Physical and biological responses of streams to suburbanization of historically agriculture watersheds. Burcher, C. L. & Benfield, E. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 2006.
Physical and biological responses of streams to suburbanization of historically agriculture watersheds. [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
We investigated whether suburbanization influenced the physical and biological characteristics of ten 3rd-or 4th-order streams that drain historically agricultural watersheds in the southern Appalachians near Asheville, North Carolina. Five watersheds had areas of recent suburban development proximal to stream sites, and 5 watersheds were not currently undergoing suburban development. We estimated 5 hydrological, 10 geomorphological, 6 erosional, and 3 depositional (i.e., substrate) variables, and 13 fish and 8 macroinvertebrate metrics in the study sites. We used Student

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