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Title: Restoring Life in Running Waters: Better Biological Monitoring by James R. Karr, Ellen W. Chu ISBN: 1-55963-674-2 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Invaluable for those concerned about fish habitat
Comment: This book provides a functional, usable set of guidelines to consider when working on fisheries habitat and stream rehabilitation problems. Although it is oriented towards the American environmental processes - EPA etc, the background concepts and information should be required reading for everyone who is involved in both environmental monitoring and assessment, and those who are involved in trying to bring back stream habitat that has been lost.
Useful for a much broader audience than originally targetted. For instance Community Stewardship groups here in BC have found it most useful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Informative, thorough, and interesting
Comment: A very informative, thorough, and interesting coverage of the topic. Very well written and an enjoyable read. I especially liked the presentation of the "chapters" as "premises."
Advocacy is one theme of this book, but I didn't find that objectionable. As a former professional in the regulatory field, I think it is important for people with opinions to express them!
This book is really a must-read for people working on any aspect of biological monitoring of aquatic systems.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent strategy & advice; slightly one-dimensional
Comment: Karr & Chu provide compelling arguments for the inclusion of reasoned biomonitoring efforts in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of aquatic ecosystems. This is long-overdue. Their desire for biological relevance above and beyond statistical significance is also laudable, reminding me of a dear mentor's constant advice: "But what do the numbers *mean* biologically??" It is an extremely well documented book as well, providing ample resources for further scholarly investigation of related topics. I laud their eagerness to create biological relevance and move beyond standard statistical distributions by brute biological common sense. Their approach is clearly robust, time-effective, and biologically relevant - an excellent combination for real-world environmental management decisions! I do, however, find the authors' quite one-dimensional focus on the use of single "multimetric indices" to be limiting in the practice of aquatic EIA. (Multimetric indices are sums of individual indices, each measuring a different ecological factor.) I fear that the same mathematical machinations which make Karr & Chu's methods robust may also make them insensitive to subtle biological changes. They might contend that robust management considerations render subtle biological changes irrelevant; I would argue that subtle change over time can be at least as powerful as quantum, near-instantaneous changes. The author's methods are also constrained by the fact that the a significant effort is expended in calibration, which may be fine and justified for future studies, but may be of little help for projects currently "in-hand." In conclusion, I would definitely recommend this book as a required read in aquatic biomonitoring strategies, but I will continue to examine my data in more statistically conventional ways as well as through multimetric indices --- I'm not likely to throw out the entire old toolbox for the addition of one new tool, after all, and all the multimetric indices in the world won't do a jot of good without sound experimental design practices.
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Title: The Biology of Streams and Rivers (Biology of Habitats) by Paul S. Giller, Bjorn Malmqvist ISBN: 0198549776 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $44.50 |
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Title: Streams: Their Ecology and Life by C. Cushing, J. Allan ISBN: 0120503409 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $52.95 |
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Title: Methods in Stream Ecology by F. Hauer, Gary Lamberti ISBN: 012332906X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea, 4th Edition by Douglas Grant Smith ISBN: 0471358371 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $130.00 |
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Title: Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters by J. David Allan ISBN: 0412355302 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $66.00 |
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