Fitzgerald, Judith M., and Robert E. Loeb. 2008 “Historical Ecology of Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, New York.” The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135, no. 2 (2008): 281-93. doi:10.3159/07-ra-046.1.

This article was published in The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society and it details the history of the ecology of Inwood Hill Park. This will be beneficial in understanding how Inwood Hill Park got to be the way that it is. It provides a detailed history of the plant life and different species found in the park. This could help gives us a background of what the park was like and we can compare the BioBlitz results to its previous history. We will be able to get a better understanding of the ecology of the park and hopefully allow us to identify recent changes in the environment.

 

Dittman, Jason A., and Charles T. Driscoll. 2009 “Factors Influencing Changes in Mercury Concentrations in Lake Water and Yellow Perch (Perca Flavescens) in Adirondack Lakes.” Biogeochemistry 93, no. 3 (2009): 179-96. doi:10.1007/s10533-009-9289-9.

Although our focus is on Inwood Hill Park, I wanted to compare the data we found to other areas in New York. This article detailed the relationship between the biodiversity of the fish and mercury levels in lakes surrounding the Adirondack Mountains. It also mentions pH levels in the water and the fish body condition. We hope that this data will contribute to our understanding of our findings at Inwood Hill Park.

 

Saha, Priti, and Biswajit Paul. 2018 “Suitability Assessment of Surface Water Quality with Reference to Drinking, Irrigation and Fish Culture: A Human Health Risk Perspective.” Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 101, no. 2 (2018): 262-71. doi:10.1007/s00128-018-2389-2.

This article was published in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination Toxicology earlier this year and it examined some of the same factors as we were in an industrial city in India. The researchers conducted a multi-purpose Water Quality Index (WQI) in order to “assess the sustainability of surface water for drinking, fish culture, as well as irrigation.” From these studies it was determined that some potent toxic pollutants such as Co, F, Mn, and NO3. These were identified to cause health hazards and also potentially cause damage to the ecosystem. According to the study, “the pollutants were attributed to rock-weathering, industries, agriculture and municipal sources.” Although Inwood Hill Park isn’t considered to be part of an industrial city, it is interesting to compare the results and see how certain factors connect. Our group may be able to use some of this information as reference when analyzing the water quality found at Inwood.

 

Kisku, Sujit, Deep Sankar Chini, Manojit Bhattacharya, Avijit Kar, Srikanta Parua, Basanta

Kumar Das, and Bidhan Chandra Patra. “A Cross-sectional Study on Water Quality in

Relation to Fish Diversity of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India through

Geoinformatics Approaches.” The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research43, no. 4 (2017):

283-89. doi:10.1016/j.ejar.2017.12.001

This article was published in the Egyption Journal of Aquatic Research. The authors of the article examined a very similar question to the one we plan on asking about Inwood Hill Park. Their study was on the relationship between water quality and fish diversity in a certain area of India. They used water quality parameters like pH, Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen and salinity to compare to the natural fish diversity in the areas they were examining. We will be examining the water quality parameters of Inwood Hill Park and compare that to the fish diversity. We will be using the Bioblitz data to gather our information we need for our experiment.

 

Wabnitz, Colette C. C., Vicky W. Y. Lam, Gabriel Reygondeau, Lydia C. L. Teh, Dalal

Al-Abdulrazzak, Myriam Khalfallah, Daniel Pauly, Maria L. Deng Palomares, Dirk

Zeller, and William W. L. Cheung. “Climate Change Impacts on Marine Biodiversity,

Fisheries and Society in the Arabian Gulf.” Plos One13, no. 5 (2018).

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194537.

This article was published in the Public Library of Science by a group of researchers working in the field of  marine biodiversity. This article is about the effects of climate change on marine Biodiversity, specifically the Arabian Gulf. The article explains how climate change has created significant changes in the environment including sea level rising, changes in temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen. Their study provides an evaluation of all of these environmental changes on the biodiversity of marine biology in the Arabian Gulf. Our group can use their study to help design our experiment and possibly compare result we have to the results of this article. Our research will be similar in the type of date but much smaller in scale.

 

Parker, Jerrod, Yong Cao, Greg G. Sass, and John Epifanio. “Large River Fish Functional

Diversity Responses to Improved Water Quality over a 28 year Period.” Ecological

Indicators88 (2018): 322-31. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.01.035.

This article is about a long term study that relates to the topic of our Bioblitz research experiment. This study was done after the passing of environment protection regulation from the early 1980’s  that included the improvement of wastewater treatment. They used this as an opportunity to study the impact of the improvement of water quality on functional diversity of fish. Functional diversity, or FD, is a multi factor way of determining species’ adaptations to certain environmental factors. Their study was done at different locations along the illinois river during its recovery period from 1983 to 2010. The article describes the various methods used to determine the species’ diversity in a given system. We will most likely use this source to help us design our experiment.

 

Gordon, T. A. C. et al. 2018. “Fishes in a Changing World: Learning From the Past to Promote Sustainability of Fish Populations.” Journal of Fish Biology, 92 (3), pp. 804-827. doi: 10.1111/jfb.13546.

This paper explores the threats that fish populations face today and how humans contribute to these issues both locally and globally. It explains different ways people can promote fish sustainability and build a better future for the aquatic ecosystem. We can use this information for our conclusion and applications for our study. It provides critical evidence to support our reason for choosing this issue and how our research can be applied in real life to promote sustainability in an urban ecology.

 

Hiddink, J. G. et al. 2008. “Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems.” Fisheries Research, 90 (1-3), pp. 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.11.025.

This article outlines the importance of fish biodiversity. It provides information on how fish diversity affects the environment and humans. In addition, it suggests methods to better manage fish diversity through effective government and civilian work. This information can be used in our project to establish a connection between fish populations and the human population. It will answer the question of how humans and fish are affected by each other, and why it’s important we study and maintain fish biodiversity, one of these ways being water quality testing.