Introduction:
Urban areas contribute pollutants that wash off of areas that are not native to the area (Sanders, et. Al. 2001). These pollutants caused by urban areas contribute the deterioration of water quality in stream and runs which make up a significant part of the bodies of water in the state of Ohio. Water quality is crucial for the fish and macroinvertebrates species that can sustain a community in that specific body of water, any change in this quality can change the entire diversity and richness of the body of water and have implications further down the road whether it be positive or negative. I believe there is a difference in the fish communities on the east and west end of Dug Run that was locate on the campus of the University …show more content…
[Figure 1] shows the results of the experiments and that we caught 12 species of fish and [Table 1] one shows us the final results of our diversity test that showed we would find a higher diversity of fish on the east side of dug run compared to the west side of dug run. Other aspects of this experiment can help determine if there really is a difference in the fish communities.
The pH balance can help determine the acidity or base of the water we are studying (Mesner et. Al. 2010). The scale starts at 0 and ends at 14, with anything below seven as acidic, and anything above 7 as basic. The water we collected on the west end of Dug Run had a pH balance of 8.05, and the east end of Dug Run having a pH balance of 8. For fish in the area we analyzed these were suitable conditions due to the number of specimens abundant in Dug Run. To figure out if the difference is among certain species we have to dive in deeper and look at a specific species found in Dug …show more content…
This specific species of fish tend to live in intermediate waters, but prefer to live in waters with a higher quality of water (Gatz et. Al 1993). These fish were abundant in the west end of Dug run compared to the east end of Dug Run shows a preference in a habitat that has a higher water quality compared to the lower water quality on the east side that we found doing a an experiment involving the amount of sensitive organisms found in the samples of the respective ends of the run. This final bit of information can help us finalize the results of our experiment and finalize if the hypothesis was correct or incorrect.
After the final analysis of the data we can see that there is a difference in the fish community on the east and west side of dug run on the campus of the University of Northwestern Ohio based off of water quality but not species diversity. The conditions of the water did play a role determining which species could thrive in their respective area of the run and the fish diversity of Dug Run was not drastic enough to say that less species richness took place, but rather the pollution tolerance of the fish played a bigger role in where the fish wanted to
Urban areas contribute pollutants that wash off of areas that are not native to the area (Sanders, et. Al. 2001). These pollutants caused by urban areas contribute the deterioration of water quality in stream and runs which make up a significant part of the bodies of water in the state of Ohio. Water quality is crucial for the fish and macroinvertebrates species that can sustain a community in that specific body of water, any change in this quality can change the entire diversity and richness of the body of water and have implications further down the road whether it be positive or negative. I believe there is a difference in the fish communities on the east and west end of Dug Run that was locate on the campus of the University …show more content…
[Figure 1] shows the results of the experiments and that we caught 12 species of fish and [Table 1] one shows us the final results of our diversity test that showed we would find a higher diversity of fish on the east side of dug run compared to the west side of dug run. Other aspects of this experiment can help determine if there really is a difference in the fish communities.
The pH balance can help determine the acidity or base of the water we are studying (Mesner et. Al. 2010). The scale starts at 0 and ends at 14, with anything below seven as acidic, and anything above 7 as basic. The water we collected on the west end of Dug Run had a pH balance of 8.05, and the east end of Dug Run having a pH balance of 8. For fish in the area we analyzed these were suitable conditions due to the number of specimens abundant in Dug Run. To figure out if the difference is among certain species we have to dive in deeper and look at a specific species found in Dug …show more content…
This specific species of fish tend to live in intermediate waters, but prefer to live in waters with a higher quality of water (Gatz et. Al 1993). These fish were abundant in the west end of Dug run compared to the east end of Dug Run shows a preference in a habitat that has a higher water quality compared to the lower water quality on the east side that we found doing a an experiment involving the amount of sensitive organisms found in the samples of the respective ends of the run. This final bit of information can help us finalize the results of our experiment and finalize if the hypothesis was correct or incorrect.
After the final analysis of the data we can see that there is a difference in the fish community on the east and west side of dug run on the campus of the University of Northwestern Ohio based off of water quality but not species diversity. The conditions of the water did play a role determining which species could thrive in their respective area of the run and the fish diversity of Dug Run was not drastic enough to say that less species richness took place, but rather the pollution tolerance of the fish played a bigger role in where the fish wanted to