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- Title
Quantitative macroinvertebrate bioassessment in seasonally astatic aquatic habitats, Part II. Applying the method.
- Authors
Rogers, D. Christopher; Baba, Barry
- Abstract
Seasonally astatic aquatic habitats are important ecologically, municipally, and agriculturally. Regulatory agencies and conservation organizations have developed various plans for protecting or constructing temporary wetlands, resulting in habitat monitoring requirements, particularly as relates to restoration and constructed habitats. Unfortunately, there has been no effort to develop a unified, consistent method for wetland biological monitoring. In Part I, we presented a quantifiable, replicable method for assessing seasonally astatic wetlands, which would allow for direct comparison between individual wetlands, wetland sites, and wetland types. Here in Part II, we apply the method and present the results from more than a decade of a data on two disparate sites that support California vernal pool habitats. These habitats include natural, restored, and constructed vernal pools. Our results demonstrate that the method we present yields reliable, statistically useful, and actionable data and provides a better method for assessing astatic wetland ecological health and the persistence of federally listed vernal pool crustaceans than other methods so far employed.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; AQUATIC habitats; VERNAL pools; WETLANDS; ARTIFICIAL habitats; WETLANDS monitoring; BIOLOGICAL monitoring
- Publication
Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2024, Vol 196, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
0167-6369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10661-024-12556-8