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Zusatztext "?book serves an important need both for users and nonusers as a statement of present successes and problems with the IBI?comprehensive appendices categorize most of the freshwater fish species in North America by criteria applicable to IBI! such as functional or trophic group membership.--William J. Matthews! Copeia! 2001! No. 1"If you have an interest in using an existing IBI or developing a new one! this book is required reading."--Frank J. Rahel! American Fisheries Society Informationen zum Autor Thomas P. Simon Klappentext This book examines the application of fish community characteristics to evaluate the sustainability and biological integrity of freshwaters. Topics discussed include perspectives on use of fish communities as environmental indicators in program development! collaboration! and forming partnerships; influence of specific taxa on assessment of the IBI; regional applications for areas where the ITI had not previously been developed; and specific applications of the ITI developed for coldwater streams! inland lakes! Great Lakes! reservoirs! and tailwaters. TOC:Perspectives.- Guild and Metrics Determination.- Regional Applications of ITI.- Application to Freshwater Resource Types Other Than Wadable Warmwater Streams.- Data Validation. Zusammenfassung Examines the application of fish community characteristics to evaluate the sustainability and biological integrity of freshwaters. This work covers topics including 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD: Wayne S. Davis -- SECTION I: PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter-1 Introduction: Biological Integrity and Use of Ecological Health Concepts for Application to Water Resource Characterization /Thomas P. Simon -- Chapter-2 Using Fish Assemblages in a State Biological Assessment and Criteria Program: Essential Concepts and Considerations /Chris O. Yoder and Marc A. Smith -- Chapter-3 Collaboration, Compromise, and Conflict: How to Form Partnerships in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring /Thomas P. Simon, Robert M. Goldstein, Patricia A. Bailey, Eric Pearson, Michael Ell, Konrad Schmidt, John Emblom, and Lynn Schlueter -- Chapter-4 Historical Biogeography, Ecology, and Fish Distributions: Conceptual Issues for Establishing IBI Criteria /Rex Meade Strange -- Chapter-5 Applications of IBI Concepts and Metrics to Waters Outside the United States and Canada /Robert M. Hughes and Thierry Oberdorff -- SECTION II: GUILD AND METRICS DETERMINATION -- Chapter-6 Assessment of Balon's Reproductive Guilds with Application to Midwestern North American Freshwater Fishes /Thomas P. Simon -- Chapter-7 Toward a United Definition of Guild Structure for Feeding Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes /Robert M. Goldstein and Thomas P. Simon -- Chapter-8 Influence of the Family Catostomidae on the Metrics Developed for a Great Rivers Index of Biotic Integrity /Erich B. Emery, Thomas P. Simon, and Robert Ovies -- Chapter-9 The Use of External Deformities, Erosion, Lesions, and Tumors (DELT Anomalies) in Fish Assemblages for Characterizing Aquatic Resources: A Case Study of Seven Ohio Streams /Randall E. Sanders, Robert J. Miltner, Chris O. Yoder, and Edward T. Rankin -- SECTION III: REGIONAL APPLICATIONS OF THE IBI -- Chapter-10 Effects of Drainage Basin Size and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Relations Between Stream Size and IBI Metrics in Virginia /Roy A. Smogor and Paul L Angermeier -- Chapter-11 Characteristics of Fish Assemblages and Environmental Conditions in Streams of the Upper Snake River Basin, in Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming /Terry R. Maret -- Chapter-12 Classification of Freshwater Fish Species of the Northeastern United States for Use in the Development of Indices of Biological Integrity, with Regional Applications /David B. Halliw...
