Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales: Proceedings of the Third Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Albany, NY, U.S.A., 8–11 April, 1997

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Environmental Monitoring and Research Initiative: A Priority Activity for the Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources....Pages 3-14
Environmental Data in Decision Making in EPA Regional Offices....Pages 15-21
Development and Validation of Ecological Indicators: An ORD Approach....Pages 23-28
A Zooplankton-N:P-Ratio Indicator for Lakes....Pages 29-51
Implications of Seasonal and Regional Abundance Patterns of Daphnia on Surface Water Monitoring and Assessment....Pages 53-60
The Role of Biological Indicators in a State Water Quality Management Process....Pages 61-88
Maryland Biological Stream Survey: Development of a Fish Index of Biotic Integrity....Pages 89-106
Diatom Indicators of Stream and Wetland Stressors in a Risk Management Framework....Pages 107-118
The Occurrence and Impact of Sedimentation in Central Pennsylvania Wetlands....Pages 119-130
Towards a Regional Index of Biological Integrity: The Example of Forested Riparian Ecosystems....Pages 131-143
A Bird Community Index of Biotic Integrity for the Mid-Atlantic Highlands....Pages 145-156
Acid Runoff Caused Fish Loss as an Early Warning of Forest Decline....Pages 157-162
Forest Integrity at Anthropogenic Edges: Air Pollution Disrupts Bioindicators....Pages 163-169
Common Patterns of Ecosystem Breakdown under Stress....Pages 171-178
Vegetation, Soil, and Animal Indicators of Rangeland Health....Pages 179-200
Monitoring Changes in Stressed Ecosystems Using Spatial Patterns of Ant Communities....Pages 201-210
Parasites of Fish as Indicators of Environmental Stress....Pages 211-232
Relating Benthic Infaunal Community Structure to Environmental Variables in Estuaries Using Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling and Similarity Analysis....Pages 233-246
Seed Clam Growth: An Alternative Sediment Bioassay Developed During Emap in the Carolinian Province....Pages 247-257
Benthic Biological Processes and E H as a Basis for a Benthic Index....Pages 259-268
State of the Estuaries in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States....Pages 269-284
A Framework for a Delaware Inland Bays Environmental Classification....Pages 285-298
Maryland Biological Stream Survey: A State Agency Program to Assess the Impact of Anthropogenic Stresses on Stream Habitat Quality and Biota....Pages 299-316
Assessment of the Condition of Agricultural Lands in Five Mid-Atlantic States....Pages 317-324
An Interactive, Spatial Inventory of Environmental Data in the Mid-Atlantic Region....Pages 325-329
Sediment Quality of Estuaries in the Southeastern U.S.....Pages 331-343
Evaluation of R-EMAP Techniques for the Measurement of Ecological Integrity of Streams in Washington State’s Coast Range Ecoregion....Pages 345-355
Site Access and Sample Frame Issues for R-EMAP Central Valley, California, Stream Assessment....Pages 357-367
Linking Monitoring and Effects Research: EMAP’s Intensive Site Network Program....Pages 369-380
Determining the Causes of Benthic Condition....Pages 381-397
A Regional Analysis of Lake Acidification Trends for the Northeastern U.S., 1982-1994....Pages 399-413
Regional Land Cover Characterization Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data and Ancillary Data Sources....Pages 415-428
Managing Scientific Data: The EMAP Approach....Pages 429-440
Exploring Environmental Data in a Highly Immersive Virtual Reality Environment....Pages 441-450
Prototyping a Vision for Inter-Agency Terrestrial Inventory and Monitoring: A Statistical Perspective....Pages 451-463
Genetic Patterns as a Tool for Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Impacts: The Example of Genetic Ecotoxicology....Pages 465-479
Preliminary Studies on the Population Genetics of the Central Stoneroller ( Campostoma anomalum ) from the Great Miami River Basin, Ohio....Pages 481-495
Genetic Impact of Low-Dose Radiation on Human and Non-Human Biota in Chernobyl, Ukraine....Pages 497-506
Human Carrying Capacity as an Indicator of Regional Sustainability....Pages 507-509
The Ecological Footprint: An Indicator of Progress toward Regional Sustainability....Pages 511-529
Emergy Analysis of Human Carrying Capacity and Regional Sustainability: An Example Using the State of Maine....Pages 531-569
Resource Use Rates and Efficiency as Indicators of Regional Sustainability: An Examination of Five Countries....Pages 571-593
Canada’s Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network: Where we are at and where we are going....Pages 595-603