Performance of National Maps of Watershed Integrity at Watershed Scales.

ABSTRACT: Watershed integrity, the capacity of a watershed to support and maintain ecological processes essential to the sustainability of services provided to society, can be influenced by a range of landscape and in-stream factors. Ecological response data from four intensively monitored case study watersheds exhibiting a range of environmental conditions and landscape characteristics across the United States were used to evaluate the performance of a national level Index of Watershed Integrity (IWI) at regional and local watershed scales. Using Pearson's correlation coefficient (r), and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r_s ), response variables displayed highly significant relationships and were significantly correlated with IWI and ICI (Index of Catchment Integrit

SUBMITTER: Kuhn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6071426 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature