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Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5076

Nutrient, Habitat, and Basin-Characteristics Data and Relations with Fish and Invertebrate Communities in Indiana Streams, 1998–2000

By Jeffrey W. Frey and Brian J. Caskey

Prepared in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Division of Water, Assessment Branch

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Abstract

An analysis of existing nutrient, habitat, basin-characteristics, and biological-community (fish and invertebrate) data assessed significant relations between nutrients and biological data. Data from 1998 through 2000 for 58 sites in the Upper Wabash River Basin, Lower Wabash River Basin, and tributaries to the Great Lakes and Ohio River Basins were analyzed. Correspondence analysis was used to assess significant relations among nutrients, habitat, basin-characteristics, and biological-community data. Canonical correspondence analysis was used to identify which environmental parameters most influenced the biological communities. When all 58 sites were assessed, six biological-community attributes, metric scores, or site scores were statistically sigificant but weak. When a subset of data was analyzed for eight headwater streams in one ecoregion to minimize the naturally occurring variability associated with the 58 sites, the strength of the relations increased and 24 attributes, metric scores, or site scores were significantly related. Fish-community composition in the 58 sites was most influenced by habitat and land use but not by nutrients. The invertebrate-community composition in the 58 sites was most influenced by habitat, land use, soils, and one nutrient (total Kjeldahl nitrogen [TKN]).

Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and Scope

Description of the Study Area

Site Selection and Study Methods

Watershed Monitoring Program of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management

Field Methods of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management

Nutrients

Biological Communities

Habitat

Basin-Characteristics Data

Nutrient Data

Data Analysis

Correspondence Analysis

Canonical Correspondence Analysis

Nutrient, Habitat, and Basin-Characteristics Data and Relations with Fish and Invertebrate Communities

Fish-Community Composition

Invertebrate-Community Composition

Nutrient Relations to the Biological-Community Attributes, Metric Scores, and Site Scores

Relations of the Biological Community to the Environmental Parameters

Summary

Acknowledgments

References

 

Appendixes

  1. Description of the 58 Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program Sampling Sites, 1998–2000.
  2. Land-Use Categories Used for the 58 Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program Sampling Sites.
  3. Soil Parameters Used for Basin Characteristics of the 58 Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program Sampling Sites.
  4. Table of Metrics Used by Indiana Department of Environmental Management for Habitat, Fish, and Invertebrates.
  5. Summer Nutrient Data for the 58 Sampling Sites from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program, 1998–2000.
  6. Habitat Data for the 58 Sampling Sites from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program, 1998–2000.
  7. Soils Data Used for 58 Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program Sampling Sites, 1998–2000.
  8. Fish-Community Data for the 58 Sampling Sites from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program, 1998–2000.
  9. Invertebrate-Community Data for the 58 Sampling Sites from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program, 1998–2000.

Figures

1–2. Maps showing:

  1. Location of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) Watershed Monitoring Program major basins and the 58 sampling sites, 1998–2000.
  2. Land use for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program major basins and the 58 sampling sites, 1998–2000.

Tables

  1. Land use associated with the major basins of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Monitoring Program.
  2. Summary of the regression/canonical coefficients for the first axis canonicalcorrespondence analysis of nutrient, habitat, basin-characteristics relationsto the fish and invertebrate communities for the Indiana Department ofEnvironmental Management Watershed Management Program 58 sampling sites, 1998–2000.
  3. Significant Pearson correlations of nutrients to the biological-communityattributes, metric scores, and site scores at eight headwater sites,Upper Wabash River Basin, Indiana, 2000.
  4. Summary of the regression/canonical coefficients for the first axis canonicalcorrespondence analysis of nutrient, habitat, basin-characteristics relations tothe fish and invertebrate communities for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management Watershed Management Program of the eight headwater sites,Upper Wabash River Basin, Indiana, 1998.

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