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GUIDELINES FOR THE RAPID ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF BIODIVERSITY IN INLAND WATER, COASTAL AND MARINE AREAS<br />
ASSESSMENT METHOD APPLICATION REFERENCES<br />
Wiederholm’s Benthic Quality index (BQI) IW: chir<strong>on</strong>omids, oligochaetes (lakes) Nix<strong>on</strong> et al. (1996)<br />
Detrended Corresp<strong>on</strong>dence Analyses IW: lakes Nix<strong>on</strong> et al. (1996)<br />
(DCA)<br />
Jeffrey’s Biological Quality Index (BQI) macrobenthos (estuaries, coastal waters) Nix<strong>on</strong> et al. (1996)<br />
Biotic Sediment Index (BSI) macroinvertebrates (sediments) De Pauw & Heylen (2001)<br />
Fish<br />
Karr’s Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) (Fish<br />
index)<br />
BIRDS<br />
IW/MC: fish Karr (1981)<br />
Internati<strong>on</strong>al Waterbird Census (IWC) <str<strong>on</strong>g>for</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
wintering waterbirds<br />
“all in”-systems<br />
IW/MC: birds<br />
Nix<strong>on</strong> et al. (1996); http://www.wetlands<br />
.org/IWC/Manuals.htm<br />
Patrick’s histograms IW/MC: algae to fish; except bacteria Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984)<br />
Chutter’s index IW/MC: all; except Cladocera & Copepoda Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984)<br />
Similarity indices / Comparative indices<br />
Jaccard’s index IW/MC Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984), Hellawell (1986)<br />
Percentage similarity (PSC) IW/MC Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984)<br />
Bray-Curtis dissimilarity IW/MC Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984)<br />
Pinkham and Pears<strong>on</strong>’s Index IW/MC Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984)<br />
Euclidean or ‘ecological’ distance IW/MC Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984)<br />
Washingt<strong>on</strong> (1984) IW/MC Hellawell (1986)<br />
Mount<str<strong>on</strong>g>for</str<strong>on</strong>g>t Index of similarity IW/MC Hellawell (1986)<br />
Raabe’s Comparative measure IW/MC Hellawell (1986)<br />
Kulezynski’s Coefficient of similarity IW/MC Hellawell (1986)<br />
Czekanowski’s Comparative measure IW/MC Hellawell (1986)<br />
Sokal’s Distance measure IW/MC Hellawell (1986)<br />
Ecosystem health<br />
AMOEBA IW/MC Nix<strong>on</strong> et al. (1996),Ten Brink et al. (1991)<br />
INTEGRATED OR COMBINED ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS<br />
TRIAD - Quality <str<strong>on</strong>g>Assessment</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
http://www.nos.noaa.gov/nccos/ccma/<br />
publicati<strong>on</strong>s.aspx?au=Chapman<br />
IW/MC: BSI, ecotox., phys.-chem. (sediments)<br />
http://www.ingentac<strong>on</strong>nect.com/c<strong>on</strong>tent/klu/ectx/2002/00000011/0000000<br />
5/05096179<br />
EPA ‘s <str<strong>on</strong>g>Rapid</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Assessment</str<strong>on</strong>g> Protocols (RBP) IW/MC Barbour et al. (1999)<br />
SERCON<br />
IW/MC:Physical diversity,naturalness,representativeness,<br />
rarity, species richness<br />
Bo<strong>on</strong> et al. (2002) (see also: Pars<strong>on</strong>s et<br />
al. (2002)<br />
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