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Monitoring of Biological Integrity in Tributaries to the Lower Fox River, Wisconsin

Monitoring of Biological Integrity in Tributaries to the Lower Fox River, Wisconsin. The Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program May 19, 2004.

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Monitoring of Biological Integrity in Tributaries to the Lower Fox River, Wisconsin

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  1. Monitoring of Biological Integrity in Tributaries to the Lower Fox River, Wisconsin The Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program May 19, 2004

  2. We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the twentieth century: our tools are better than we are, and grow faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. Aldo Leopold, 1938

  3. Fish Are In Trouble  HERE !Threatened Species per Country USA leads the Way

  4. Lake Sturgeon (below DePere Dam)

  5. Urbanization & the Loss of Fish SpeciesSoutheastern Wisconsin Wang et. al. 1998

  6. Effects of Urbanization on Stream Biological and Habitat Integrity • Increased Peak Flow • Decreased Baseflow • Increased Bank Erosion • Decrease Water Quality • Substrate Degradation • Habitat Loss • Species Loss - Fish, Invertebrates, Plants

  7. Social & Economic Natural Landscape Factors Land Use Patterns Abiotic Responses Primary Production  Benthic Invertebrates  Fish Community Hydrology  Chemistry  Habitat Biotic Responses Continuum of Effects in Watersheds

  8. Data Collected & Analyzed • Stream Hydrology and Water Quality • Stream Habitat Quality • Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Abundance and Diversity • Fish Abundance and Species Composition

  9. Some Fishes of the Fox River and its Tributaries

  10. Fox River Tributary Fish Species2003 Summer Sampling

  11. Native Taxa Highly Tolerant Taxa DELT Anomalies Intolerant Taxa BioCriteria Metric Behavior Along a Stressor Gradient BioCriteria Metric Value Stressor Gradient [Effect of Human Activity] LOW HIGH

  12. Biological Responses … Fish and Invertebrates Heavy Erosion on a Silver Redhorse Heavy Tumor on a Carp Heavily Eroded Barbels & Deformities on a Yellow Bullhead Normal Barbels on a Yellow Bullhead Cricotopus Midges: A Key Indicator of Toxicity Oligochaetes: A Key Indicator of Organic Enrichment

  13. Fish Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI)Fox River Tributary 2003 Summer Sampling Poor Very Poor

  14. Corydalidae 100% Haliplidae Chrysomelidae 90% Elmidae Simuliidae 80% Statiomyidae Empididae 70% Chironomidae Percent Compostion Polycentropodidae 60% Hydroptilidae Hydropsychidae 50% Baetidae Caenidae 40% Heptageneidae Gerridae 30% Decapoda Asellidae 20% Gammaridae Oligochaeta 10% Hirudinea Turbellaria 0% Bivalva Apple Lymneaidae Spring Brook Ashwaubenon Duck Creek HWYFF Planorbidae Duck Creek HWYEE Physidae Aquatic Macroinvertebrates

  15. 9 8 7 FBI 6 5 4 3 Duck Apple Quaas Lincoln Pike North Pike South Underwood Ashwabenon Springbrooke STREAM Aquatic MacroinvertebrateFamily Biotic Index (IBI)

  16. Stream Monitoring StationYSI 6200 DCP Monitoring Equipment

  17. Dissolved Oxygen Fluctuations

  18. Dissolved Solids (conductance)

  19. The Fox River Valley

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