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Rapid Bioassessment Protocols

  • Rapid Bioassessment Protocols

    The Assessment and Watershed Protection Division developed the rapid bioassessment protocols (RBPs) designed to provide basic aquatic life data for water quality management purposes such as problem screening, site ranking, and trend monitoring, and produced a document.


Chapters and Sections

  • Forward and Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
  • Chapter 2: Application of RBPs
  • Chapter 3: Elements of Biomonitoring
  • Chapter 4: Performance Based Methods
  • Chapter 5: Habitat and Physiochemical Parameters
  • Chapter 6: Periphyton Protocols
  • Chapter 7: Benthic Macroinvertebrate Protocols
  • Chapter 8: Fish Protocols
  • Chapter 9: Biological Data Analysis
  • Chapter 10: Data Integration and Reporting
  • Literature Cited

Apendices

  • A1: Habitat and Physiochemical Data Sheets
  • A2: Periphyton Field/Laboratory Data Sheets
  • A3: Macroinvertebrate Field/Laboratory Data Sheets
  • A4: Fish Field/Laboratory Data Sheets
  • B: Benthic Regional Tolerance Values
  • C: Tolerance and Trophic Guilds of Selected Fish Species
  • D: Survey Approach of Historical Data

Additional Information

  • Watershed Academy - Rapid Bioassessment Protocols

    Training module that introduces the use of RBPs as an efficient, cost-effective bioassessment method.

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