Development and use of biological indicators to monitor the status and trends of aquatic
ecosystems such as streams and rivers (Karr 1981, 1991; Wichert 1995; Wichert and …

Habitat evaluation of wadeable streams based on accepted protocols provides a rapid and
widely used adjunct to biological assessment. However, little effort has been devoted to …

Accurate and robust approaches for quantifying regional reference conditions are critical to
the management and restoration of freshwater resources. We considered approaches …

Many warmwater streams in the midwestern United States have been negatively influenced
by human land-use practices. From Jun. through Aug. 2002 and 2003, tributaries (n= 50) of …

We used species traits to examine the variation in fish assemblages for 21 streams in the
Northern Lakes and Forests Ecoregion along a gradient of habitat disturbance. Fish species …

The environmental setting (eg, climate, topography, geology) and land use affect stream
physical characteristics singly and cumulatively. At broad geographic scales, we determined …

The recent introduction of large geospatial databases and virtual measurement devices for
streams of the United States have the potential to greatly improve stream classification …

Managers of aquatic resources benefit from indices of habitat quality that are reproducible
and easy to measure, demonstrate a link between habitat quality and biota health, and differ …

AIM: This study evaluated the use of oligochaetes at different levels of taxonomic resolution
as environmental indicators in Argentine lowland streams affected by different land uses …

This study evaluated biological integrity expectations of fish assemblages in wadeable
streams for the Alabama portion of the Choctawhatchee River watershed using a multimetric …