Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia

Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia

Recently the interest of public and stakeholders were focus on the environmental status of Kuching Wetland National Park (KWNP) due to the increase of urbanization processes and anthropogenic activities. A field sampling which covered 10 stations was conducted at the outer and inner boundary of KWNP...

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Main Authors: Cheng, Ann Chen, Chen, Lin Soo, Shabdin Mohd. Long, Lee Nyanti
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014
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spelling ukm-78112016-12-14T06:45:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7811/ Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia Cheng, Ann Chen Chen, Lin Soo Shabdin Mohd. Long, Lee Nyanti, Recently the interest of public and stakeholders were focus on the environmental status of Kuching Wetland National Park (KWNP) due to the increase of urbanization processes and anthropogenic activities. A field sampling which covered 10 stations was conducted at the outer and inner boundary of KWNP in August 2011 during high tide. Physico-chemical water parameters were recorded. Triplicate of near bottom water samples were collected using 2.5 L Van don water sampler (Wildco®) for further analyses of nutrient, chlorophyll a (chl a), biological oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS). The aimed of the study were to assess the water quality of KWNP and to determine the distribution pattern of physico-chemical components and its relationship to the phytoplankton chlorophyll a concentrations in water between the outer and inner part of KWNP. One-way analyses of similarity indicated that all the study sites were significantly different between stations (p-value < 0.05) and boundaries (p-value < 0.05). Water temperature, pH, ammonium nitrogen (NH4–N) and inorganic phosphorous (Inorg–P) were known affecting the abundance of phytoplankton communities. The concentrations of nitrate nitrogen (NO3–N) at the outer and inner boundaries of KWNP were over-ranged as compared to Malaysia marine standards. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7811/1/05_Cheng-Ann.pdf Cheng, Ann Chen and Chen, Lin Soo and Shabdin Mohd. Long, and Lee Nyanti, (2014) Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Sains Malaysiana, 43 (10). pp. 1491-1501. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/
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description Recently the interest of public and stakeholders were focus on the environmental status of Kuching Wetland National Park (KWNP) due to the increase of urbanization processes and anthropogenic activities. A field sampling which covered 10 stations was conducted at the outer and inner boundary of KWNP in August 2011 during high tide. Physico-chemical water parameters were recorded. Triplicate of near bottom water samples were collected using 2.5 L Van don water sampler (Wildco®) for further analyses of nutrient, chlorophyll a (chl a), biological oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS). The aimed of the study were to assess the water quality of KWNP and to determine the distribution pattern of physico-chemical components and its relationship to the phytoplankton chlorophyll a concentrations in water between the outer and inner part of KWNP. One-way analyses of similarity indicated that all the study sites were significantly different between stations (p-value < 0.05) and boundaries (p-value < 0.05). Water temperature, pH, ammonium nitrogen (NH4–N) and inorganic phosphorous (Inorg–P) were known affecting the abundance of phytoplankton communities. The concentrations of nitrate nitrogen (NO3–N) at the outer and inner boundaries of KWNP were over-ranged as compared to Malaysia marine standards.
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author Cheng, Ann Chen
Chen, Lin Soo
Shabdin Mohd. Long,
Lee Nyanti,
spellingShingle Cheng, Ann Chen
Chen, Lin Soo
Shabdin Mohd. Long,
Lee Nyanti,
Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
author_facet Cheng, Ann Chen
Chen, Lin Soo
Shabdin Mohd. Long,
Lee Nyanti,
author_sort Cheng, Ann Chen
title Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_short Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_full Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_fullStr Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia
title_sort assessing the bottom water quality of a ramsar site subjected to anthropogenic disturbances: a case study in kuching wetland national park, sarawak, malaysia
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2014
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7811/
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