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Benthological Society to discuss ways to develop and
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Conductivity and major ions - optima and tolerances - NAWQA
- Added on 5/7/2003
Marina Potapova
Conductivity and major ion abundance weighted mean (AWM) and tolerance values for 638 diatom taxa found in 2674 USGS NAWQA samples collected throughout the US.
Relationships of soft-bodied algae to water-quality and habitat characteristics in U.S. rivers: analysis of the NAWQA program data set
- Added on 10/25/2005
Marina Potapova
Relationships of soft-bodied algae to water-quality and habitat characteristics in U.S. rivers: analysis of the NAWQA program data set. PCER report #05-08
Relationships of soft-bodied algae to water-quality and habitat characteristics in U.S. rivers
- Report_October20.pdf
PDF File
Appendix 1: List of soft-bodied algal taxa recorded in NAWQA samples collected from 1993 to 2003
- Appendix1.xls
Excel (xls) file
Appendix 2: WA optima and tolerances of soft-bodied algal taxa for water-quality characteristics
- Appendix2.xls
Excel (xls) file
Appendix 3: WA optima and tolerances of soft-bodied algal taxa for habitat characteristics
- Appendix3.xls
Excel (xls) fild
Appendix 4: LR optima & tolerances of soft-bodied algae for water-quality & habitat characteristics
- Appendix4.xls
Excel (xls) file
Water chemistry parameters and site information- NJ Algae Indicators Project- NJDEP
- Added on 7/25/2004
Karin Ponader
Site information, water chemistry parameters and physical site characteristics for 45 sites sampled for benthic algae in New Jersey during 2000-2002.
Total Phosphorus indicator values for river diatoms from the Northern Piedmont Ecoregion
- Added on 9/20/2004
Marina Potapova
Total Phosphorus indicator values for diatoms from the rivers of the Northern Piedmont Ecoregion, USA, published in Potapova, M.G., D.F. Charles, K.C. Ponader, and D.M. Winter. 2004. Quantifying species indicator values for trophic diatom indices: a comparison of approaches. Hydrobiologia, 517: 25-41.
TP indicator values for the Northern Piedmont Ecoregion
- TableIndValues.xls
Excel spreadsheet
Water chemistry parameters and site information- NJ Algae Indicators Project (NJDEP): Coastal Plain Study
- Added on 8/30/2007
Karin Ponader
Site information, water chemistry parameters and physical site characteristics for 32 sites sampled for benthic algae from natural and artificial Substrate in the New Jersey Coastal Plain during 2003-2004.
Distribution and AWM's (pH, SRP, BOD, Cl and health) for river diatoms in eastern U.S.
- Added on 5/10/2006
Don Charles
Occurrence and abundance weighted mean values of health, pH, SRP, BOD and Cl for 177 diatom taxa occurring in 15 or more samples. Data are based on 186 diatom samples collected at 116 sites from 47 rivers in the eastern U.S. Table 5. from: Charles, D.F., F.W. Acker, D.D. Hart, C.W. Reimer, and P.B. Cotter. 2006. Large-scale regional variation in diatom-water chemistry relationships: rivers of the eastern United States. Hydrobiologia 561:27-57.
