Download or read book Habitat Quality Indicators and Indices Based on Invertebrate Communities written by and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Development of Invertebrate Community Indexes of Stream Quality for the Islands of Maui and Oahu Hawai i written by U.S. Department of the Interior and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009–10 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected physical habitat information and benthic macroinvertebrates at 40 wadeable sites on 25 perennial streams on the Island of Maui, Hawaiÿi, to evaluate the relations between the macroin-vertebrate assemblages and environmental characteristics and to develop a multimetric invertebrate community index (ICI) that could be used as an indicator of stream quality. The macroinver-tebrate community data were used to identify metrics that could best differentiate among sites according to disturbance gradients such as embeddedness, percent fines (silt and sand areal cover-age), or percent agricultural land in the contributing basin area. Environmental assessments were conducted using land-use/land-cover data and reach-level physical habitat data.
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Download or read book Water Quality Indices written by Tasneem Abbasi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1: Water Quality Indices Based Predominantly on Physico-chemical characteristics -- Part 2: Water Quality Indices Based on Bioassessment -- Part 3: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.
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