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Winter And Spring Water Quality Of The Big Creek Watershed, Craighead County, Arkansas: Nutrients, Habitat, And Macroinvertebrates, Alan D. Christian, Jennifer L. Bouldin, Nate A. Bickford, Samuel B. Mccord, Aboubakar Sako, Jerry L. Farris, Lynn Kanieski, Ashley Mcbride
Winter And Spring Water Quality Of The Big Creek Watershed, Craighead County, Arkansas: Nutrients, Habitat, And Macroinvertebrates, Alan D. Christian, Jennifer L. Bouldin, Nate A. Bickford, Samuel B. Mccord, Aboubakar Sako, Jerry L. Farris, Lynn Kanieski, Ashley Mcbride
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
The objective of this study was to assess the water quality of the Big Creek watershed during the winter and spring of 2002 by analyzing water physical, chemical variables, aquatic macro-invertebrates, and habitat. The Big Creek watershed, arising on Crowley's Ridge in northeast Arkansas, is a small deltaic watershed and is an area of intense cultivation. Four stations, Big Creek Upper (BCU), Mud Creek (MC),Lost Creek (LC), and Big Creek Lower (BCL) were established for this study from Big Creek, Mud Creek and Lost Creek. Water samples were collected on a weekly basis for 10 weeks from January 2002 through …