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

	Foreword
Ch. 1	Introduction: Biological Integrity and Use of Ecological Health Concepts for Application to Water Resource Characterization	3
Ch. 2	Using Fish Assemblages in a State Biological Assessment and Criteria Program: Essential Concepts and Considerations	17
Ch. 3	Collaboration, Compromise, and Conflict: How to Form Partnerships in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring	57
Ch. 4	Historical Biogeography, Ecology, and Fish Distributions: Conceptual Issues for Establishing IBI Criteria	65
Ch. 5	Applications of IBI Concepts and Metrics to Waters Outside the United States and Canada	79
Ch. 6	Assessment of Balon's Reproductive Guilds with Application to Midwestern North American Freshwater Fishes	97
Ch. 7	Toward a United Definition of Guild Structure for Feeding Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes	123
Ch. 8	Influence of the Family Catostomidae on the Metrics Developed for a Great Rivers Index of Biotic Integrity	203
Ch. 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	225
Ch. 10	Effects of Drainage Basin Size and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Relations Between Stream Size and IBI Metrics in Virginia	249
Ch. 11	Characteristics of Fish Assemblages and Environmental Conditions in Streams of the Upper Snake River Basin, in Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming	273
Ch. 12	Classification of Freshwater Fish Species of the Northeastern United States for Use in the Development of Indices of Biological Integrity, with Regional Applications	301
Ch. 13	Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity for the Species Depauperate Lake Agassiz Plain Eco Region, North Dakota and Minnesota	339
Ch. 14	Applications of Indices of Biotic Integrity to California Streams and Watersheds	367
Ch. 15	Development and Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Coldwater Streams of the Upper Midwestern United States	383
Ch. 16	Biological Monitoring and An Index of Biotic Integrity for Lake Erie's Nearshore Waters	417
Ch. 17	Considerations for Characterizing Midwestern Large River Habitats	463
Ch. 18	Applying an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Great River Fish Communities: Considerations in Sampling and Interpretation	475
Ch. 19	Tailwater Fish Index (TFI) Development for the Tennessee River Tributary Tailwaters	507
Ch. 20	Reservoir Fishery Assessment Index Development: A Tool for Assessing Ecological Health in Tennessee Valley Authority Impoundments	523
Ch. 21	Toward the Development of An Index of Biotic Integrity for Inland Lakes in Wisconsin	541
Ch. 22	Development of IBI Metrics for Lakes in Southern New England	563
Ch. 23	Relations Between Fish Metrics and Measures of Anthropogenic Disturbance in Three IBI Regions in Virginia	585
Ch. 24	Methods for Deriving Maximum Species Richness Lines and Other Threshold Relationships in Biological Field Data	611
Ch. 25	Adjustments to the Index of Biotic Integrity: A Summary of Ohio Experiences and Some Suggested Modifications	625
Ch. 26	Integrating Assessments of Fish and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages and Physical Habitat Conditions in Pennsylvania	639
	Index