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DEVELOPMENT OF A FISH INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY TO ASSESS THE CONDITION OF WEST VIRGINIA STREAMS: TECHNICAL SUPPORT DOCUMENT
Citation:
WALTERS, DAVID M. DEVELOPMENT OF A FISH INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY TO ASSESS THE CONDITION OF WEST VIRGINIA STREAMS: TECHNICAL SUPPORT DOCUMENT. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-06/010 (NTIS PB2006-114608), 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
The goal of this research is to develop methods and indicators that are useful for evaluating the condition of aquatic communities, for assessing the restoration of aquatic communities in response to mitigation and best management practices, and for determining the exposure of aquatic communities to different classes of stressors (i.e., pesticides, sedimentation, habitat alteration).
Description:
This report documents the development of a fish index of biotic integrity (IBI) for wadeable streams in West Virginia and to determine the applicability of the IBI in streams with different thermal regimes. The IBI will be developed using fish data collected at EMAP sites from 1993 - 1998. RARE sites are used as an independent data set to test the robustness of the IBI across stream temperature regimes (i.e., cold, cool, and warm water streams).