, Vjola and Budzakoska Gjoreska, Biljana and Cara, Magdalena and Dana, Zamira and Đurašković, Pavle and Eriksen, Tor Erik and Hjermann, Dag and Imeri, Alma and Jovanović, Katarina and Krizmanić, Jelena and Kupe, Lirika and Loshkoska, Tatjana and Lynn Kemp, Joanna and Marković, Aleksandra and Patceva, Suzana and Rakočević, Jelena and Stojanović, Katarina and Talevska, Marina and Trajanovska, Sonja and Trajanovski, Sasho and Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, Elizabeta and Vidaković, Danijela and Zdraveski, Konstantin and Živić, Ivana and Vermaat, Jan E.",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Biological assessmentmetrics and water chemistry measurements are used to quantify the link between stressors
and their effects on lake ecosystems, for the Water Framework Directive. However, correlations between metrics
andwater chemistry are often poor. This is seen as majorweaknesses ofWater Framework Directive-relatedmonitoring
and assessment.We analyzed macrophytes, benthic algae, benthic macroinvertebrates, water chemistry
and sediment total phosphorus content in the littoral of six lakes in the Western Balkans and used CORINE land
use data to estimate nutrient enrichment via runoff from the adjacent land. Lakes with a higher estimated phosphorus
runoff fromthe adjacent land did not have higher littoralwater nutrient concentrations, but littoral diatom
assemblages indicated more eutrophic conditions. These lakes also had higher abundances of littoral benthic primaryproducers,
which in turnwere associatedwithlowconcentrations of dissolved nutrients, but only in autumn,
not in spring. This is consistent with primary producers taking up nutrients during the summer growth season. In
lakeswith high abundances of benthic primary producers, it is likely that the littoral vegetation plays a large role in
the transfer of nutrients from the water to the benthos. This process impairs correlations between biological metrics
and water nutrient concentrations. Our results suggest that CORINE land cover may be more useful to characterize
littoral nutrient enrichment than lake water chemistry. Increased benthic primary producer biomasses and
“eutrophic” diatom indicesmay indicate littoral nutrient enrichment even ifwater nutrient concentrations are low",
publisher = "Elsevier",
journal = "Science of the Total Environment",
title = "Littoral eutrophication indicators are more closely related to nearshore land use than to water nutrient concentrations: A critical evaluation of stressor-response relationships",
volume = "748",
pages = "141193",
doi = "10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141193"
}

Schneider, S. C., Biberdžić, V., Braho, V., Budzakoska Gjoreska, B., Cara, M., Dana, Z., Đurašković, P., Eriksen, T. E., Hjermann, D., Imeri, A., Jovanović, K., Krizmanić, J., Kupe, L., Loshkoska, T., Lynn Kemp, J., Marković, A., Patceva, S., Rakočević, J., Stojanović, K., Talevska, M., Trajanovska, S., Trajanovski, S., Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, E., Vidaković, D., Zdraveski, K., Živić, I.,& Vermaat, J. E.. (2020). Littoral eutrophication indicators are more closely related to nearshore land use than to water nutrient concentrations: A critical evaluation of stressor-response relationships. in Science of the Total Environment
Elsevier., 748, 141193.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141193

Schneider SC, Biberdžić V, Braho V, Budzakoska Gjoreska B, Cara M, Dana Z, Đurašković P, Eriksen TE, Hjermann D, Imeri A, Jovanović K, Krizmanić J, Kupe L, Loshkoska T, Lynn Kemp J, Marković A, Patceva S, Rakočević J, Stojanović K, Talevska M, Trajanovska S, Trajanovski S, Veljanoska-Sarafiloska E, Vidaković D, Zdraveski K, Živić I, Vermaat JE. Littoral eutrophication indicators are more closely related to nearshore land use than to water nutrient concentrations: A critical evaluation of stressor-response relationships. in Science of the Total Environment. 2020;748:141193.
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141193 .

Schneider, Susanne C., Biberdžić, Vera, Braho, Vjola, Budzakoska Gjoreska, Biljana, Cara, Magdalena, Dana, Zamira, Đurašković, Pavle, Eriksen, Tor Erik, Hjermann, Dag, Imeri, Alma, Jovanović, Katarina, Krizmanić, Jelena, Kupe, Lirika, Loshkoska, Tatjana, Lynn Kemp, Joanna, Marković, Aleksandra, Patceva, Suzana, Rakočević, Jelena, Stojanović, Katarina, Talevska, Marina, Trajanovska, Sonja, Trajanovski, Sasho, Veljanoska-Sarafiloska, Elizabeta, Vidaković, Danijela, Zdraveski, Konstantin, Živić, Ivana, Vermaat, Jan E., "Littoral eutrophication indicators are more closely related to nearshore land use than to water nutrient concentrations: A critical evaluation of stressor-response relationships" in Science of the Total Environment, 748 (2020):141193,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141193 . .