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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Fish-IBI"”.
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Quantification of the Effectiveness of Agricultural Riparian Buffers to Protect Stream Health in Maryland's Coastal Plain and Piedmont Regions
… A set of landscape characteristics describing the agricultural riparian landscape was developed, from which a classification system for agricultural riparian landscapes was developed. The Agricultural Riparian Classification System can identify a subset of sites for targeted research. …
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Biotic Integrity and Northern Pike Ecology in Eastern South Dakota
… stressors. An index of biotic integrity (IBI) translates community structure into a standardized stream health score. Documenting stream health is important in the Northern Glaciated Plains (NGP) Ecoregion, which is undergoing rapid landscape alterations because of increased agricultural …
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Data-driven analyses of watersheds as coupled human-nature systems
… The importance of environmental factors to fish biotic metrics was assessed using conventional measures of variable importance as well as more advanced information theory-based techniques. Understanding the relative influence of natural and man-made drainage area characteristics on …