Development and validation of a macroinvertebrate index of biotic integrity (IBI) for assessing urban impacts to Northern California freshwater wetlands

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3653-3674

  Lunde, Kevin B ^a   Resh, Vincent H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Biomonitoring; IBI; Lentic; Pond; Stock pond

Indexed keywords

BIOASSESSMENT; BIOMONITORING; IBI; LENTIC; POND; STOCK POND;

FLOOD CONTROL; LAKES; WATER;

WETLANDS;

FRESH WATER; STORM WATER;

BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION; WETLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANNELID; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BULLFROG; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA; COLEOPTERA; COPEPOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPHEMEROPTERA; GASTROPOD; HABITAT QUALITY; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; ODONATA; PHYSA; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA DRAYTONII; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TANYPODINAE; TARICHA TOROSA; TRICHOPTERA; TUBIFICIDAE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WETLAND; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER POLLUTANT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; ODONATA; TRICHOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; WATER POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84863752572     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2214-4     Document Type: Article

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