The quality of our nation's waters--ecological health in the nation's streams, 1993-2005
By: by Daren M. Carlisle, Michael R. Meador, Terry M. Short, Cathy M. Tate, Martin E. Gurtz, Wade L. Bryant, James A. Falcone, and Michael D. Woodside, National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Contributors: Meador, Michael Rogers, 1958-; Short, Terry M.; National Water-Quality Assessment Program (U.S.); Geological Survey (U.S.)
Series: Circular / U.S. Geological Survey -- 1391
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Reston, Virginia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781411336445
Subjects: Stream health; Stream ecology; Water quality; Water quality biological assessment; Environmental impact analysis; Land use; Rivers; Regulation; Environmental aspects; Water; Pollution; Environmental conditions
Other titles: Quality of our nation's waters; Ecological health in the nation's streams, 1993/2005
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Overview of findings and implications; title: Highlights of major findings and implications; title: Biological condition and land use; title: Factors associated with stream health; title: Streamflow modification; title: Elevated nutrients; title: Elevated salinity; title: Contaminant toxicity in stream water and sediments; title: Priorities for filling information gaps for the biological health of streams; title: 2. Stream ecology primer; title: Biological communities and water quality; title: Algae; title: Macroinvertebrates; title: Fish; title: Environmental factors that influence stream biological communities; title: Natural river and altered landscape; title: Environmental factors influenced by agriculture and urban land use; title: Dynamics of a natural stream ecosystem; title: Dynamics of an agricultural ecosystem; title: Dynamics of an urban stream ecosystem; title: 3. Approach to assessing biological condition; title: Targeted sampling across the nation's diverse land uses and natural settings; title: Features of NAWQA's biological assessment; title: NAWQA's biological assessment in a national context; title: Chemical and physical measurement and assessment; title: Biological sampling; title: Assessing biological condition : the reference concept; title: Assessing biological condition : general approach; title: 4. National assessments of physical and chemical factors that influence stream health; title: Land and water management across the nation; title: Streamflow modification; title: Streamflow modification and land use; title: Stream temperature; title: Stream riparian zones; title: Stream-water salinity; title: Nutrients in stream water; title: Dissolved pesticides in stream water; title: Pesticides and other organic contaminants in stream sediments; title: Estimating the potential toxicity of streambed-sediment contaminants; title: 5. Biological-condition assessment; title: Integrated assessments of algal, macroinvertebrate, and fish communities; title: Assessments of algal, macroinvertebrate, and fish communities; title: Introduced fish species : occurrence and relations to biological condition; title: Introduced macroinvertebrate species : occurrence and relations to biological condition; title: 6. Factors associated with diminished biological condition; title: Factors associated with diminished biological condition : summary; title: Streamflow modification; title: Cache La Poudre River, Colorado; title: Land development within stream riparian zones; title: Bachman Run and Muddy Creek, Pennsylvania; title: Shingle Creek, Minnesota; title: Elevated salinity; title: Elevated nutrients; title: Pesticides in stream water; title: Zollner Creek, Oregon; title: Contaminants in stream sediments; title: Glossary.