Integrated aquatic community and water quality monitoring of wadeable streams in the Klamath Network – Annual report: 2011 results from Whisketytown National Recreation Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park
Dinger EC and Sarr DA. 2014. Integrated aquatic community and water quality monitoring of wadeable streams in the Klamath Network – Annual report: 2011 results from Whisketytown National Recreation Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/KLMN/NRTR—2014/904. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Sampling was undertaken to determine the ecological condition status of streams in two park units: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, and Lassen Volcanic National Park. Ecological condition, “the state of the physical, chemical and biological characteristics, and the processes and interactions that connect them,” was assessed by measuring an array of stream biota, in-stream characteristics, water quality, and stream bank variables and metrics. These measures were then used, either singularly or integrated, to assign sites to conditions categories of “Least disturbed, Intermediate, and Most disturbed.”
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dinger, Eric; Sarr, Daniel
- Date of Issue
- 2014-08
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- KLMN , LAVO , NRSS , WHIS
- Keywords
- Amphibians, Aquatic Communities, EMAP, Fish, IBI, Macroinvertebrates, Monitoring, Redwood National and State Parks, Streams, streams monitoring, Water Quality, Water Quality Monitoring
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Stream/River Channel Characteristics , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Water Chemistry , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Aquatic Macroinvertebrates and Algae , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Freshwater Communities