Aquatic Insects as Indicator in Water Quality Assessment of Recreational Rivers

Suhaila Ab Hamid, Norshamiera Normi

2018

Abstract

In order to attain the certainty that aquatic insects interact with water changes caused by human recreational activities, a sampling was conducted in Kedah and Penang, northern state of peninsular Malaysia. Sampling of aquatic insects and water parameters measurement were carried out on three periods of time; before school holiday, during school holiday and after school holiday at eight recreational rivers. Before school holiday, the abundance of aquatic insects dominated by order Ephemeroptera, while during school holiday, it was dominated by order Diptera, whereas order Trichoptera dominated the abundance of aquatic insect after school holiday season. The abundance of aquatic insect was the greatest during school holiday and it was dominated by the order Diptera. During school holiday, the season offered the least suitable habitat for aquatic insects especially the intolerant group such as Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera (EPT). All biological indices described the river in all seasons as clean except for FBI which described the water quality during school holiday season as fair.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hamid S. and Normi N. (2018). Aquatic Insects as Indicator in Water Quality Assessment of Recreational Rivers. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST, ISBN 978-989-758-496-1, pages 432-436. DOI: 10.5220/0010044304320436

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icest18,
author={Suhaila Ab Hamid and Norshamiera Normi},
title={Aquatic Insects as Indicator in Water Quality Assessment of Recreational Rivers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,},
year={2018},
pages={432-436},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010044304320436},
isbn={978-989-758-496-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,
TI - Aquatic Insects as Indicator in Water Quality Assessment of Recreational Rivers
SN - 978-989-758-496-1
AU - Hamid S.
AU - Normi N.
PY - 2018
SP - 432
EP - 436
DO - 10.5220/0010044304320436