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Bryant, W.L., Goodbred, S.L., Leiker, T.L., Inouye, Laura, and Johnson , B.T., 2007, Use of Chemical Analysis and Assays of Semipermeable Membrane Devices Extracts to Assess the Response of Bioavailable Organic Pollutants in Streams to Urbanization in Six Metropolitan Areas of the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5113.
Coles, J.F., Cuffney, T. F., McMahon, Gerard, and Beaulieu, K.M., 2004, The effects of urbanization on the biological, physical, and chemical characteristics of coastal New England streams: U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1695, 47 p.
Couch, Carol, and Hamilton, Pixie, 2002, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet FS-042-02, 2 p.
Cuffney, T,F., Bilger, M.D., and Haigler, A.M., 2007, Ambiguous taxa: effects on the characterization and interpretation of invertebrate assemblages, J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 2007, 26(2):286-307.
Cuffney, T.F., Zappia, Humbert, Giddings, E.M.P., and Coles. J.F., 2005, Urbanization effects on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in contrasting environmental settings: Boston, Birmingham, and Salt Lake City, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium XX, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 361-407.
Falcone, James, Stewart, Jana, Sobieszczyk, Steven, Dupree, Jean, McMahon, Gerard, and Buell, Gary, 2007, A comparison of natural and urban characteristics and the development of urban intensity indices across six geographic settings: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5123, 43 p., 7 apps.
Giddings, E.M.G, Brown, L.R., Short, T.M. and Meador, M.R., 2006, Relation of fish communities to environmental conditions in urban streams of the Wasatch Front, Utah: Western North American Naturalist v. 66 p. 155-186.
Giddings, E.M., Moorman, M., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, and Harned, D.A., 2007, Selected physical, chemical, and biological data for 30 urbanizing streams in the North Carolina Piedmont ecoregion, 2002—2003: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 279, 14 p.
Gregory, M.B., and Bryant, W.L., 2003, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Georgia and Albama - A study design: in Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 5 p.
Gregory, M.B., and Calhoun, D.L., 2007, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Responses of Streams to Increasing Watershed Urbanization in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Georgia and Alabama, 2003, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5101-B.
Gregory, M.B., 2005, Microhabitat preference by aquatic invertebrates influence bioassessment metrics in Piedmont streams of Georgia and Alabama: in Hatcher, K.J., editor, Proceedings of the 2005 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 6 p.
Hopkins, E.H., 2003, Using a geographic information system to rank urban intensity of small watersheds for the Chattahoochee, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Oconee River Basins in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Georgia and Alabama: in Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 3 p.
Hughes, W.B., and Berndt, M.P., 2003, National Water-Quality Assessment in Georgia, 2001-2011: in Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Water Resources Conference, Athens, Georgia, 5 p.
McMahon, Gerard, 2007. Consequences of land-cover misclassification in models of impervious surface. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 73(12): 1343-1353.
McMahon, Gerard and Cuffney, T.F., 2000, Quantifying urban intensity in drainage basins for assessing stream ecological conditions: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 36, p. 1247-1261. http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/ecology/pubs/index.html
McMahon, Gerard, Bales, J.D., Coles J.F., Giddings, E.M.P., and Zappia, Humbert, 2003, Use of stage data to characterize hydrologic conditions in an urbanizing environment: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, vol. 39, no. 6., p. 1529-1546.
Meador, M.R., Coles, J.F., and Zappia, Humbert, 2005, Fish assemblage responses to urban intensity gradients in contrasting metropolitan areas: Birmingham, Alabama, and Boston, Massachusetts, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 409-423.
Potapova, Marina, Coles, J. F., Giddings, E.M., and Zappia, Humbert, 2005, A comparison of the influences of urbanization on stream benthic algal assemblages in contrasting environmental settings, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p.333-359.
Short, T.M., Giddings, E.M.P., Zappia, Humbert, Coles, J.F., 2005, Urbanization effects on habitat characteristics of streams in Boston, Massachusetts, Birmingham, Alabama, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 317-332.
Sprague, L.A. and Nowell, L.H. 2008. Comparison of pesticide concentrations in streams at low flow in six metropolitan areas of the United States, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 288-298
Sprague, L.A., Harned, D.A., Hall, D.W., Nowell, L.H., Bauch, N.J., and Richards, K.D., 2007, Response of stream chemistry during base flow to gradients of urbanization in selected locations across the conterminous United States, 2002–04: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5083, 132 p.
Sprague, L.A., Zuellig, R.E., and Dupree, J.A., 2006, Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming, chap. A of Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems in six metropolitan areas of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5101-A, 139 p.
Sprague, L.A., Zuellig, R.E., and Dupree, J.A., 2006, Effects of Urban Development on Stream Ecosystems along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado and Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2006–3083, 4 p.
Tate, C.M., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, Giddings, E.M.P., Zappia, Humbert, 2005, Use of an urban intensity index to assess urban effects on streams in three contrasting environmental settings, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, R.M., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems: American Fisheries Society, Symposium 47, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 291-315.
Wilber, W.G., and Couch, C.A., 2002, Assessing Five National Priorities in Water Resources: Water Resources IMPACT, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 17-21.
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