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An Examination Of The Effects Of Land Use And Land Cover On Macroinvertebrate Communities At Two Landscape Scales, Tanya Sulikowski
An Examination Of The Effects Of Land Use And Land Cover On Macroinvertebrate Communities At Two Landscape Scales, Tanya Sulikowski
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Macroinvertebrate community composition and differing patterns of land use/ land cover (LULC) were assessed in three watersheds of northern New Jersey. A total of six 40-m reaches were sampled in the agriculturally dominated Wallkill, the urbanized Rockaway and the forested Flat Brook. Qualitative observations and scorings of ten habitat factors commonly associated with stream health and water quality were made at each site. These Habitat Assessments resulted in the two Flat Brook sites being rated as “optimal” and the remaining four sites being rated as “suboptimal”. The 2007 NJDEP Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) dataset was used to determine percent urban, …