Long term bioassessment multiple stressors study in a residential California stream.

The relationship of various benthic metrics to physical habitat metrics, pyrethroids, metals and sediment parameters was evaluated for a 10 year data set in Pleasant Grove Creek (Roseville, California) using univariate linear models, stepwise multiple regressions, and canonical correlation analysis. In general, total physical habitat scores in this residential stream were considered to be marginal to suboptimal. The most dominant benthic taxa were generally considered to be tolerant of environmental stressors and the benthic communities were rated as impaired based on a benthic index.

Bootstrap simulations to estimate relationships between Type I error, power, effect size, and appropriate sample numbers for bioassessments of aquatic ecosystems.

The Extended Bootstrap (EB) assessment approach was developed for the examination of relationships of Type I error, power, sample size (), and effect size (ES) for statistical tests of ecological data. The EB approach was applied to univariate and multivariate statistical analyses of a large data set collected from an ongoing, multiple stressor bioassessment study of watersheds in the Central Valley, San Francisco, and Central Coast areas of California. Benthic metrics were created that either increased or decreased monotonically with stress (toxicants or metrics indicative of habitat quality).

Multivariate spatial patterns analysis of environmental variables and benthic metrics in five California waterbodies.

Multivariate spatial patterns of 38 environmental variables (habitat metrics, metals, pyrethroids and sediment characteristics) and 14 benthic metrics were determined from over a decade of sampling in five California waterbodies. Canonical discriminant analyses produced very highly significant separations of the five watersheds based on environmental variables. The discriminant analyses based on benthic metrics also produced highly significant separations, although confidence ellipses were not quite as well separated as the environmental variables.

Ranking the importance of benthic metrics and environmental stressors from over a decade of bioassessment multiple stressor studies in five California waterbodies.

Comprehensive bioassessment multiple stressor field studies were conducted in five waterbodies in the Central Valley, San Francisco and Central Coast areas of California between 2006 and 2017. Samples were collected over multiple years in Pleasant Grove Creek (PGC - 8 years), Kirker Creek (KC - 2 years), Arcade Creek (ARC - 3 years), Salinas streams (SAL - 3 years) and the lower Santa Maria River watershed (SM - 3 years). In each watershed, metrics indicative of physical habitat quality and the relative health of benthic communities were collected, along with measurements of various potential toxicants in sediment (metals and pyrethroids), total organic carbon (TOC) and sediment grain size characteristics.

The influence of multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors on benthic communities in a mid-west agricultural stream.

The objective of this 3-year study was to characterize benthic communities and physical habitat in an agricultural stream in the mid-west area of the United States (Big Bureau Creek, Illinois). Concurrent basic water quality parameters and seven nutrients were measured in the water column. Sediment measurements from depositional areas were conducted for bifenthrin, Total Organic Carbon, grain size, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and eight metals.

The relationship of benthic community metrics to pyrethroids, metals, and sediment characteristics in Cache Slough, California.

A bioassessment multiple stressor study was conducted at 12 sites in Cache Slough, California during the Spring and Fall of 2012, 2013 and 2014. Specific study goals were to: (1) collect and identify benthic macroinvertebrates and develop a suite of benthic metrics; (2) measure total organic carbon (TOC), grain size, bulk metals, simultaneously extracted metals (SEM) and acid volatile sulfides (AVS), and 8 pyrethroids in sediment; (3) measure basic water quality parameters; and, (4) use univariate and stepwise multiple regressions and canonical correlation analysis to determine the relationship between various benthic metrics (i.e.

Long-term historical analysis of benthic communities and physical habitat in an agricultural stream in California's San Joaquin River watershed.

This study was designed to characterize long-term annual temporal and spatial trends (2001 to 2007) in physical habitat and benthic communities and to determine relationships of habitat and benthic communities during this 7-year period in an agricultural stream in the San Joaquin River watershed in California (Del Puerto Creek). The canonical discriminant analysis indicated that there were no overall significant temporal patterns for the habitat metrics although spatial patterns were prominent for nearly all the habitat metrics. Channel alteration, riparian vegetative zone, bank stability, vegetative protection and frequency of riffles/bends were the primary habitat metrics associated with these site effects.

A ten year summary of concurrent ambient water column and sediment toxicity tests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: 1990-1999.

The goal of this study was to identify the relative toxicity of ambient areas in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a suite of concurrent water column and sediment toxicity tests at seventy-five ambient stations in 20 Chesapeake Bay rivers from 1990 through 1999. Spatial and temporal variability was examined at selected locations throughout the 10 yr study. Inorganic and organic contaminants were evaluated in ambient water and sediment concurrently with water column and sediment tests to assess possible causes of toxicity although absolute causality can not be established.