HR: 1330h
AN: NB33B-12    [Abstracts]
TI: Comparison of the Biological Health of two Second Order Streams
AU: * Knobbe, N J
EM: njk431@mizzou.edu
AF: University of Missouri-Columbia, 208 Tucker Hall, Columbia, MO 65201 United States
AU: Weaver, D
EM: weaverjc@missouri.edu
AF: University of Missouri-Columbia, 208 Tucker Hall, Columbia, MO 65201 United States
AB: Similarly to other towns, Columbia, Missouri is experiencing growth through the development of its outlying land. The future development of 500 acres of land that span two second order stream's watersheds produces the possibility of significant altering of the biological structure of these streams. In order to show this change, benthic macroinvertebrates were collected in order to determine the current ecological structure of the stream. The streams have both similar topography and stream bed composition, allowing for straightforward comparison. Four sample sites on each stream were chosen and samples from each stream taken in November, January, and March of 2004-2005. This paper attempts to compare the biological health of these streams using the benthic macroinvertebrate ecological structure found through the sampling.
DE: 4815 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
DE: 9901 NABS Student Award - Basic Research
SC: North American Benthological Society [NB]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly