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This book examines the application of fish community characteristics to evaluate the sustainability and biological integrity of freshwaters. Topics include perspectives on use of fish communities as environmental indicators in program development, collaboration, and partnership forming; influence of specific taxa on assessment of the IBI; regional applications for areas where the IBI had not previously been developed; and specific applications of the IBI developed for coldwater streams, inland lakes, Great Lakes, reservoirs, and tailwaters.

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• Foreword
• Perspectives
• Introduction: Biological Integrity and Use of Ecological Health Concepts for Application to Water Resource Characterization
• Using Fish Assemblages in a State Biological Assessment and Criteria Program: Essential Concepts and Considerations
• Collaboration, Compromise, and Conflict: How to Form Partnerships in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring
• Historical Biogeography, Ecology, and Fish Distributions: Conceptual Issues for Establishing IBI Criteria
• Applications of IBI Concepts and Metrics to Waters Outside the United States
• Guild and Metrics Determination
• Assessment of Balon's Reproductive Guilds with Application to Midwest North American Freshwater Fishes
• Towards a United Definition of Guild Structure of North American Freshwater Fishes
• Influence of the Family Catostomidae on Metrics Developed for a Great Rivers Index of Biotic Integrity
• The Use of External Deformities, Erosion, Lesion, and Tumors (DELT Anomalies) in Fish Assemblages for Characterizing Aquatic Resources: A Case Study of Seven Ohio Streams
• Regional Applications of IBI
• Effects of Drainage Basin Size and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Relations between Stream Size and IBI Metrics in Virginia
• Characteristics of Fish Assemblages and Environmental Conditions in Streams of the Upper Snake River Basin, Idaho and Western Wyoming
• Classification of Freshwater Fishes of the Northeastern United States for Uses in the Development of Indices of Biological Integrity, with Regional Applications
• Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity for the Species Depauperate Red River of North, Minnesota and North Dakota
• Applications of Indices of Biotic Integrity to California Streams and Watersheds
• Application to Freshwater Resource Types Other than Wadable Warmwater Streams
• Development and Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Coldwater Streams of the Upper Midwestern United States
• Biological Monitoring and an IBI for Lake Erie's Nearshore Waters
• Consideration for Characterizing Large River Habitats
• Applying and Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Great River Fish Communities: Considerations in Sampling and Interpretation
• Tailwater IBI Development for the Tennessee River
• Reservoir Fishery Assessment Index Development: A Tool for Assessing Ecological Health in Tennessee Valley Authority Impoundments
• Toward the Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Inland Lakes in Wisconsin
• Considerations for Lakes in the Northeastern United States
• Data Validation
• Relations Between Fish Metrics and Measures of Anthropogenic Disturbance in Three IBI Regions in Virginia
• Scoring Modifications for Ensuring Meaningful Results
• Methods for Deriving Maximum Species Richness Lines and Other Threshold Relationships in Biological Field Data
• A subecoregional Scale Watershed Assessment: Integrating Fish Community Assessments with Macroinvertebrate Assemblage and Physical Habitat Data, Pennsylvania

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