Integrated Aquatic Community and Water Quality Monitoring of Wadeable Streams in the Klamath Network: Annual Report. 2011 Results from Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park.

摘要

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.”