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Efecto de la contaminación minera sobre el perifiton del río Guadiamar

Authors: Martín Farfán, Gonzalo; Alcalá, Eva; Plazuelo, Ángel; Burgos, María Dolores; Reyes, Elisabeth; Toja Santillana, Julia;

Efecto de la contaminación minera sobre el perifiton del río Guadiamar

Abstract

This paper shows the effects that pollution by heavy metals has had on the periphyton of the Guadiamar River and is included into a general follow-up of the biota and water quality, which has been taking place since the Aznalcóllar mine tailings spill, in April 1998. The objective is to know which factors have the most importance with regard to community structure, to which point the concentration of metals has come to alter it, and to know whether bioaccumulation of heavy metals occurs in periphyton, whether it has altered the taxonomic composition of the periphyton community. To achieve this, analyses of periphyton samples taken at the river have been compared with those gotten in laboratory experiments, in which algae from non-polluted parts of the river were subjected to different concentrations of heavy metals(similar to those that affected the river), as the only agent able to alter the community. Results indicate that the algae do bioaccumulate heavy metals, and that they affect the community development and composition. However, in the river this response reflects more an adaptation to acidity tolerance, rather than heavy metal pollution (possibly duo to the fact that heavy metal sensitive species can not develop). Therefore, the periphyton community existing at the river differs from the one gotten in the laboratory, because in this case the taxa were selected only in relation to their tolerance to heavy metals.

Este trabajo presenta el efecto que la contaminación por metales pesados ha tenido sobre el perifiton del río Guadiamar y está englobado dentro de un seguimiento general de los organismos y la calidad del agua que se ha estado llevando a cabo desde el accidente de las minas de Aznalcóllar, en abril de 1998. Se pretende discernir qué factores tienen más importancia en la estructuración de la comunidad, hasta qué punto la concentración de metales ha llegado a alterarla y si hay bioacumulación de metales pesados en perifiton. Para ello se han contrastado las observaciones de campo con experimentación en el laboratorio, sometiendo en este caso al perifiton a distintas concentraciones de una mezcla de metales pesados (similares a las que ha sufrido el río), como único factor de alteración. Los resultados indican que las algas bioacumulan metales, que estos afectan al desarrollo y la composición de la comunidad, pero que en el río esta respuesta refleja más una adaptación a tolerar la acidez del agua que a la contaminación por metales pesados (posiblemente porque las especies más sensibles a los metales no se pueden desarrollar). Por tanto, la comunidad resultante en el río es diferente de la que se desarrolló en el laboratorio, ya que en este último sólo se seleccionaron especies en virtud de su mayor o menor tolerancia a la contaminación por metales pesados.

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Spain
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Perifiton, Acidez, Metales pesados

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