The multihabitat approach of USEPA's rapid bioassessment protocols: Benthic macroinvertebrates

Limnetica

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 839-850

  Barbour, Michael T ^a   Stribling, James B ^a   Verdonschot, Piet F M ^b  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AQEM; Benthic macroinvertebrates; Ecological condition; Environmental monitoring; Lowgradient streams; Multihabitat sampling; Precision; Rapid bioassessment; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT TYPE; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STREAM;

EID: 33846488497     PISSN: 02138409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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