ABSTRACT
This book examines the application of fish community characteristics to evaluate the sustainability and biological integrity of freshwaters. Topics include perspectives on use of fish communities as environmental indicators in program development, collaboration, and partnership forming; 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 developed for coldwater streams, inland lakes, Great Lakes, reservoirs, and tailwaters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|93 pages
Perspectives
section Section II|152 pages
Guild and Metrics Determination
section Section III|134 pages
Regional Applications of the IBI
section Section IV|202 pages
Application to Freshwater Resource Types Other Than Wadeable Warmwater Streams
section Section V|70 pages
Data Validation