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Biological and chemical data from chloride bioassays with native wetland species in natural and reconstituted Prairie Pothole waters

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2015-04-15
End Date
2018-06-01

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Puglis, H.J., Kunz, B.K., Harper, D.D., and Farag, A.M., 2022, Biological and chemical data from chloride bioassays with native wetland species in natural and reconstituted Prairie Pothole waters: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BQ6YRZ.

Summary

Biological endpoints for three focal test species [Daphnia magna (mortality), Psuedacris maculata (mortality, growth, and development), and Lemna gibba (growth)] in response to exposure to reconstituted or field-collected water under laboratory conditions. Field-collected waters were collected from wetlands within the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of the United States. Reconstituted water was mixed to mimic some chemistry of surface water from brine contaminated PPR wetlands. Also included are water quality and chemical concentration data from all assays.

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Point of Contact :
Holly J Puglis
Originator :
Holly J Puglis, Bethany K Kunz, David Harper, Aida M Farag
Metadata Contact :
CERC Data Managers
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center

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Biological_chemical_data_chloride_bioassays.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		71.07 KB application/fgdc+xml
DaphniaTadpoleMortality.txt 17.41 KB text/plain
DuckweedFrondProduction.txt 2.9 KB text/plain
TadpoleGrowthDevelopment.txt 7.75 KB text/plain
TreatmentDescription.txt 4.81 KB text/plain
WaterChemistry.txt 64.41 KB text/plain

Purpose

Oil and gas extraction in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of the northern United States has resulted in elevated chloride concentrations in ground and surface water due to widespread contamination with highly saline produced water, or brine. The toxicity of chloride is poorly understood in the high hardness waters characteristic of the region. We evaluated the toxicity of chloride to two endemic species, Daphnia magna and Lemna gibba (duckweed), exposed in very high hardness field-collected waters (~3,000 milligrams per liter as CaCO3) and high hardness reconstituted waters (372 milligrams per liter as CaCO3) intended to mimic PPR background waters. We also investigated the role of chloride in the toxicity of water reconstituted to mimic legacy brine-contaminated wetlands to two distinct populations of the native Pseudacris maculata (Boreal Chorus Frog). These data will be used to help understand the potential effects of brine contamination from legacy waste disposal practices on native wetland species in the PPR.

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