Biological effects of stream water quality on aquatic macroinvertebrates and fish communities within Great Smoky Mountains National Park / John S. Schwart [and five others].
Publication Info.
Fort Collins, Colorado : U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, 2014.
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1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NPS website, viewed January 28, 2021).
Contents
1.0. Introduction. 1.1. Overview : Water Quality Monitoring Program -- 1.2. Study overview -- 2.0. Database development. 2.1. Methods overview -- 2.2. Sites and parameters description -- 2.3. Baseflow-stormflow determination -- 2.4. Dissolved aluminum concentrations : parameter estimations -- 2.5. Watershed characteristics for collocated stream survey sites -- 3.0. Data summaries : water quality and aquatic biota -- 3.1. Water quality data -- 3.2. Fish data -- 3.3. Benthic macroinvertebrate data -- 4.0. Toxicological assessment and biotic sensitivity maps -- 4.1. Toxicity thresholds : literature review summary -- 4.2. Trout density compared with stream chemistry -- 4.3. Biotic sensitivity maps based on toxicological thresholds -- 4.4. Trout distributions based on water quality predictors -- 5.0. Temporal trend analysis : water quality and biotic metrics. 5.1. Methods : temporal trend analysis -- 5.2. Water quality temporal trends -- 5.3. Biotic metrics temporal tends -- 5.3. Biotic metrics temporal trends -- 5.4. Temporal trends among water quality and biotic metrics -- 6.0. Spatial variation of water quality, fish, and macroinvertebrates. 6.1. Elevation trends in water quality and biotic metrics -- 6.2. Eight-block watershed design : water quality and biotic metrics -- 7.0. Relationships among watershed characteristics, water quality, and biotic metrics. 7.1. Effects of watershed characteristics on water quality -- 7.2. Effects of water quality on biotic metrics -- 7.3. Relationships among watershed characteristics, water quality, and trout -- 7.4. Effects of acidity on aquatic biota in 303(d) listed streams -- 7.5. Biotic interactions -- 8.0. Summary and discussion -- 9.0. Data limitations and monitoring recommendations.
