Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Effects of Management Legacies on Stream Fish and Aquatic Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages

  • Published:
Environmental Management Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Fish and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages often provide insight on ecological conditions for guiding management actions. Unfortunately, land use and management legacies can constrain the structure of biotic communities such that they fail to reflect habitat quality. The purpose of this study was to describe patterns in fish and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage structure, and evaluate relationships between biota and habitat characteristics in the Chariton River system of south-central Iowa, a system likely influenced by various potential management legacies (e.g., dams, chemical removal of fishes). We sampled fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates, and physical habitat from a total of 38 stream reaches in the Chariton River watershed during 2002–2005. Fish and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were dominated by generalist species tolerant of poor habitat quality; assemblages failed to show any apparent patterns with regard to stream size or longitudinal location within the watershed. Metrics used to summarize fish assemblages and populations [e.g., presence–absence, relative abundance, Index of Biotic Integrity for fish (IBIF)] were not related to habitat characteristics, except that catch rates of piscivores were positively related to the depth and the amount of large wood. In contrast, family richness of benthic macroinvertebrates, richness of Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, and Plecoptera taxa, and IBI values for benthic macroinvertebrates (IBIBM) were positively correlated with the amount of overhanging vegetation and inversely related to the percentage of fine substrate. A long history of habitat alteration by row-crop agriculture and management legacies associated with reservoir construction has likely resulted in a fish assemblage dominated by tolerant species. Intolerant and sensitive fish species have not recolonized streams due to downstream movement barriers (i.e., dams). In contrast, aquatic insect assemblages reflected aquatic habitat, particularly the amount of overhanging vegetation and fine sediment. This research illustrates the importance of using multiple taxa for biological assessments and the need to consider management legacies when investigating responses to management and conservation actions.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Angradi TR (1999) Fine sediment and macroinvertebrate assemblages in Appalachian streams: a field experiment with biomonitoring applications. J N Am Benthol Soc 18:49–66

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Armantrout NB (1998) Glossary of aquatic habitat inventory terminology. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda

    Google Scholar 

  • Blocksom KA, Johnson BR (2009) Development of a regional macroinvertebrate index for large river bioassessment. Ecol Indic 9:313–328

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bultena GL, Duffy M, Junst SE, Kanwar RS, Menzel BW, Misra MK, Singh P, Thompson JR, van der Valk A, Willham RL (1996) Effects of agricultural development on biodiversity: lessons from Iowa. In: Srivastava J, Smith N, Forno D (eds) Biodiversity and agricultural intensification: partners for development and conservation. The World Bank, Washington, DC, pp 80–94

    Google Scholar 

  • Burcher CL, Benfield EF (2006) Physical and biological responses of streams to suburbanization of historically agricultural watersheds. J N Am Benthol Soc 25:356–369

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burkhead NM (2012) Extinction rates in North American freshwater fishes, 1900-2010. Bioscience 62:798–808

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burras L, McLaughlin J (2002) Soil organic carbon in fields of switchgrass and row crops, as well as woodlots and pastures across the Chariton Valley, Iowa. Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Publication #400-46-76, Iowa State University, Ames

  • Cailteux RL, DeMong L, Finlayson BJ, Horton W, McClay W, Schnick RA, Thompson C (eds) (2001) Rotenone in fisheries: are the rewards worth the risks?. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda

    Google Scholar 

  • Campbell IC, Doeg TJ (1989) Impact of timber harvesting and production on streams: a review. Aust J Mar Freshw Res 40:519–539

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Carlisle DM, Hawkins CP, Meador MR, Potapova M, Falcone J (2008) Biological assessments of Appalachian streams based on predictive models for fish, macroinvertebrate, and diatom assemblages. J N Am Benthol Soc 27:16–37

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clarke RT, Furse MT, Wrigth JF, Moss D (1996) Derivation of the biological quality index for river sites: comparison of the observed with the expected fauna. J Appl Stat 23:311–332

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cuffney TF, Brightbill RA, May JT, Waite IR (2010) Responses of benthic macroinvertebrates to environmental changes associated with urbanization in nine metropolitan areas. Ecol Appl 20:1384–1401

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davis WS, Simon TP (eds) (1995) Biological assessment and criteria: tools for water resource planning and decision making. Lewis Press, Boca Raton

    Google Scholar 

  • Dudgeon D, Arthington AH, Gessner MO, Kawabata Z, Knowler DJ, Lévêque C, Naiman RJ, Prieur-Richard A, Soto D, Stiassny MLJ, Sullivan CA (2006) Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges. Biol Rev 81:163–182

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dynesius M, Nilsson C (1994) Fragmentation and flow regulation of river systems in the northern third of the world. Science 266:753–762

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Emery EB, Simon TP, McCormick FH, Angermeier PL, Deshon JE, Yoder CO, Sanders RE, Pearson WD, Hickman GD, Reash RJ, Thomas JA (2003) Development of a multimetric index for assessing the biological condition of the Ohio River. Trans Am Fish Soc 132:791–808

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fischer JR, Quist MC, Wigen SL, Schaefer AJ, Stewart TW, Isenhart TM (2010) Assemblage and population level responses of stream fish to riparian buffers at multiple spatial scales. Trans Am Fish Soc 139:185–200

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foster D, Swanson F, Aber J, Burke I, Brokaw N, Tilman D, Knapp A (2003) The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation. Bioscience 53:77–88

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Freeman PL, Schorr MS (2004) Influence of watershed urbanization on fine sediment and macroinvertebrate assemblage characteristics in Tennessee Ridge and Valley streams. J Freshw Ecol 19:353–362

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Freund JG, Petty JT (2007) Response of fish and macroinvertebrate bioassessment indices to water chemistry in a mined Appalachian watershed. Environ Manage 39:707–720

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gallant AL, Sadinski W, Roth MF, Rewa CA (2011) Changes in historical Iowa land cover as context for assessing the environmental benefits of current and future conservation efforts on agricultural lands. J Soil Water Conserv 66:67–77

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gido KB, Guy CS, Strakosh TR, Bernot RJ, Hase KJ, Shaw MA (2002) Long-term change in the fish assemblage of the Big Blue River basin 40 years after the construction of Tuttle Creek Reservoir. Trans Kansas Acad Sci 105:193–208

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harding JS, Benfield EF, Bolstad PV, Helfman GS, Jones EBD III (1998) Stream biodiversity: the ghost of land use past. Proc Natl Acad Sci 95:14843–14847

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Heino J (2010) Are indicator groups and cross-taxon congruence useful for predicting biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems? Ecol Indic 10:112–117

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heitke JD, Pierce CL, Gelwicks GT, Simmons GA, Siegwarth GL (2006) Habitat, land use, and fish assemblage relationships in Iowa streams: preliminary assessment in an agricultural landscape. In: Hughes RM, Wang L, Seelbach PW (eds) Landscape influences on stream habitats and biological assemblages. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 48, Bethesda, Maryland, pp 287–303

  • Herringshaw CJ, Stewart TW, Thompson JR, Anderson PF (2011) Land use, stream habitat and benthic invertebrate assemblages in a highly altered Iowa watershed. Am Midl Nat 165:274–293

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Iowa DNR (2013) Iowa’s 2012 integrated report—category 5: EPA approved Section 303(d) impaired waters. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Final Report, Des Moines

  • Isenhart TM, Schultz RC, Colletti JP (1997) Watershed restoration and agricultural practices in the Midwest: Bear Creek of Iowa. In: Williams JE, Wood CA, Dombeck MP (eds) Watershed restoration: principles and practices. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, pp 318–334

    Google Scholar 

  • Jackson DA, Peres-Neto PR, Olden JD (2001) What controls who is where in freshwater fish communities—the roles of biotic, abiotic, and spatial factors. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 58:157–170

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacquemin SJ, Pyron M (2011) Fishes of Indiana streams: current and historic assemblage structure. Hydrobiologia 665:39–50

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jelks HL, Walsh SL, Burkhead NM, Contreras-Balderas S, Díaz-Pardo E, Hendrickson DA, Lyons J, Mandrak NE, McCormick F, Nelson JS, Platania SP, Porter BA, Renaud CB, Schmitter-Soto JJ, Taylor EB, Warren ML Jr (2008) Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33:372–386

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jones KB, Neale AC, Nash MS, Van Remortel RD, Wickham JD, Riitters KH, O’Neill RV (2001) Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: a multiple watershed study from the United States mid-Atlantic region. Landsc Ecol 16:301–312

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jongman RHG, ter Braak CJF, Tongeren OFR (1995) Data analysis in community and landscape ecology. Cambridge University Press, New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Kaller MD, Hartman KJ (2004) Evidence of a threshold level of fine sediment accumulation for altering benthic macroinvertebrate communities. Hydrobiologia 518:95–104

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Karr JR, Toth LA, Dudley DR (1985) Fish communities of midwestern rivers: a history of degradation. Bioscience 35:90–95

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Karr JR, Fausch KD, Angermeier PL, Yant PR, Schlosser IJ (1986) Assessing biological integrity in running waters: a method and its rationale. Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication 5, Champaign

  • Kilgour BW, Barton DR (1999) Associations between stream fish and benthos across environmental gradients in southern Ontario, Canada. Freshw Biol 41:553–566

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lake PS, Bond N, Reich P (2007) Linking ecological theory with stream restoration. Freshw Biol 52:597–615

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lammert M, Allan JD (1999) Assessing biotic integrity of streams: effects of scale in measuring the influence of land use/cover and habitat structure on fish and macroinvertebrates. Environ Manage 23:257–270

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Litvan ME, Pierce CL, Stewart TW, Larson CJ (2008a) Fish assemblages in a western Iowa stream modified by grade control structures. N Am J Fish Manage 28:1398–1413

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Litvan ME, Stewart TW, Pierce CL, Larson CJ (2008b) Effects of grade control structures on the macroinvertebrate assemblage of an agriculturally impacted stream. River Res Appl 24:218–233

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Loan-Wilsey AK, Pierce CL, Kane KL, Brown PD, McNeely RL (2005) The Iowa aquatic gap project. Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Final Report, Iowa State University, Ames

  • Luttrell G, Echelle AA, Fisher WL, Eisenhour DJ (1999) Declining status of two species of the Macrhybopsis aestivalis complex (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in the Arkansas River basin and related effects of reservoirs as barriers to dispersal. Copeia 1999:981–989

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maloney KO, Weller DE (2011) Anthropogenic disturbance and streams: land use and land-use change affect stream ecosystems via multiple pathways. Freshw Biol 56:611–626

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maloney KO, Feminella JW, Mitchell RM, Miller SA, Mulholland PJ, Houser JN (2008) Land use legacies and small streams: identifying relationships between historical land use and contemporary stream conditions. J N Am Benthol Soc 27:280–294

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marsh-Matthews E, Matthews WJ (2000) Geographical, terrestrial and aquatic factors: which most influence the structure of stream fish assemblages in the midwestern United States? Ecol Freshw Fish 9:9–21

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Matthews WJ (1998) Patterns in freshwater fish ecology. Chapman and Hall, New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Mayhew J (1977) The effects of flood management regimes on larval fish and fish food organisms at Lake Rathbun. Technical Series 77-2, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines

  • McCune B, Grace JB (2002) Analysis of ecological communities. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller SW, Budy P, Schmidt JC (2010) Quantifying macroinvertebrate responses to in-stream habitat restoration: applications of meta-analysis to river restoration. Restor Ecol 18:8–19

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miranda LE, Bettoli PW (2010) Large reservoirs. In: Hubert WA, Quist MC (eds) Inland fisheries management in North America, 3rd edn. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, pp 545–586

    Google Scholar 

  • Mol JH, Ouboter PE (2004) Downstream effects of erosion from small-scale gold mining on the instream habitat and fish community of a small neotropical rainforest stream. Conserv Biol 18:201–214

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Opsomer JD, Botts C, Kim JY (2003) Small area estimation in a watershed erosion assessment survey. J Agric Biol Environ Stat 8:139–152

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Osborne LL, Kovacic DA (1993) Riparian vegetated buffer strips in water-quality restoration and stream management. Freshwater Biol 29:243–258

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paragamian VL (1977) Fish population development in two Iowa flood control reservoirs and the impact of fish stocking and floodwater management. Technical Series 77-1, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines

  • Parks TP (2013) Fish assemblages in Iowa’s nonwadeable rivers: historic changes in assemblage structure and relationships with natural and anthropogenic environmental characteristics. Master’s thesis. Iowa State University, Ames

  • Patton TM, Hubert WA (1993) Reservoirs on a Great Plains stream affect downstream habitat and fish assemblages. J Freshw Ecol 8:279–285

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Patton TM, Rahel FJ, Hubert WA (1998) Using historical data to assess changes in Wyoming’s fish fauna. Conserv Biol 12:1120–1128

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Quist MC, Guy CS (2001) Growth and mortality of prairie stream fishes: relations with fish community and instream habitat characteristics. Ecol Freshw Fish 10:88–96

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Quist MC, Hubert WA, Rahel FJ (2003) Exotic piscivorous fishes and reduced intermittence affect suckermouth minnows in a southeastern Wyoming stream. Intermt J Sci 9:62–65

    Google Scholar 

  • Quist MC, Hubert WA, Isaak DJ (2004a) Fish assemblage structure and relations with environmental conditions in a Rocky Mountain watershed. Can J Zool 82:1554–1565

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Quist MC, Hubert WA, Rahel FJ (2004b) Relations among habitat characteristics, exotic species, and turbid-river cyprinids in the Missouri River drainage of Wyoming. Trans Am Fish Soc 133:727–742

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Quist MC, Hubert WA, Rahel FJ (2005) Fish assemblage structure following impoundment of a Great Plains river. Western N Am Nat 65:53–63

    Google Scholar 

  • Rahel FJ, Hubert WA (1991) Fish assemblages and habitat gradients in a Rocky Mountain-Great Plains stream: biotic zonation and additive patterns of community change. Trans Am Fish Soc 120:319–332

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reid SM, Mandrak NE, Carl LM, Wilson CC (2008) Influence of dams and habitat condition on the distribution of redhorse (Moxostoma) species in the Grand River watershed, Ontario. Environ Biol Fish 81:111–125

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ricciardi A, Rasmussen JB (1999) Extinction rates of North American freshwater fauna. Conserv Biol 13:1220–1222

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Richter BD, Braun DP, Mendelson MA, Master LL (1997) Threats to imperiled freshwater fauna. Conserv Biol 11:1081–1093

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roni P, Beechie TJ, Bilby RE, Leonetti FE, Pollock MM, Pess GR (2002) A review of stream restoration techniques and a hierarchical strategy for prioritizing restoration in Pacific Northwest watershed. N Am J Fish Manage 22:1–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roni P, Hanson K, Beechie TJ (2008) Global review of the physical and biological effectiveness of stream habitat rehabilitation techniques. N Am J Fish Manage 28:856–890

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg DM, McCully P, Pringle CM (2000) Global-scale environmental effects of hydrological alterations: introduction. Bioscience 50:746–751

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roset N, Grenouillet G, Goffaux D, Pont D, Kestmont K (2007) A review of existing fish assemblage indicators and methodologies. Fish Manage Ecol 14:393–405

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • SAS Institute (2006) The SAS system for windows, version 9.2. SAS Institute, Cary

  • Schilling KE, Libra RD (2000) The relationship of nitrate concentrations in streams to row crop land use in Iowa. J Environ Qual 29:1846–1851

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Schlosser IJ (1982) Fish community structure and functioning along two habitat gradients in a headwater stream. Ecol Monogr 52:395–414

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Secchi S, Tyndall J, Schulte LA, Asbjornsen H (2008) Raising the stakes: high crop prices and conservation. J Soil Water Conserv 63:68A–73A

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sheldon AL (1968) Species diversity and longitudinal succession in stream fishes. Ecology 49:193–198

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Simon TP (1999) Assessing the sustainability and biological integrity of water resources using fish communities. CRC Press, Boca Raton

    Google Scholar 

  • Simonson TC, Lyons J, Kanehl PD (1994a) Guidelines for evaluating fish habitat in Wisconsin streams. U. S. Forest Service General Technical Report NC-164, Washington, DC

  • Simonson TC, Lyons J, Kanehl PD (1994b) Quantifying fish habitat in streams: transect spacing, sample size, and a proposed framework. N Am J Fish Manage 14:607–615

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Strayer DL, Dudgeon D (2010) Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future challenges. J N Am Benthol Soc 29:344–358

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Strayer DL, Beighley RE, Thompson LC, Brooks S, Nilsson C, Pinay G, Naiman RJ (2003) Effects of land cover on stream ecosystems: roles of empirical models and scaling issues. Ecosystems 6:407–423

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sundermann A, Stoll S, Haase P (2011) River restoration success depends on the species pool of the immediate surroundings. Ecol Appl 21:1962–1971

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tilma JS, Guy CS, Mammoliti CS (1998) Relations among habitat and population characteristics of spotted bass in Kansas streams. N Am J Fish Manage 18:886–893

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Utz RM, Hilderbrand RH, Boward DM (2009) Identifying regional difference in threshold responses of aquatic invertebrates to land cover gradients. Ecol Indic 9:556–567

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vannote RL, Minshall GW, Cummins KW, Sedell JR, Cushing CE (1980) The river continuum concept. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 37:130–137

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vondracek B, Blann KL, Cox CB, Nerbonne JF, Mumford KG, Nerbonne BA, Sovell LA, Zimmerman JKH (2005) Land use, spatial scale, and stream systems: lessons from an agricultural region. Environ Manage 36:775–791

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wagenhoff A, Townsend CR, Matthaei CD (2012) Macroinvertebrate responses along broad stressor gradients of deposited fine sediment and dissolved nutrients: a stream mesocosm experiment. J Appl Ecol 49:892–902

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Walters DM, Roy AH, Leigh DS (2009) Environmental indicators of macroinvertebrate and fish assemblage integrity in urbanizing watersheds. Ecol Indic 9:1222–1233

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Wang L, Lyons J, Kanehl P (1998) Development and evaluation of a habitat rating system for low-gradient Wisconsin streams. N Am J Fish Manage 18:775–785

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang L, Lyons J, Kanehl P (2001) Impacts of urbanization on stream habitat and fish across multiple spatial scales. Environ Manage 28:255–266

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Waters TF (ed) (1995) Sediment in streams. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda

    Google Scholar 

  • Wenger SJ, Peterson JT, Freeman MC, Freeman BJ, Homans DD (2008) Stream fish occurrence in response to impervious cover, historic land use, and hydrogeomorphic factors. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 65:1250–1264

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wiley RW (2008) The 1962 rotenone treatment of the Green River, Wyoming and Utah, revisited: lessons learned. Fisheries 33:611–617

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson HF, Xenopoulos MA (2008) Landscape influences on stream fish assemblages across spatial scales in a northern Great Plains ecoregion. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 65:245–257

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilton TF (2004) Biological assessment of Iowa’s wadeable streams. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Final Report, Des Moines

  • Winston MR, Taylor CM, Pigg J (1991) Upstream extirpation of four minnow species due to damming of a prairie stream. Trans Am Fish Soc 120:98–105

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yates AG, Bailey RC (2010) Covarying patterns of macroinvertebrate and fish assemblages along natural and human activity gradients: implications for bioassessment. Hydrobiologia 637:87–100

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yoder CO, Rankin ET (1995) Biological criteria program development and implementation in Ohio. In: Davis WS, Simon TP (eds) Biological assessment and criteria: tools for water resource planning and decision making. Lewis Press, Boca Raton, pp 109–144

    Google Scholar 

  • Zar JH (2010) Biostatistical analysis, 5th edn. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River

    Google Scholar 

  • Zimmerman JKH, Covich AP (2003) Distribution of juvenile crabs (Epilobocera sinuatrifrons) in two Puerto Rican headwater streams: effects of pool morphology and past land-use legacies. Archiv für Hydrobiol 158:343–357

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zimmerman JKH, Vondracek B, Westra J (2003) Agricultural land use effects on sediment loading and fish assemblages in two Minnesota (USA) watersheds. Environ Manage 32:93–105

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zohrer JJ (2005) Securing a future for fish and wildlife: a conservation legacy for Iowans. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa Wildlife Action Plan Report, Des Moines

  • Zweig LD, Rabeni CF (2001) Biomonitoring for deposited sediment using benthic invertebrates: a test on 4 Missouri streams. J N Am Benthol Soc 20:643–657

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We thank B. Dodd for assistance with data collection. We thank A. Roy, J. Walrath, and three anonymous reviewers for providing helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. Funding for this project was provided through Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration. The Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is jointly sponsored by the University of Idaho, U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and Wildlife Management Institute. The use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA

    Michael C. Quist

  2. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 24570 U.S. Highway 34, Chariton, IA, 50049, USA

    Randall D. Schultz

Authors
  1. Michael C. Quist
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Randall D. Schultz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Michael C. Quist.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Quist, M.C., Schultz, R.D. Effects of Management Legacies on Stream Fish and Aquatic Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages. Environmental Management 54, 449–464 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-014-0309-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-014-0309-8

Keywords

Search

Navigation