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Land Use As An Indicator Of Stream Habitat Quality In Salt Creek, Adam Brown
Land Use As An Indicator Of Stream Habitat Quality In Salt Creek, Adam Brown
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
This study sought to quantify land use types in Lancaster County and identify which, if any, environmental parameters were significantly influencing fish and invertebrate distribution in the Salt Creek basin. Historical sampling data were obtained from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. Watershed land cover maps were created and the percentages of urban/developed, forested, row crop, and grassland use were calculated. This data was combined with NDEQ water quality parameter, fish, and invertebrate sampling data to conduct nonmetric multidimensional scaling. This analysis did not provide significant conclusions about the driving force of fish and invertebrate distribution in this region because …