Assessing the sustainability and biological integrity of water resources using fish communities

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Reviewers......Page 16
Table of Contents......Page 18
Foreword......Page 4
Section I: Perspectives......Page 22
 Chapter 1: Introduction: Biological Integrity and Use of Ecological Health Concepts for Application to Water Resource Characterization......Page 24
 Chapter 2: Using Fish Assemblages in a State Biological Assessment and Criteria Program: Essential Concepts and Considerations......Page 38
 Chapter 3: Collaboration, Compromise, and Conflict: How to Form Partnerships in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring......Page 78
 Chapter 4: Historical Biogeography, Ecology, and Fish Distributions: Conceptual Issues for Establishing IBI Criteria......Page 86
 Chapter 5: Applications of IBI Concepts and Metrics to Waters Outside the United States and Canada......Page 100
Section II: Guild and Metrics Determination......Page 116
 Chapter 6: Assessment of Baton’s Reproductive Guilds with Application to Midwestern North American Freshwater Fishes......Page 118
 Chapter 7: Toward a United Definition of Guild Structure for Feeding Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes......Page 144
 Chapter 8: Influence of the Family Catostomidae on the Metrics Developed for a Great Rivers Index of Biotic Integrity......Page 224
 Chapter 9: The Use of External Deformities, Erosion, Lesions, and Ihmors (DELT Anomalies) in Fish Assemblages for Characterizing Aquatic Resources: A Case Study of Seven Ohio Streams......Page 246
Section III: Regional Applications of the IBI......Page 268
 Chapter 10: Effects of Drainage Basin Size and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Relations Between Stream Size and IBI Metrics in Virginia......Page 270
 Chapter 11: Characteristics of Fish Assemblages and Environmental Conditions in Streams of the Upper Snake River Basin, in Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming......Page 294
 Chapter 12: Classification of Freshwater Fish Species of the Northeastern United States for Use in the Development of Indices of Biological Integrity, with Regional Applications......Page 322
 Chapter 13: Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity for the Species Depauperate Lake Agassiz Plain Eco Region, North Dakota and Minnesota......Page 360
 Chapter 14: Applications of Indices of Biotic Integrity to California Streams and Watersheds......Page 388
Section IV: Application to Freshwater Resource Types Other than Wadeable Warmwater Streams......Page 402
 Chapter 15: Development and Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Coldwater Streams of the Upper Midwestern United States......Page 404
 Chapter 16: Biological Monitoring and An Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Erie’s Nearshore Waters......Page 438
 Chapter 17: Considerations for Characterizing Midwestern Large River Habitats......Page 484
 Chapter 18: Applying an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Great River Fish Communities: Considerations in Sampling and Interpretation......Page 496
 Chapter 19: Tail water Fish Index (TFI) Development for the Tennessee River Tributary Tailwaters......Page 528
 Chapter 20: Reservoir Fishery Assessment Index Development: A Tool for Assessing Ecological Health in Tennessee Valley Authority Impoundments......Page 544
 Chapter 21: Toward the Development of An Index of Biotic Integrity for Inland Lakes in Wisconsin......Page 562
 Chapter 22: Development of IBI Metrics for Lakes in Southern New England......Page 584
Section V: Data Validation......Page 604
 Chapter 23: Relations Between Fish Metrics and Measures of Anthropogenic Disturbance in Three IBI Regions in Virginia......Page 606
 Chapter 24: Methods for Deriving Maximum Species Richness Lines and Other Threshold Relationships in Biological Field Data......Page 632
 Chapter 25: Adjustments to the Index of Biotic Integrity: A Summary of Ohio Experiences and Some Suggested Modifications......Page 646
 Chapter 26: Integrating Assessments of Fish and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages and Physical Habitat Conditions in Pennsylvania......Page 660
Index......Page 674