Development of Ecological Indicator Guilds

Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Western Fisheries Research Center (WFRC, Seattle) | Format: URL

wfrc.usgs.gov — The whole study, conducted at Fort Benning, Georgia, partially funded through the US Army, involves testing of water and soil quality, physical and biotic indicators of stress at both the population and community level. Anthropogenic stress in the present study comes from disturbance by vehicles, particularly tanks used in army training, and from More... The whole study, conducted at Fort Benning, Georgia, partially funded through the US Army, involves testing of water and soil quality, physical and biotic indicators of stress at both the population and community level. Anthropogenic stress in the present study comes from disturbance by vehicles, particularly tanks used in army training, and from proscribed burning of undergrowth. In this work, morphometric data from fish, aquatic invertebrates and aquatic plants are being collected, and utilizing all pertinent measures with the goal of comparing the sensitivity and consistency of these measures with others. Approaches to the modeling of the impacts of stress on stress measures and fitness of individual populations must await review of the nature of the data, including measures of physical landscape effects of disturbance. Less...