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Publications Details for Grant Number R829498

A Biologically Driven National Classification Scheme for U.S. Streams and Rivers

RFA: Development of National Aquatic Ecosystem Classifications and Reference Conditions (2001)

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Book Hughes RM, Wang L, Seelbach PW, eds. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitat and Biological Assemblages (Proceedings of the Symposium on Influences of Landscape on Stream Habitat and Biological Communities Held in Madison, WI, August 25-26, 2004). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2006, 698 pp. R829498 (Final)
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Book Chapter Herlihy AT, Hughes RM, Sifneos JC. Landscape clusters based on fish assemblages in the conterminous USA and their relationship to existing landscape classifications. In: Hughes RM, Wang L, Seelbach PW, eds. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages (Proceedings of the Symposium on Influences of Landscape on Stream Habitat and Biological Communities Held in Madison, WI, August 25-26, 2004). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2006, pp. 87-112. R829498 (2004)
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Book Chapter Hughes RM, Rinne JN, Calamusso B. Historical changes in large river fish assemblages of the Americas: a synthesis. In: Rinne JN, Hughes RM, Calamusso B, eds. Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas (Symposium 45). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2005, pp. 603-612. R829498 (Final)
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Book Chapter Hughes RM, Rinne JN, Calamusso B. Introduction to historical changes in large river fish assemblages of the Americas. In: Rinne JN, Hughes RM, Calamusso B, eds. Historical Changes in Large River Fish Assemblages of the Americas (Symposium 45). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2005, pp. 1-12. R829498 (Final)
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Book Chapter Kaufmann PR, Hughes RM. Geomorphic and anthropogenic influences on fish and amphibians in Pacific Northwest coastal streams. In: Hughes RM, Wang L, Seelbach PW, eds. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages (Proceedings of the Symposium on Influences of Landscape on Stream Habitat and Biological Communities Held in Madison, WI, August 25-26, 2004). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2006, pp. 429-455. R829498 (2004)
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Book Chapter Wang L, Seelbach PW, Hughes RM. Introduction to landscape influences on stream habitat and biological assemblages. In: Hughes RM, Wang L, Seelbach PW, eds. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages (Proceedings of the Symposium on Influences of Landscape on Stream Habitat and Biological Communities Held in Madison, WI, August 25-26, 2004). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2006, pp. 1-23. R829498 (Final)
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Book Chapter Whittier TR, Stoddard JL, Hughes RM, Lomnicky GA. Associations among catchment- and site-scale disturbance indicators and biological assemblages at least- and most-disturbed stream and river sites in the western United States. In: Hughes RM, Wang L, Seelbach PW, eds. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages (Proceedings of the Symposium on Influences of Landscape on Stream Habitat and Biological Communities Held in Madison, WI, August 25-26, 2004). Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2006, pp. 641-664. R829498 (2004)
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Journal Article Gerth WJ, Herlihy AT. Effect of sampling different habitat types in regional macroinvertebrate bioassessment surveys. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 2006;25(2):501-512. R829498 (2004)
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Journal Article Munn MD, Waite IR, Larsen DP, Herlihy AT. The relative influence of geographic location and reach-scale habitat on benthic invertebrate assemblages in six ecoregions. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 2009;154(1-4):1-14. R829498 (Final)
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Journal Article Pan Y, Hill BH, Husby P, Hall RK, Kaufmann PR. Relationships between environmental variables and benthic diatom assemblages in California Central Valley streams (USA). Hydrobiologia 2006;561(1):119-130. R829498 (Final)
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Journal Article Waite IR, Herlihy AT, Larsen DP, Urquhart NS, Klemm DJ. The effects of macroinvertebrate taxonomic resolution in large landscape bioassessments: an example from the Mid-Atlantic Highlands, U.S.A. Freshwater Biology 2004;49(4):474-489. R829095 (Final)
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Presentation Griffith MB, Lazorchak JM, Herlihy AT. Relationships among exceedences of metals criteria, the results of ambient bioassays, and community metrics in metals-impacted streams. Presented at the EMAP Symposium, Newport, RI, May 3-7, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Herlihy AT. Diagnosing causes of impairment in Mid-Atlantic U.S. streams in poor biological condition using probability survey data. Presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Pittsburgh, PA, May 28-June 1, 2002. R829498 (2002)
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Presentation Herlihy AT. Characteristics of limestone streams in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands Assessment. Presented at the EPA Region 3 Biocriteria Workshop on Limestone Streams, Cacapon, WV, 2002. R829498 (2002)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Li. J, Gerth B, Banks J. The effects of forest disturbance on macroinvertebrates in western Oregon headwater streams-patterns in existing databases. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 2003. R829498 (2003)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Hughes RM, Sifneos J. Developing a national classification scheme for fish assemblages in the conterminous United States. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Madison, WI, August 22-26, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Gerth WJ. Effect of sampling differing habitat types in regional macroinvertebrate bioassessment surveys. Presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 6-10, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Hughes RM, Sifneos J. National clusters of lotic fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages in the United States and their relationship to existing spatial classification schemes. Presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Biological Assessment Workgroup, Hood River, OR, November 3-5, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Hughes RM, Sifneos J. National clusters of lotic fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages in the United States and their relationship to existing spatial classification schemes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Corvallis, OR, 2005. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Hughes RM, Sifneos J. National clusters of lotic fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages in the United States and their relationship to existing spatial classification schemes. Presented at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, UT, February 20-25, 2005. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Herlihy AT, Sifneos JC, Hughes RM, Gerth WJ. Assessing the classification strength of existing spatial schemes in explaining stream fish and macroinvertebrate assemblage similarity across the conterminous United States. Presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Anchorage, AK, June 4-8, 2006. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Hughes RM. Environmental correlates of fish assemblages at basin, ecoregion, state, and multistate scales. Presented at the 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 2003. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Hughes RM, Whittier TR, Lomnicky GA. Fish assemblages of reference and disturbed streams of forested regions of the western USA. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Athens, GA, May 27-31, 2003. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Hughes RM. Regional scale monitoring: results from Oregon and the Western USA. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Oregon Chapter American Fisheries Society, Eugene, OR, February 26-28, 2003. R829498 (2002)
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Presentation Hughes RM. Regional scale monitoring: results from Oregon and the western USA. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Oregon Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Eugene, OR, 2003. R829498 (2003)
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Presentation Hughes RM, Lomnicky G, Whittier TR. Non-native aquatic vertebrates: results from EMAP’s western pilot. Presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR, August 1-6, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Hughes RM. How reference sites and probabilistic surveys were used to characterize stream condition across large geographic areas using macroinvertebrate assemblages. Presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 6-10, 2004. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Hughes RM. The human disturbance gradient. Presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Biological Assessment Workgroup, Hood River, OR, November 3-5, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Hughes RM. Habitat assessment considering both biota and mechanisms of geomorphic and anthropogenic influence on streams. Presented at the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Anchorage, AK, September 10-15, 2005. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Hughes RM. Selecting reference sites—an approach for biological criteria and watershed assessment. Presented at the 2005 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, North American Benthological Society, and American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, LA, May 23-27, 2005. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Hughes RM. The human disturbance gradient. Presented at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Biocriteria Workshop, Reno, NV, 2002. R829498 (2002)
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Presentation Hughes RM. The human disturbance gradient. Presented at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Biocriteria Workshop, Lawrence, KS, 2002. R829498 (2002)
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Presentation Klemm DJ, Blocksom KA, Herlihy AT, Thoeny WT. Evaluation of macroinvertebrate trends in streams vulnerable to acid deposition in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands region. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the 24th Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Austin, TX, November 9-13, 2003. R829498 (2003)
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Presentation Munn MD, Waite IR, Larsen DP, Herlihy AT. The relative influence of reach-scale habitat and geographic location on benthic invertebrate assemblages in six ecoregions. Presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Anchorage, AK, June 4-8, 2006. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Pan Y, Stevenson RJ. Using diatom-based inference models in stream bioassessment. To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Athens, GA, May 27-31, 2003. R829498 (2002)
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Presentation Pan Y. Algal-environmental data analysis: beyond ordinations? Presented at the 15th NAWQA Workshop on Harmonization of Algal Taxonomy, Philadelphia, PA, April 28-May 1, 2005. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Pan Y, Stevenson RJ. Characterizing common diatom species distributions in the Mid-Atlantic streams: a statistical modeling approach. Presented at the 2005 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, North American Benthological Society, and American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, LA, May 23-27, 2005. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Rinne JN, Hughes RM, Calamusso B. Historical changes in large river fish assemblages of the Americas. Presented at the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Anchorage, AK, September 10-15, 2005. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Sifneos JC, Herlihy AT, Gerth WJ, Hughes RM. National clusters of lotic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the United States and their relationship to existing spatial classification schemes. Presented at the 2005 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, North American Benthological Society, and American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, LA, May 23-27, 2005. R829498 (Final)
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Presentation Van Sickle J, Larsen DP, Herlihy AT. Per-taxon models for assemblage-based bioassessments :modeling the whole as the sum of its parts. Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Athens, GA, May 27-31, 2003. R829498 (2003)
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Presentation Van Sickle J, Baker J, Herlihy AT. Theory can help structure regression models for projecting stream conditions under alternative land use scenarios. Presented at the 2005 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, North American Benthological Society, and American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, LA, May 23-27, 2005. R829498 (2004)
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Presentation Weilhoefer C, Pan Y. Comparison of western EMAP periphyton data generated from two sampling protocols. Presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Biological Assessment Workgroup, Hood River, OR, November 3-5, 2004. R829498 (2004)
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