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Striving for consistency in a national assessment: the challenges of applying a reference condition approach at a continental scale
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Striving for consistency in a national assessment: the challenges of applying a reference condition approach at a continental scale |
| Creator | Herlihy, A. T. Paulsen, S. Sickle, J. Van Stoddard, J. Hawkins, Charles P. Yuan, L. L. |
| Description | One of the biggest challenges when conducting a continental-scale assessment of streams is setting appropriate expectations for the assessed sites. The challenge occurs for 2 reasons: 1) tremendous natural environmental heterogeneity exists within a continental landscape and 2) reference sites vary in quality both across and within major regions of the continent. We describe the process used to set expectations for the multimetric index of biotic integrity (MIBI) and observed/expected (O/E)... |
| Date | 2008-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/778 info:doi/10.1899/08-081.1 |
| Rights | Copyright for this work is held by the author. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information contact the Institutional Repository Librarian at digitalcommons@usu.edu. |
| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Subject | reference condition reference sites regionalization biological condition gradient regional assessments |
