Water Quality in the Western Lake Michigan Drainages, Wisconsin and Michigan, 1992-95
In another study, USGS and WDNR data bases describing benthic macroinvertebrate communities in streams in the study area were paired with water-chemistry data to determine whether the data bases predicted water-quality conditions similarly. On the basis of the limited paired data available, the two data bases were shown to predict water-quality similarly using HBI (Lenz, 1997). However, results also indicated that benthic invertebrate data collected at different seasons should not be combined when using the data for water-quality assessments.
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