Use of fish functional traits to associate in-stream suspended sediment transport metrics with biological impairment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 179, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 347-369

  Schwartz, John S ^a   Simon, Andrew ^b   Klimetz, Lauren ^a,b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological impairment; Channel stability; Fish autecology; Great Plains prairie streams; Sediment TMDL; Siltation; Stressor analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL IMPAIRMENTS; CHANNEL STABILITY; PRAIRIE STREAMS; SILTATION; STRESSOR ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; RATING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; WATER QUALITY;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FISH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPAWNING; SPECIES HABITAT; SUSPENSION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960383865     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1741-8     Document Type: Article

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