Literature citations describing both sampling and analytical methods used (including calibration procedures) in the BIBI:

From: James Karr & Sarah Morley

Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003

To: streamkeepers

Subject: Re: Need BIBI literature list

Doberstein, C. P., J. R. Karr, and L. L. Conquest. 2000. The

effect of fixed-count subsampling on macroinvertebrate biomonitoring in

small streams. Freshwater Biology 44: 355-371.

Fore, L.S., J.R. Karr, and R.W. Wisseman. 1996. Assessing invertebrate responses to human activities: evaluating alternative approaches. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15:212-231.

-----Sarah doesn't think the Fore et al. 1996 uses EXACTLY the same suite of metrics as the 10 genus-level, but very close, and certainly relevant to cite as background information.

Fore, L.S., K. Paulsen, and K. O’Laughlin. 2001. Assessing the performance of volunteers in monitoring streams. Freshwater Biology 46: 109-123

Karr, J.R. 1998. Rivers as sentinels: using the biology of rivers to guide landscape management. Pages 502-528 in R.J. Naiman and R.E. Bilby, editors. River ecology and management: lessons from the Pacific Coastal ecoregion. Springer, New York.

Karr, J. R. 2003. Vignette 11.1. Biological integrity and ecological

health. Pages 245-249 in M. C. Newman and M. A. Unger. Fundamentals of

Ecotoxicology,Second Edition. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL.

Karr, J.R.,and E.W. Chu. 1999. Restoring life in running waters: better biological monitoring. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

Karr, J.R., and E.W. Chu. 2000. Sustaining living rivers. Hydrobiologia 422/423: 1-14.

Karr, J. R., J. D. Allan, and A. C. Benke. 2000. River conservation in the United States and Canada. Pages 3-39 in P. J. Boon, B.R. Davies, and G. E. Petts, editors. Global Perspectives on River Conservation: Science, Policy, and Practice. J. Wiley, NY.

Karr, J.R. and E.M. Rossano. 2001. Applying public health lessons to

protect river health. Ecology and Civil Engineering 4: 3-18.

Karr, J. R., and D. N. Kimberling. 2003. A terrestrial arthropod index of biological integrity for shrub-steppe landscapes. Northwest Science 77: 202-213.

Morley, S.A., and J.R. Karr. 2002. Assessing and restoring the health of urban streams in the Puget Sound Basin. Conservation Biology 16: 1498-1509.

National Research Council (NRC). 2001. Assessing the TMDL Approach to

Water Quality Management. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

-----Also perhaps of interest is a paper on TMDL by Karr and Yoder which should be published later this year in Journal of Environmental Engineering. The citation for that paper is:

Karr, J. R. and C. O. Yoder. in press. Biological assessment and criteria

improve TMDL decision making. Journal of Environmental Engineering, in

press.

If you want to see an example of federal EPA using IBI you might check out

the recent (June 2003) overview report from EPA (EPA-260-R-02-006) on the

state of the nation's environment. It can be found at

http://www.epa.gov/indicators/ IN addition to brief mention in the

Executive summary, examples of use of IBI are given on pages 5-16 and

5-17 in the chapter on ecolgoical condition.

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