Predicting levels of stress from biological assessment data: Empirical models from the Eastern Corn Belt Plains, Ohio, Usa

Can biological assessments discriminate

Can biological assessments discriminate among types of stress? A case study from the Eastern Corn Belt Plains ecoregion

✍ Susan B. Norton; Susan M. Cormier; Marc Smith; R. Christian Jones 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 101 KB

## Abstract We investigated the feasibility of using the structure of fish and benthic macroinvertebrate communities to distinguish among major types of stressors (e.g., siltation, nutrient enrichment, and stream structural degradation) using spatially and temporally matched data on stressors and r