Urban Ecology

Session 109 (Poster)
Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 PM-5:00 PM, SRC

(562) The impact of adjacent detention ponds on the benthic index of biological integrity of two surburban streams in Surrey, B.C .
M.A. Boucher and B.J. Moon. Department of Biology, University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, B.C., Canada V2S 7M9

(563) Changes in the benthic macroinvertebrate community of an urban stream during active channel degradation.
M.D. Carter¹ and S.C. Mozley². ¹Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27606, ²Department of Zoology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27606

(564) Diversity and phenology of Chironomidae in a highly impacted urban stream.
S.E. Gresens¹ and L.C. Ferrington, Jr.². ¹Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, U.S.A. 21252, ²Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, U.S.A. 55108

(565) Complementary Approaches to Watershed Assessment.
S.M Lussier¹, S. DaSilva², R.W. Enser³, M. Charpentier⁴, S.M. Cormier⁵, and D.J. Klemm⁵. ¹USEPA, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effect Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, ²Univ. of RI, Kingston, RI 02881, ³RI Department of Environmental Management,Providence, RI 02908, ⁴CSC, c/o USEPA, Narragansett, RI 02882, ⁵USEPA, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecological Exposure Research Division, Cincinnati. OH

(566) Modeling land–use impacts on stream macroinvertebrate richness.
J.B. Pollock. Aquatic Biology Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

(567) Post-exposure feeding inhibition of the Oligochaete, Lumbriculus variegatus as a bioassay response to assess sediment toxicity in-situ.
P. Williams¹, D.J. Baird², F. Wrona³, and J.M. Culp². ¹Institute of Aquaculture, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K., FK9 4LA, ²National Water Research Institute (Environment Canada) and Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N. B. Canada, ³National Hydrology Research Centre, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, Canada