A provisional fish index of biotic integrity for assessing Ouachita Mountains streams in Arkansas, U.S.A

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 91, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 27-57

  Dauwalter, Daniel C ^a   Jackson, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Fish assemblages; IBI; Land use; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

MULTIMETRIC INDEXES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

FISH; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LAND USE; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC FAUNA; BASS; BENTHIC FAUNA; CALCULATION; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; LAND USE; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ARKANSAS; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; LINEAR MODELS; REFERENCE VALUES; WATER POLLUTANTS;

NORTH AMERICA; OUACHITA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CATFISH; CYPRINIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; MICROPTERUS;

EID: 0942266371     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EMAS.0000009229.84959.79     Document Type: Review

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