Assessing the Sustainability and Biological Integrity of Water Resources Using Fish Communities

Assessing the Sustainability and Biological Integrity of Water Resources Using Fish Communities
Author: Thomas P. Simon
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000141381

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This book examines the application of fish community characteristics to evaluate the sustainability and biological integrity of freshwaters. Topics include perspectives on use of fish communities as environmental indicators in program development, collaboration, and partnership forming; influence of specific taxa on assessment of the IBI; regional applications for areas where the IBI had not previously been developed; and specific applications of the IBI developed for coldwater streams, inland lakes, Great Lakes, reservoirs, and tailwaters.

The Fishes of Illinois

The Fishes of Illinois
Author: Philip Wayne Smith
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780252070846

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Illinois bodies of water are home to a diverse population of fishes. This title includes the twenty-eight families of fishes, identifying each family's common and scientific name and detailing its evolutionary relationships and economic importance.

Biological Response Signatures

Biological Response Signatures
Author: Thomas P. Simon
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2002-07-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1420041452

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The use of environmental assessment procedures within monitoring frameworks demands that there be some relevancy to the decisions that management agencies make using biological criteria. These biological criteria standards are the basis for environmental indicators, which provide a direct measure of environmental quality. Biological Response Signat