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Feasibility of combining two aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate community databases for water-quality assessment

Bernard N. Lenz
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An important part of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program is the analysis of existing data in each of the NAWQA study areas. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has an extensive aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate communities in streams (benthic invertebrates) database maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. This database has data which date back to 1984 and includes data from streams within the Western Lake Michigan Drainages (WMIC) study area (fig. 1). This report looks at the feasibility of USGS scientists supplementing the data they collect with data from the WDNR database when assessing water quality in the study area.

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Source-reported bounding extent: 43.12504316740127° to 45.24395342262324° latitude; -89.71435546875° to -86.912841796875° longitude. This indicates report coverage, not an exact sampling location. View area on OpenStreetMap.

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Bernard N. Lenz. 1997. Feasibility of combining two aquatic benthic macroinvertebrate community databases for water-quality assessment. https://doi.org/10.3133/fs13297

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