Qualifying variability: patterns in water quality and biota from a long-term, multi-stream dataset

Camille Flinders; Douglas McLaughlin

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Qualifying variability: patterns in water quality and biota from a long-term, multi-stream dataset

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Camille Flinders, Douglas McLaughlin

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 302 p.

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Abstract

Effective water resources assessment and management requires quantitative information on the variability of ambient and biological conditions in aquatic communities. Although it is understood that natural systems are variable, robust estimates of variation in water quality and biotic endpoints (e.g. community-based structure and function metrics) are rare in US waters; due, in large part, to the need for, but paucity of, consistent, long-term studies.

Parent Publication

Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management - Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Citation

Flinders, Camille; McLaughlin, Douglas. 2016. Qualifying variability: patterns in water quality and biota from a long-term, multi-stream dataset. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.