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

Thomas P. Simon

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. Halliwell, Richard W. IAngdon, Robert A. Daniels, James P. Kurtenbach, and Richard A. Jacobson -- Chapter-13 Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity for the Species Depauperate Lake Agassiz Plain Eco Region, North Dakota and Minnesota /Scott Niemela, Eric Pearson, Thomas P. Simon, Robert M. Goldstein, and Patricia A. Bailey -- Chapter-14 Applications of Indices of Biotic Integrity to California Streams and Watersheds /Peter B. Moyle and Michael P. Marchetti -- SECTION IV: APPLICATION TO FRESHWATER RESOURCE TYPES OTHER THAN WADEABLE WARMWATER STREAMS -- Chapter-15 Development and Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Coldwater Streams of the Upper Midwestern United States /Neal D. Mundahl and Thomas P. Simon -- Chapter-16 Biological Monitoring and An Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Erie's Nearshore Waters /Roger F. Thoma -- Chapter-17 Considerations for Characterizing Midwestern Large River Habitats /Robin J. Reash -- Chapter-18 Applying an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Great River Fish Communities: Considerations in Sampling and Interpretation /Thomas P. Simon and Randall E. Sanders -- Chapter-19 Tailwater Fish Index (TFI) Development for the Tennessee River liibutary Tailwaters /Edwin M. Scott, Jr. -- Chapter-20 Reservoir Fishery Assessment Index Development: A Tool for Assessing Ecological Health in Tennessee Valley Authority Impoundments /Thomas A. McDonough and Gary D. Hickman -- Chapter-21 Toward the Development of An Index of Biotic Integrity for Inland Lakes in Wisconsin /Martin J. Jennings, John Lyons, Edward E. Emmons, Gene R. Hatzenbele,; Michael Bozek, Timothy D. Simonson, T. Douglas Beard, Jr., and Don Fago -- Chapter-22 Development of IBI Metrics for Lakes in Southern New England /Thomas R. Whittier -- SECTION V: DATA VALIDATION -- Chapter-23 Relations Between Fish Metrics and Measures of Anthropogenic Disturbance in Three IBI Regions in Virginia /Roy A. Smogor and Paul L. Angermeier -- Chapter-24 Methods for Deriving Maximum Species Richness Lines and Other Threshold Relationships in Biological Field Data /Edward T. Rankin and Chris 0. Yoder -- Chapter-25 Adjustments to the Index of Biotic Integrity: A Summary of Ohio Experiences and Some Suggested Modifications /Edward T. Rankin and Chris 0. Yoder -- Chapter-26 Integrating Assessments of Fish and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages and Physical Habitat Conditions in Pennsylvania /Blaine D. Snyder, James B. Stribling, Michael T. Barbour, and Carroll L. Missimer -- Index.