The biological assessment of rivers ie, their assessment through use of aquatic
assemblages, integrates the effects of multiple-stressors on these systems over time and is …

Freshwater biota are more comprehensive and direct indicators of biological impacts, and
more meaningful to the public than water quality or physical habitat surrogates. Freshwater …

Water of sufficient quality and quantity is critical to all life. Increasing human population and
growth of technology require human society to devote more and more attention to protection …

The basis for using biological monitoring of fishes to assess environmental degradation is
that the relative health of a fish community is a sensitive indicator of direct and indirect …

A stand-alone working document, Stormwater Effects Handbook: A Toolbox for Watershed
Managers, Scientists, and Engineers assists scientists and regulators in determining when …

Although it is well known that metabolism, feeding, and behaviour of lotic organisms is
influenced by various flow characteristics, hydraulic variables usually are not accurately …

This chapter summarizes present index of biological integrity (IBI) applications outside the
US and Canada, with particular emphasis on the way metrics have been modified while …

We examined the importance of zonation and species additions in explaining longitudinal
changes in the fish assemblage of a Rocky Mountain stream that descends onto the Great …

The United States Clean Water Act (CWA; 1972, and as amended, US Code title 33,
sections 1251–1387) provides the long‐term, national objective to “restore and maintain …

The goal of biological monitoring is to evaluate the effect of human activities on biological
resources. In this study, we linked human activities across landscapes to specific changes in …