Ecological integrity assessment as a metric of biodiversity: are we measuring what we say we are?

ED Brown, BK Williams - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2016 - Springer
As the recognition of the importance of biological diversity in biological conservation grows,
an ongoing challenge is to develop metrics that can be used for effective conservation and …

The future of fish‐based ecological assessment of European rivers: from traditional EU Water Framework Directive compliant methods to eDNA metabarcoding‐based …

D Pont, A Valentini, M Rocle, A Maire… - Journal of fish …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the present EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) compliant fish‐based assessment
methods of European rivers are multi‐metric indices computed from traditional electrofishing …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating four fish-based indices of biotic integrity for similar measures of ecological condition

MK Jarvie, DA Jackson - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
While the use and development of biological indices for management and planning
purposes has increased in popularity over the past few decades, many of their properties …

Site length for biological assessment of boatable rivers

JE Flotemersch, JB Stribling… - River Research and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing international interest by water resource management agencies
worldwide in develo** the capacity for quantitative bioassessments of boatable rivers …

Patterns in catch per unit effort of native prey fish and alien piscivorous fish in 7 Pacific Northwest USA rivers

RM Hughes, AT Herlihy - Fisheries, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Nonnative or alien invasive species are commonly accorded threats to native biological
assemblages; however, it is difficult to separate the effects of aliens from other covarying …

Sampling sufficiency for fish assemblage surveys of tropical Atlantic forest streams, Southeastern Brazil

B Freitas Terra, RM Hughes, FG Araújo - Fisheries, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Knowledge of the adequacy of field sampling protocols is critical for detecting species and
assessing biological conditions. Several studies have been conducted to determine the …

Implications of community concordance for assessing stream integrity at three nested spatial scales in Minnesota, USA

CL Dolph, DD Huff, CJ Chizinski… - Freshwater …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fish and invertebrate assemblage data collected from 670 stream sites in Minnesota (USA)
were used to calculate concordance across three nested spatial scales (statewide …

Effects of fixed-count size on macroinvertebrate richness, site separation, and bioassessment of Chinese monsoonal streams

K Chen, RM Hughes, B Wang - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Subsampling that counts and identifies a random subset of individuals from field samples is
widespread yet controversial. We evaluated the effects of fixed-count size on …

Systematic underestimation resulting from measurement error in score-based ecological indices

EJ Gorrod, M Bedward, DA Keith, MV Ellis - Biological conservation, 2013 - Elsevier
Many ecological indices convert raw estimates of a variable into a score, and combine
scores for multiple variables into a total score. Biodiversity valuation indices, for example …

High spatial variability biases the space-for-time approach in environmental monitoring

H Kappes, A Sundermann, P Haase - Ecological Indicators, 2010 - Elsevier
The space-for-time approach is widely used in fundamental and applied ecology but
assemblages from some habitats are highly variable. For example, streams may show …