The Question

From: Kris Stepenuck [mailto:kris.stepenuck@ces.uwex.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:48 AM
To: Volunteer water monitoring
Subject: [volmonitor] Land use - aquatic integrity studies

Hi everyone-

Thanks so much for your wonderful response to my request for
nitrogen-related fact sheets. I posted nearly 30 links to nitrogen-related
fact sheets at:
http://www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer/GuideForGrowing/Publications.html#N

I got a few other requests for creating similar publications listings. So,
I'd again like to ask for your help in locating online publications, this
time about studies relating various parameters of land use/land cover in a
watershed (e.g., percent forested cover, road density, % of wetlands filled
or disconnected from streams) to aquatic ecosystem integrity (e.g., IBI's),
providing information that might be helpful to communities doing land-use
planning/zoning.

Thanks for your help with this!

Kris

Kris Stepenuck
Wisconsin Volunteer Stream Monitoring Coordinator
445 Henry Mall, Rm 202
Madison, WI 53706-1577
Phone: 608-265-3887
Fax: 608-262-2031

Responses

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:36:55 -0400
From: "Schenk, Ann" <aschenk@dnr.state.md.us>
Subject: RE: [volmonitor] Land use - aquatic integrity studies

Carolyn and Kris,
I missed the second part of the original post.
The Maryland Biological Stream Survey, and the volunteer component,
Stream Waders, compute IBIs and do land use analysis with respect to the
IBIs.See the publications listed on pages
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/streams/mbss/mbss_pubs.html and
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/streams/mbss/current_act.html for publication lists.

Ann Schenk
Natural Resource Biologist III
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
580 Taylor Ave., C-2
Annapolis, MD 21401
phone: 410-260-8609

Also see: Stepenuck, K.F., R.L. Crunkilton, L. Wang. 2002. Impacts of urban land use on macroinvertebrate communities in southeastern Wisconsin streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 38 (4): 1041-1052.

Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:54:28 -0400
From: Lorraine Joubert <ljoubert@uri.edu>

Kris,
You could check the Source Water Assessment Reports we prepared for major water suppliers in RI. The assessment method uses a number of watershed pollution risk indicators derived from land use, soils and other GIS coverages. Results are availalbe as full reports, factsheets and maps at:

http://www.uri.edu/ce/wq/RESOURCES/dwater/Assessments/

Lorraine

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:30:04 -0500
From: Tony Thorpe <tony@lmvp.org>

Kris,
I've got a few scans on my website:
http://www.lmvp.org/documents.htm

These papers will be regarding reservoirs and not streams.

Of particular interest may be these:
Role of land cover and hydrology in determining nutrients in mid-continent reservoirs: implications for nutrient criteria and management. Jones, J.R., M.F. Knowlton, D.V. Obrecht. 2007. Lake and Reserv. Manage. (in press).

Jones, J.R. and M.F. Knowlton. 2005. Suspended solids in Missouri reservoirs in relation to catchment features and internal processes. Water Research 39: 3629-3635.

Jones, J.R., M.F. Knowlton, D.V. Obrecht and E.A. Cook. 2004 . Importance of landscape variables and morphology on nutrients in Missouri Reservoirs. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 61: 1503-1512.

I just put up one stream paper that you should find useful:
Perkins, Bruce D., K. Lohman, E. Van Nieuwenhuyse and J.R. Jones. 1998. An examination of land cover and stream water quality among physiographic provinces of Missouri, USA. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.26: 940-947

And I like to get the word on on this one, because it uses volunteer data without it being regarded as a novelty. It's only tangentially relevant to your land use search, however.:
Obrecht, D.V., A.P. Thorpe and J.R. Jones. 2005. Responses in the James River Arm of Table Rock Lake, Missouri (USA) to point-source phosphorus reduction. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 29: 1043-1048.

All of these papers are on the page linked at the beginning of this email.

Good luck!
Tony

Tony Thorpe

Coordinator, Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program
302 ABNR University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 1-800-895-2260
Fax: 573-884-5070
www.lmvp.org

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