Funding Provided by USEPA

Peer Reviewed Papers:


Smucker, N.J. & Vis, M.L. Reference site diatom community models: assessing agricultural, coal mining, and spatial patterns of stream impacts. Journal of the North American Benthological Society (submitted June 2008).

 

North, Sheila, Johnson, K.L, and Rankin, E.T. “A Predictive (RIVAPC-type) Model for Stream Macroinvertebrate in the Western Allegheny Plateau. (in prep. Hydrobiologia)

 

We are beginning to compose various papers for publication and some tentative titles  and contributors are listed below:

 

Refined Biocriteria Classification for Fish, Macroinvertbrate, and Algal Assemblages in the Western Allegheny Plateau of Ohio – Star Team

 

Identification of major stressors impairing aquatic communities in wadeable streams of the Western Allegheny Plateau of Ohio – Star Team

 

Application of the WERF Integrated Impact Assessment tool to the Leading and Shade River watersheds of the Western Allegheny Plateau ecoregion of Ohio – Star Team