1. 630.530.3046
      2. EXHIBIT
      3. WRITTEN TESTIMONY OF ROBERT J. SHEEHAN
      4. I. Professional Credentials:
      5. II. Justification
      6. V. Mussels
      7. Literature Cited

DENNIS STREICHER
City of Elmhurst, Illinois
209 North York Street
Elmhurst, Illinois 60126
630.530.3046
EDUCATION and
CERTIFICATION
B.S. in Biology from Northern Illinois University.
Illinois Class 1 Sewage Treatment Works Operator
Illinois Class “A” Public Water Supply Operator
WORK
EXPERIENCE
City of Elmhurst, May 1972 to present
1972-1 981
WWTP Chemist
1981-1982
Assistant Superintendent
1982-1990
Superintendent
1991-2000
Assistant Director of Public Works/Water and
Wastewater.
2000-Present
Director of Water & Wastewater
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Member of the A.W.W.A.
Member Water Environment Federation
Member of Central States Water Environment Assoc.
Chairman of the Central States Education Committee
Past president of the Central States Illinois Section
Vice-president of the Illinois Association of Wastewater Agencies
Served as the northeast representative on the Operators
Certification Committee for six years.
AWARDS
2000 Illinois EPA Operator of the Year
1996 CSWEA Operations Award
INTERESTS
Active in local environmental groups especially bird watching
(birding) organizations. Wildlife photography especially birds in
wild habitats. Natural history studies.

April 2, 2004
Mr. Dennis P. McKenna
Deputy Administrator
Illinois Department ofAgriculture
P.O. Box 19281
Springfield, IL 62794-928 1
Re: Illinois Association ofWastewater Agencies Dissolved Oxygen Study
Dear Dennis,
As a follow up on our conversation of April 1, 2004, I’d like to thank you for your
interest in the Illinois Association Wastewater Agencies (IAWA) dissolved oxygen study.
As you are aware IAWA is very interested in implementing this study and modifying the
Illinois water quality standards as regards to dissolved oxygen. It is our opinion that
many other water quality standards will be enhanced by a scientifically well founded
dissolved oxygen standard in Illinois. We feel the study has followed closelythe USEPA
protocols and builds upon the previous water quality standard. In addition it incorporates
the special features ofthe Illinois warm water chemistry. Note that the study specifically
excludes Lake Michigan and wetlands from consideration for DO limits changes.
The IAWA commissioned this study with the goal ofincorporating a previous study by
Chapman in 1986; then adding new data that has been developed since that time. The
final draft will then make recommendations to modify Illinois water quality standards for
DO based on natural fluctuations in aquatic systems and physiological tolerances of
native aquatic life. The most significant recommendations are the incorporation ofseven
day running averages for the mean and minimum DO concentrations. The mean would be
7-d mean of6.0 mgIL when most early life stages offish are present and a 7-d mean
minimum of4.0 mg/L when most early life stages offish are absent. This feature alone
adds significantly to the standards as it recognizes the seasonality ofthe natural aquatic
systems in Illinois. The recommended standards are either equivalent to ormore
conservative than the previously established national dissolved oxygen standards.
I have transmitted a copy ofthe report to you; we would appreciate your thoughts on the
study. Also, please don’t hesitate to share the study with others in the agricultural
communities to elicit their responses as well. The goal ofJAWA is to include comments
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ofall interested stakeholders. Further we wish to sure that the concerns of the agricultural
community are answered before the JAWA makes the move to ask the pollution control
board to modify the standards in Illinois.
Once again it was enjoyable speaking with you and if you have any questions don’t
hesitate to give me a call at (630)
530-3046.
Sincerely,
Dennis Streicher
Director ofWater & Wastewater
630.530.3046
office
630.834.0298 fax
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IAWA DO file

June 14, 2004
Ms. Nancy Erickson
Director ofNatural and Environmental Research
Illinois Farm Bureau
1701 Towanda Avenue
Bloomington, IL 61701
Re:
Illinois Association ofWastewater Agencies Dissolved Oxygen Study
IPCB DocketNumber R04-25
Dear Ms. Erickson,
As a follow up to our conversation ofMay 25, 2004, I’d like to thank you for your
interest in the Illinois Association Wastewater Agencies (IAWA) dissolved oxygen study.
Earlier in April of2004 I had transmitted a copy ofthe study to you for comments.
As you are aware IAWA is very interested in implementing this study and modifying the
Illinois water quality standards as regards to dissolved oxygen. It is our opinion that
many other water quality standards will be enhanced by a scientifically well founded
dissolved oxygen standard in Illinois. We feel the study has followed closely the USEPA
protocols and builds upon the previous water quality standard. In addition it incorporates
the special features ofthe Illinois warm water chemistry. Note that the study specifically
excludes Lake Michigan and wetlands from consideration for DO limits changes.
The JAWA commissioned this study with the goal of incorporating a previous study by
Chapman in 1986; then adding new data that has been developed since that time. The
final draft will then make recommendations to modify Illinois water quality standards for
DO based on natural fluctuations in aquatic systems and physiological tolerances of
native aquatic life. The most significant recommendations are the incorporation ofseven
day running averages forthe mean and minimum DO concentrations. The mean would be
7-d mean of6.0 mgIL when most early life stages of fish are present and a 7-d mean
minimum of 4.0 mg/L when most early life stages of fish are absent. This feature alone
adds significantly to the standards as it recognizes the seasonality ofthe natural aquatic
systems in Illinois. The recommended standards are either equivalent to or more
conservative than the previously established national dissolved oxygen standards.

At this time the TAWA has filed a petition with the Illinois Pollution Control Board
(IPCB) to incorporate the studies results into Illinois general use water standards. The
TPCB has agreed to hear the petition and has set dates in June and August to receive
testimony from interested stakeholders. We would appreciate your thoughts on the study.
Also, please don’t hesitate to share the study with others in the agricultural communities
to elicit their responses as well. The goal of JAWA is to include comments ofall
interested stakeholders.
Once again it was enjoyable speaking with you and if you have any questions don’t
hesitate to give me a call at (630) 530-3046.
Sincerely,
Dennis Streicher
Director of Water & Wastewater
630.530.3046 office
630.834.0298 fax
Cc:
IAWA DO file

April 2, 2004
Alec Messina
IL Environmental Regulatory Group
3150 Roland Avenue
Springfield, IL 62703
Re: Illinois Association ofWastewater Agencies Dissolved Oxygen Study
Dear Alec,
As a follow up on ourconversation ofApril 2, 2004, I’d like to thank you for your
interest in the Illinois Association Wastewater Agencies (TAWA) dissolved oxygen study.
As you are aware TAWA is very interested in implementing this study and modifying the
Illinois water quality standards as regards to dissolved oxygen. It is our opinion that
many other water quality standards will be enhanced by a scientifically well founded
dissolved oxygen standard in Illinois. We feel the study has followed closely the USEPA
protocols and builds upon the previous water quality standard. In addition it incorporates
the special features ofthe Illinois warm water chemistry. Note that the study specifically
exciudes Lake Michigan and wetlands from consideration for DO limits changes.
The IAWA commissioned this study with the goal ofincorporating a previous study by
Chapman in 1986; then adding new data that has been developed since that time. The
final draft will then make recommendations to modify Illinois water quality standards for
DO based on natural fluctuations in aquatic systems and physiological tolerances of
native aquatic life. The most significant recommendations are the incorporation ofseven
day running averages for the mean and minimum DO concentrations. The mean would be
7-d mean of6.0 mg/L when most early life stages offish are present and a 7-d mean
minimum of4.0 mgIL when most early life stages offish are absent. This feature alone
adds significantly to the standards as it recognizes the seasonality ofthe natural aquatic
systems in Illinois. The recommended standards are either equivalent to or more
conservative than the previously established national dissolved oxygen standards.
I have transmitted a copy ofthe report to you; we would appreciate your thoughts on the
study. Also, please don’t hesitate to share the study with others that you represent to elicit
their responses as well. The goal of IAWA is to include comthents of all interested

stakeholdèrs. Further we wish to sure that the concerns ofthe industrial discharger
community are answered before the JAWA makes the move to ask the pollution control
board to modify the standards in Illinois.
Once again it was enjoyable speaking with you and if you have any questions don’t
hesitate to give me a call at (630) 530-3046.
Sincerely,
Dennis Streicher
Director ofWater & Wastewater
630.530.3046 Office
630.834.0298 fax
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IAWA DO file

April 12, 2004
Dr. Edward Krug
Illinois State Water Survey
2204 Griffith Dr
Champaign, IL 61820
Re: Illinois Association ofWastewater Agencies Dissolved Oxygen Study
Dear Dr. Krug,
As a follow up on our conversation ofApril 12, 2004, I’d like to thank you for your
interest in the Illinois Association Wastewater Agencies (IAWA) dissolved oxygen study.
As you are aware JAWA is very interested in implementing this study and modifying the
Illinois water quality standards as regards to dissolved oxygen. It is our opinionthat
many other water quality standards will be enhanced by a scientifically well founded
dissolved oxygen standard in Illinois. We feel the study has followed closely the USEPA
protocols and builds upon the previous water quality standard. In addition it incorporates
the special features ofthe Illinois warm water chemistry. Note that the study specifically
excludes Lake Michigan and wetlands from consideration for DO limits changes.
The IAWA commissioned this study with the goal ofincorporating a previous study by
Chapman in 1986; then adding new data that has been developed since that time. The
final draft will then make recommendations to modify Illinois water quality standards for
DO based on natural fluctuations in aquatic systems and physiological tolerances of
native aquatic life. The most significant recommendations are the incorporation of seven
day running averages for the mean and minimum DO concentrations. The mean would be
7-d mean of 6.0 mgIL when most early life stages offish are present and a 7-dmean
minimum of4.0 mgIL when most early life stages of fish are absent. This feature alone
adds significantly to the standards as it recognizes the seasonality ofthe natural aquatic
systems in Illinois. The recommended standards are either equivalent to or more
conservative than the previously established national dissolved oxygen standards.
I have transmitted a copy ofthe report to you; we would appreciate your thoughts on the
study. Also, please don’t hesitate to share the study with others that you represent to elicit
theirresponses as well. The goal ofIAWA is to include comments ofall interested
stakeholders. Further we wish to sure that the concerns ofthe industrial discharger

community are answered before the JAWA makes the move to ask the pollution control
board to modify the standards in Illinois.
Once again it was enjoyable speaking with you and if you have any questions don’t
hesitate to give me a call at (630) 530-3046.
Sincerely,
Dennis Streicher
Director ofWater & Wastewater
630.530.3046 Office
630.834.0298 fax
Cc:
IAWA DO file

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James E. Garvey 1
Short Curriculum Vita
Name
James E. Garvey
Title
Assistant Professor
Address
Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center
Department ofZoology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
jgarvey~siu.edu
http://www.science.siu.edu/zoology/garvey/index.html
Degrees
1997 Ph.D., Zoology, The Ohio State University, Ohio
1992 M.S., Zoology, The Ohio State University, Ohio
1990 B.A.,
cum laude,
Zoology, Miami University, Ohio
Experience
2000-
Assistant Professor, Department ofZoology, Southern Illinois
University
1998-2000 Assistant Professor, Division ofBiology, Kansas State University
1997-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department ofBiology, Queen=s University,
Ontario
1997
Research Associate, Department of Zoology, The Ohio State
University
1996-1997 Presidential Fellow, Graduate School, The Ohio State University
1990-1996 Graduate Research Associate, Department ofZoology, The Ohio
State University
1990-1996 Graduate Teaching Associate, Department ofZoology, The Ohio
State University
1988-1990 Research Technician, Department ofZoology, Miami University
1988
Student Researcher, School for Field Studies, St. John, U.S. Virgin
Islands
Fields ofResearch Competence
Aquatic ecology, fish ecology, basic an4 applied fish biology, limnology, food
web dynamics, bioenergetics, life history modeling
Honors and Awards
2001 Best Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting ofthe Illinois Chapter ofthe
American Fisheries Society, February 2001
2000 Best Oral Presentation, 2000 Annual Meeting ofthe Kansas Chapter ofthe
American Fisheries Society, Manhattan, Kansas
1999 Article titled ACompetition between larval fishes in reservoirs: the role of
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relative timing of appearance@ (co-author, R.A. Stein) was among
5
nominated by a selection committee for Best Paper in Transactions ofthe
American Fisheries Society (out of—100 articles)
1999 American Society ofLimnology and Oceanography=s DIALOG III
Symposium, Bermuda, October 1999
1998 Graduate Faculty Status, Kansas State University, November 1998
1996 Best Poster, Annual Meeting ofthe American Fisheries Society, Dearborn,
Michigan, August 1996
1996 University Presidential Fellowship, July 1996
1995
Honorable Mention, Best Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting ofthe
American Fisheries Society, Tampa, Florida, August 1995
Student Awards
2004 Dean Sherman, Honorable Mention, Best Poster Award, Undergraduate
Research Forum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 2004
2004 Laura Csoboth, Student Travel Award, Illinois American Fisheries Society
Meeting, Champaign, Illinois, March 2004
Selected Professional Service (last five years)
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2004
Reviewer, National Science Foundation proposal, Ecology Panel
(RUT proposal)
2004
Member, Skinner Award Committee, American Fisheries Society
(second term)
2004
North Central Representative, Early Life History Section,
American Fisheries Society.
2003
Workshop Presenter, Analysis ofFisheries Data, Illinois Chapter
ofthe American Fisheries Society Continuing Education
Workshop, Springfield, Illinois, April 2003
2003
Moderator, River Session, Illinois Chapter ofthe American
Fisheries Society, Rend Lake,.IL, February 2003
2002
Reviewer, National Science Foundation proposal, Ecology Panel,
August 2002
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2002
Chair, Student Judging ofOral Presentations, National American
Fisheries Society Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, August 2002
2002-present Associate Editor,
Transactions ofthe American Fisheries Society
(handle
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10 manuscripts per year)
2001-2003
Judge, Regional Science Fair, SIUC campus, February 2001-2003
1999-2001
Member, Skinner Award Committee, American Fisheries Society
(first term)
2001
Reviewer, National Science Foundation proposal, EcologyPanel,
February 2001
2001
Moderator, Fisheries Session, Illinois Renewable Natural
Resources Meeting, February 2001
2000
Judge, Student Paper Pre~entations,American Fisheries Society
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National Meeting, August 2000
1994-present Peer Reviewer,
Behaviour, Biological Invasions, Canadian
Journal ofZoology Transactions ofthe American Fisheries
Society, North American Journal ofFisheries Management,
Ecology, Ecological Applications, Great Basin Naturalist,
American Midland Naturalist, Prairie Naturalist, Journal of
Plankton Research, Animal Behaviour, Journal of the North
American Benthological Society, Northwest Science, North
American Journal ofAquaculture, Proceedings of the Royal
Academy ofScience —Great Britain
Current Society Memberships
2003-present
Honorary Member, American Institute ofBiological
Sciences
1990-present
Ecological Society ofAmerica
1990-present
American Fisheries Society
1990-1996,
North American Benthological Society
1999-present
2001-present
Illinois Chapter ofthe American Fisheries Society
1999-present
Full Member, Sigma Xi
Invited Presentations
2003 Upper Mississippi Conservation Committee, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin,
August 2003
2002 Ecology Consortium, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, November
2002
2000 Sam Parr Biological Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, June 2000
2000 Northeast Division Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, April 2000
2000 Department ofZoology, University ofWisconsin
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Madison, February
2000
1999 Department ofBiology, William Jewell College, Missouri, September
1999
1998 Department ofBiology, Queen=s University, Kingston, Ontario, January
1998
1997 Apple Valley Fishing Club, Apple Valley, Ohio, October 1997
1996 Department ofBiological Sciences, University ofPittsburgh, December
1996.
Technical Reports
Carvey, J.E., and M.R Whiles. 2003. An assessment ofnational and Illinois dissolved
oxygen water quality criteria. Illinois Association ofWastewater Agencies. 52
pages
Garvey, J.E., B.D. Dugger, M.R. Whiles, S.R. Adams, M.B. Flinn, B.M. Burr, and R.J.
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Sheehan. 2003. Responses of fish, waterbirds, invertebrates, vegetation, and
water quality to environmental pool management: Mississippi River Pool 25.
U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers. 181 pages.
Garvey,
J.E. 2002. Winter habitat used by fishes in Smithiand Pool, Ohio River. U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers, 90 pages.
Garvey, J.E., and R.J. Sheehan. 2001. Winter habitat associations ofriverine fishes:
predictions for the Ohio River, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army
Corps ofEngineers, 39 pages.
Garvey,
J.E.,
R.A. Wright, R.A. Stein, E.M. Lewis, K.H. Ferry, and S.M. Micucci. 1998.
Assessing the influence ofsize on overwinter survival of largemouth bass in Ohio
on-stream impoundments. Ohio Division ofWildlife Final Report. Federal Aid
in Sport Fish Restoration Program 29, 288 pages.
Stein, R.A., and
J.E.
Garvey. 1996. A review ofa technical report prepared for the
Cuyahoga River (Ohio) Community Planning Organization by EnvironScience
Inc.
Theses and Dissertations
Garvey, J.E. 1997. Strong interactors and community structure: testing predictions for
reservoir food webs, Ph.D. dissertation, 235 pages.
Garvey, J.E. 1992. Selective predation as a mechanism ofcrayfish species replacement
in northern Wisconsin lakes. M.S. thesis, The Ohio State University, 88 pages.
Book Chapters
S.R. Chipps, and J.E. Garvey. In press. Assessment offood habits and feeding patterns.
In
M.L. Brawn and C.S. Guy, editors. Analysis and Interpretation ofFreshwater
Fisheries Data. 41 MS pages, 2 tables, 4 figures, 13 boxes. 1 April 2001.
Book Reviews
Garvey,
J.E.
2003. Searching for scales in fisheries. Reviewof “Hierarchical
Perspectives on Marine Complexities: Searching for Systems in the Gulfof
Maine” by Spencer ApOllonio. Columbia University Press, New York. 2002.
229 pp. Appeared in BioScience 53(10):1004-1006. (Invited)
Peer-Reviewed Publications (Selected Abstracts at
h.ttp://www.science. siu
.
edu/zoology/garvey/pubs.html)
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Garvey, J~E.,K.G. Ostrand, and D.H. Wahl. In press. Interactions among allometric
scaling, predation and ration affect size-dependent growth and mortality offish
during winter. Ecology. Aug. 2003.
Ostrand, K.G., S.J. Cooke, J.E. Garvey, and D.H. Wahi. In press. The energetic impact
of overwinter prey assemblages on age-0 largemouth bass. Environmental
Biology ofFishes.
Colombo, R.E., P.S. Wills, and
J.E. Garvey.
2004. Use ofultrasound imaging to
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determine sex ofshovelnose sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
from the
Middle Mississippi River. North American Journal ofFisheries Management
24:322-326.
Roberts, M.R., JE. Wetzel, III, R.C. Brooks, and J.E. Garvey. 2004. Daily
incrementation in the otoliths ofthe red spotted sunfish,
Lepomis miniatus.
North
American Journal ofFisheries Management 24:270-274.
Garvey, J.E., and E.A. Marschall. 2003. Understanding latitudinal trends in fish body
size through models ofoptimal seasonal energy allocation. Canadian Journal of
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60(8):938-948.
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Micucci, S.M., J.E. Garvey, R.A. Wright, and R.A. Stein. 2003. Individual growth and
foraging responses ofage-0 largemouth bass to mixed prey assemblages during
winter. Enviromnental Biology ofFishes 67(2): 157-168.
Garvey, J.E., J.E. Rettig, R.A. Stein, D.M. Lodge, and S.P. Klosiewski. 2003. Scale-
dependent associations among fish predation, littoral habitat, and distributions of
native and exotic crayfishes. Ecology 84(12): 3339-3348.
Whiles, M.J., and J.E. Garvey. In press. Aquatic resources ofthe Shawnee and Hoosier
National Forests, USDA Forest Service.
Garvey, J.E., R.A. Stein, R.A. Wright, and M.T Bremigan. 2003. Largemouth bass
rectuitment in North America: quantifying underlying ecological mechanisms
along environmental gradients Black bass: ecology, conservation and
management. Edited by D. Philipp and M. Ridgway. American Fisheries Society
Symposium 3 1:7-23.
Garvey, J.E., D.R. DeVries, R.A. Wright, and J.G. Miner. 2003. Energetic adaptations
along a broad latitudinal gradient: implications for widely distributed
communities. BioScience 53(2): 141-150.
Garvey, J.E., T.P. Herra, and W.C. Leggett. 2002. Protracted reproduction in sunfish:
the temporal dimension in fish recruitment revisited. Ecological Applications
12: 194-205.
Garvey, J.E., R.A. Wright, K.H. Ferry, and R.A. Stein. 2000. Evaluating how local-
and regional- scale processes interact to regulate growth of age-0 largemouth
bass. Transactions ofthe American Fisheries Society 129:1044-1059.
Fullerton, A.H., J.E. Garvey, R.A. Wright, and R.A. Stein. 2000. Overwinter growth
and survival oflargemouth bass: interactions among size, food, origin, and winter
duration.
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 129:1-12.
Wright,
R.A., J.E. Garvey, A.H. Fullerton, and R.A. Stein. 1999. Using bioenergetics
to explore how winter conditions affect growth and consumption of age-0
largemouth bass. Transactions ofthe American Fisheries Society 128:603-6 12.
Garvey, J.E., and R.A. Stein. 1998. Competition between larval fishes in reservoirs:
the role ofrelative timing ofappearance. Transactions ofthe American Fisheries
Society 127:1023-1041.
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Garvey, J.E., R.A. Wright, and R.A. Stein. 1998. Overwinter growth and survival of
age-0 largemouth bass: revisiting the role ofbody size. Canadian Journal of
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:2414-2424.
Garvey, J.E., N.A. Dingledine, N.S. Donovan, and R.A. Stein. 1998. Exploring spatial
and temporal variation within reservoir food webs: predictions for fish
assemblages. Ecological Applications 8:104-120.
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Garvey, J.E., and R.A. Stein. 1998. Linking bluegill and gizzard shad assemblages to
growth ofage-0 largemouth bass in reservoirs. Transactions of the American
Fisheries Society 127:70-83.
Lodge, D.M., R.A. Stein, K.M. Brown, A.P. Covich, C. Brönmark, J.E. Garvey, and S.P.
Klosiewski. 1998. Predicting impact offreshwater exotic species on native
biodiversity: challenges in spatial and temporal scaling. Australian Journal of
Ecology 23:53-67.
Garvey, J.E., E.A. Marschall, and R.A. Wright. 1998. From star charts to stoneflies:
detecting relationships in continuous bivariate data. Ecology 79(2):442 447.
Schaus, M.H., M.J. Vanni, T.E. Wissing, M. Bremigan, J.E. Garvey, and R.A. Stein.
1997. Nitrogen and phosphorus excretion by the detritivorous gizzard shad
(Dorosoma cepedianum)
in a reservoir ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography
42(6):1386-1397.
Garvey, J.E., R.A. Stein, and H.M. Thomas. 1994. Assessing how fish predation and
interspecific prey competition influence a crayfish assemblage. Ecology 75:532-
547.
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Garvey, J.E., and R.A. Stein. 1993. Evaluating how chela size influences the invasion
potential ofan introduced crayfish,
Orconectes rusticus.
American Midland
Naturalist 129:172-181.
Garvey, J.E., H.A. Owen, and R.W. Winner. 1991. Toxicity of copper to the green alga,
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
(Chlorophycea), as affected by humic substances of
terrestrial and freshwater origin. Aquatic Toxicology 19:89-96.
Oral Presentations and Posters (Last Five Years)
Williamson, C.J., and J.E. Garvey. Growth and mortality ofsilver carp: implications for
its rise to dominance in the Middle Mississippi River. Illinois Chapter ofthe
American Fisheries Society, Champaign, IL, March 2004. (Oral presentation by
Williamson)
Koch, B.T., J.E. Garvey, and M. Lydy. The effects ofland use on organochlorine
accumulation in middle Mississippi River shovelnose sturgeon: intersexuality
and reproductive consequences. Illinois Chapter ofthe American Fisheries
Society, -Champaign, IL, March 2004. (Oral presentation by Koch)
Csoboth, L.A., D.W. Schultz, K. DeGrandChamp, J.E. Garvey, and R.M. Neumann.
Fish response at a backwater-river interchange: the Swan Lake rehabilitation and
enhancement project. Illinois Chapter ofthe American Fisheries Society,
Champaign, IL, March 2004. (Poster presentation)
Colombo, R.E., J.E. Garvey, and R.C. Heidinger. Comparing demographics ofchannel
catfish in fished and un-fished reaches of the Wabash River. 64~Meeting of the
Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. Kansas City, December 2003. (Oral
presentation by Colombo)
Spier, T., J.E. Garvey, R.C. Heidinger, R.J. Sheehan, P. Wills, K. Hurley, R.E.
Colombo, R.C. Brooks. Pallid and shovelnose sturgeon movement and habitat
usage in the middle Mississippi River.
64th
Meeting ofthe Midwest Fish and
Wildlife Conference. Kansas City, December 2003 (Oral presentation by Spier)
Marschall, E.A., and J.E. Garvey. Understanding latitudinal trends in fish body size
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through models ofoptimal seasonal energy allocation.
88th
Meeting ofthe
Ecological Society ofAmerica, Savannah, Georgia, July 2003 (Oral presentation
by Marschall)
Braeutigam, B.J., and J.E. Garvey. Winter habitat used by fish in Smithland Pool, Ohio
River. Ohio River Research Review, Indiana, August 2003. (Oral presentation
by Braeutigam)
Garvey, J.E. Importance of flood-plain connectivity to fish assemblages in the
Mississippi River. Middle Mississippi River Workgroup Meeting, Carbondale,
IL, June 2003. (Oral presentation by Garvey)
O’Neill, B.J., J.E. Garvey, M.R. Whiles, and K.R. Lips. Scale-dependent
interrelationships among, fish, landscape characteristics, and ambystomatid
salarnanders in forest ponds. Annual Meeting ofthe American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Manaus, Brazil, June 2003 (Oral presentation
by O’Neill)
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Spier, T.,
J.
Garvey, R. Heidinger, R. Sheehan, P. Wills, and K. Hurley. Demographics
and habitat usage ofpallid sturgeon in the Middle Mississippi River. Meeting of
the Illinois Chapter ofAmerican Fisheries Society, Rend Lake, IL, February 2003
(Oral presentation by Spier)
Jackson, N.D., J.E. Garvey, R.C. Heidinger, and R.J. Sheehan. Age and mortality of
shovelnose sturgeon,
Scaphirhynchus platoiynchus,
in the Middle Mississippi
River and Lower Wabash Rivers, Illinois. Meeting ofthe Illinois Chapter of
American Fisheries Society, Rend Lake, IL, February 2003 (Oral presentation by
Jackson)
Flinn, M.B., S. R. Adams, M.R. Whiles, J.E.
Garvey,
B.M. Burr, and R.J. Sheehan. Fish
and macroinvertebrate responses to environmental pool management in
Mississippi River Pool
25.
Meeting ofthe Illinois Chapter ofAmerican Fisheries
Society, Rend Lake, IL, February 2003 (Oral presentation by Flinn)
Colombo, R.E., J.E. Garvey, R.C. Heidinger and R.J. Sheehan. Population
demographics ofchannel catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
in the Wabash River.
Meeting ofthe Illinois Chapter ofAmerican Fisheries Society, Rend Lake, IL,
• February 2003 (Oral presentation by Colombo)
Garvey, J.E.
Early growth ofcentrarchids along a productivity gradient: setting the
stage for future interactions. American Fisheries Society Meeting, Baltimore,
MD, August 2002 (Oral presentation)
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Ostrand, K.G., S.J. Cooke, J.E. Garvey, D.H. WahI. Age-Q largemouth bass: the
overwinter effects ofprey type on growth and spring swimming performance.
American Fisheries Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, August 2002 (Oral
presentation by Ostrand)
Garvey,
J.E., S.M. Micucci, R.A. Wright, and R.A. Stein. Prey assemblage structure
during winter influences the condition ofage-0 largemouth bass. Midwest Fish
and Wildlife Meeting, Des Moines, IA, December 2001 (Oral presentation)
Garvey, J.E. Using optimal allocation models to explain latitudinal trends in recruitment
of largemouthbass. Illinois Renewable Natural Resources Conference, Peoria,
IL, February 2001 (Oral presentation; received Best Oral Presentation)
Bremigan, M.T., R.A. Stein, and J.E. Garvey. Variable gizzard shad recruitment and its
effects along a reservoir productivity gradient. American Society ofLimnology
Revised 2-Jun-04

James E. Garvey 8
and Oceanography Meeting
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Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2000 (Poster
presentation).
Evans-White, M., W.K. Dodds, and
J.E. Garvey.
Crayfish biomass, growth, and
production in a taligrass prairie stream. North American Benthological Society
Meeting, Colorado, May 2000 (Oral presentation by Dodds).
Garvey, J.E.
Patterns of sportfish recruitment in natural lakes and reservoirs: do
generalities exist? Kansas Chapter ofthe American Fisheries Society Meeting,
February 2000 (Oral presentation; received Best Oral Presentation).
Garvey,
J.E. From fish in lakes to crayfish in prairie streams: searching for general
recruitment mechanisms and ecosystem consequences. KSU Ecology Research
Seminar Series, November 1999 (Oral presentation).
Garvey,J.E.,
T.P. Herra, and W.C. Leggett. Mechanisms underlying the spatial
distribution oflarval sunfish
(Lepomis
spp.) in Lake Opinicon, Ontario.
American Fisheries Society Meeting
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Charlotte, North Carolina, August 1999
(Oral presentation).
Garvey, J.E.
Interactions between ecosystems and life histories: predicting fish
community structure in lakes. Kansas EPSCoR Conference, Topeka, KS, April
•1999 (Poster presentation).
Revised 2-Jun-04

MATT ROWLAND W11ILES
Department of Zoology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6501
Phone: (618) 453-7639
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born December 4, 1964; Kansas City, Missouri.
Married 1998, 1 daughter and 1 son
EDUCATION
9/91-6/95
University ofGeorgia, Athens, Georgia;
Ph.D. Ecology.
Dissertation: Disturbance, recovery, and invertebrate communities
in southern Appalachian headwater streams.
9/88-9/91
University ofGeorgia, Athens, Georgia; M.S. Entomology.
Thesis: First-year recovery ofa southern Appalachian headwater stream
following an insecticide induced disturbance.
• 8/84-8/88
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; B.S. Biology.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
• Ecosystem ecology with emphasis on freshwater ecosystem structure and function (mainly
• streams and wetlands), the role ofinvertebrates in ecosystems, ecosystem-level consequences
ofextinctions, energetic linkages between aquatic and terrestrial systems, the role of
• disturbance, and biological assessment of-freshwater habitats.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003-
Associate Professor of Zoology, Southern Illinois University
Teaching Freshwater Invertebrates, Stream Ecology, and General Ecology.
Advising graduate research in freshwater ecosystem ecology.
2000-
Assistant Professor of Zoology, Southern Illinois University
Teaching Freshwater Invertebrates, Stream Ecology, and General Ecology.
Advising graduate research in freshwater ecosystem ecology.
2000-
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Entomology, Kansas State University
Serving as a graduate committee member for students pursuing studies in the
area of aquatic invertebrate ecology
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
1997-00
Assistant Professor of Entomology (non-tenure track), Kansas State University
Taught Insect Ecology, Insects and People, Economic Entomology,
and an interdisciplinary Environmental Concerns course. Advised graduate
research in invertebrate ecology.
1995-97
Assistant Professor of Biology, Wayne State College
Taught Introductory Zoology, Invertebrate Zoology, Entomology, Vertebrate
Zoology, Ecology, and General Biology (majors and non-majors). Advised
undergraduate research in freshwater invertebrate ecology.
1996-
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, University ofMemphis
Graduate committee member for students working in aquatic ecology.
1989-95
Graduate
Teaching Assistant, University ofGeorgia
Instructed numerous laboratory courses including General Biology, Entomology,
Animal Behavior, Aquatic Entomology, General Ecology, and Insect Ecology.
1994
Laboratory Coordinator,
University ofGeorgia
Instructed, scheduled, and supervised graduate teaching assistants for the
General Biology program.
1988-94
Research Assistaiit, University of Georgia
Investigated the role ofaquatic invertebrates in stream ecosystem function.
Participated in all aspects of a long-term study including sampling and
processing of invertebrate communities, organic matter, and water chemistry.
1987-88
Research Assistant, Kansas State University
Investigated effects of nutrient enrichment on algal growth and invertebrate
grazer densities in streams on LTER sites across the country.
1987-87
Undergraduate Research Assistant,
Kansas State University
Investigated small mammal behavior on islands in the Sea ofCortez with and
without reptilianpredators.
1985-87
Undergraduate Research
Assistant, Kansas State University
Examined macroinvertebrate community dynamics in streams with contrasting
hydrologic regimes on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1997
Professor ofthe Year, Math and Sciences Division, Wayne State College.
1996
Professor ofthe Year, Math and Sciences Division, Wayne State College.
1995
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University ofGeorgia.
1994-1995 University-Wide Assistantship Award, University ofGeorgia.
1994-1995 Merit Assistantship Award; Outstanding Teaching and Research, Univ. ofGA.
1993-1994 Merit Assistantship Award; Outstanding Teaching and Research, Univ. of GA
1988
Nominee for Outstanding Senior Biology Student, Kansas State University.
1987
Hydrolab Award; best poster, North American Benthological Society meetings
1984
Designated Kansas State Scholar.

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PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Dodds, W. K., and M. R.
Whiles.
In press.
Factors related to quality and quantity ofsuspended
particles in rivers: general continent-scale patterns in the United States.
Environmental
Management:
Whiles, M. R., J. B. Jensen, J. G. Pails, and W. G. Dyer.
Inpress.
Diets of larval flatwoods
salamanders,
Ambystoma cingulatum,
from Florida and South Carolina.
Journal of
Herpetology.
Whiles, M. R., and J. E. Garvey.
Inpress.
Freshwater resources within the Shawnee-Hoosier
Ecological Assessment Region. Special Publication ofthe USDA Forest Service:
Dodds, W. K., K. Gido, M. R. Whiles, K. M. Fritz, and W. J. Matthews. 2004. Life on the
Edge: Ecology ofPrairie Streams.
Bioscience 54:
205-216
Ranvestel, A. W., K. R. Lips, C. M. Pringle, M. R. Whiles, and R. J. Bixby. 2004. Neotropicai
tadpoles influence stream benthos: evidence for ecological consequences ofamphibian
declines.
Freshwater Biology
49: 274-285.
Webber, J. A., K. W. J. Williard, M. R. Whiles, M. L. Stone, J. J. Zaczek, and K. D. Davie.
2004.
Watershed scale assessment of the impact offorested riparlan zones on stream
water quality. Pages 114-120 In: Van Sambeek, J.W.; J.O. Dawson; F. Ponder, Jr.; E.F.
Loewenstein; and J.S. Fralish, eds. Proceedings, 13th Central Hardwood Forest
Conference; Urbana, IL. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-234. St. Paul, MN: USDA Forest Service,
North Central Research Station.
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Evans-White, M. A., W. K. Dodds, and M. R. Whiles. 2003. Ecosystem significance of
crayfishes and central stonerollers in a tallgrass prairie stream: functional differences
between co-occurring omnivores.
Journal ofthe North American Benthological Society:
22: 423-441.
Callaham, M. A., Jr., J. M. Blair, T. C. Todd, D. J. Kitchen, and M. R. Whiles. 2003.
Macroinvertebrates in North American tallgrass prairie soils: Effects offire, mowing, and
fertilization on density and biornass.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
35:1079-1093.
Whiles, M. R., and W. K. Dodds. 2002. Relationships between stream size, suspended
particles, and filter-feeding macroinvertebrates in a Great Plains drainage network.
Journal ofEnvironnwntal Quality
31: 1589-1600.
Jonas, J., M. R. Whiles, and R. E. Chariton. 2002. Aboveground invertebrate responses to land
management differences in a central Kansas grassland.
Environmental Entomology
31:
1142-1152.
Stagliano, D. M., and M. R. Whiles. 2002. Macroinvertebrate production and trophic structure
in a tallgrass prairie headwater stream.
Journal ofthe North American Benthological
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Society2l:
97-113.
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• Callaham, M. A., M. R.
Whiles, and J. M. Blair.
2002. Annual fire, mowing, and fertilization
effects on two annual cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in tallgrass prairie.
American
MidlandNaturalist
148: 90-101.
Meyer, C. K., M. R.
Whiles, and
R. E. Chariton. 2002. Life history, secondary production, and
ecosystem significance ofacridid grasshoppers in annually burned and unburned tallgrass
prairie.
American Entomologist
48:
52-61.

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PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS (continued)
Whiles, M. R., and B. S. Goldowitz. 2001. Hydrologic influences on insect emergence
production from central Platte River wetlands.
EcologicalApplications
11: 1829-1842.
Whiles, M. R. M. A. Callaham, C. K. Meyer, B. L. Brock, and R. E. Chariton. 2001.
Emergence ofperiodical cicadas from a Kansas riparian forest: densities, biomass, and
nitrogen flux.
American MidlandNaturalist 145:
176-187.
Schrank, S. J., C. S. Guy,
M. R. Whiles,
and B. L. Brock. 2001. Assessment of
Physicochemical and watershed features influencing Topeka shiner
Notropis topeka
distribution in Kansas streams.
Copeia
2001: 413-421.
Dodds, W. K., M. A. Evans-White, N. M. Gerlanc, L. J. Gray, D. A.Gudder, M. J. Kemp, A. L.
Lopez, D. Stagliano, E. A. Strauss, J. L. Tank,
M. R. Whiles, W. M.
Woliheim. 2001.
Quantification ofthe nitrogen cycle in a prairie stream.
Ecosystems:
3:
574-589.
Whiles, M. R., B. L. Brock, A. C. Franzen, and S. Dinsmore II. 2000. Stream invertebrate
communities, water quality, and land use patterns in an agricultural drainage basin of
northen Nebraska.
Environmental Management:
26:
563-576.
Jeflsen, J. B., and M. R. Whiles. 2000. Diets of sympatric
Plethodonpetraeus
and
Plethodon
giutinosus. Journal ofthe Elisha Mitchell Scient~JIcSociety
116: 245-250.
Callaharn, M. A., Jr., M. R. Whiles, C. K. Meyer, B. L. Brock, and R. E. Chariton. 2000.
Feeding ecology and emergence production ofannual cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in
taligrass prairie.
Oecologia
123: 535-542.
Alexander, K. A., and M. R. Whiles, 2000. A new species of
Ironoquia
Banks (Trichoptera:
Limnephilidae) from the central Platte River, Nebraska.
EntomologicalNews:
ill: 1-7.
Whiles, M. R., B. S. Goldowitz, and R. Chariton. 1999. Life history and production ofa semi-
terrestrial limnephilid caddisflyin a Platte River wetland.
Journal of the North American
Benthological Society
18: 533-544.
Goldowitz, B. S., and M. R. Whiles. 1999. Investigations offish, amphibians, and aquatic
invertebrates within the middle Platte River system. Published final Report, Platte
Watershed Program, Cooperative Agreement X99708 101, USEPA.
Whiles, M. R., and B. S. Goldowitz. 1998. Biological responses to hydrologic fluctuation in
wetland sloughs ofthe central Platte River.
In
Lingle, G. (ed.)
Proceedings ofthe Ninth
Platte
RiverBasin Ecosystem Symposium.
USFWS and USEPA Region VII;
Whiles, M. R., and J. B. Wallace. 1997. Litter decomposition and macroinvertebrate
communities in headwater streams drainingpine and hardwood catchments.
Hydrobiologia 353:
107-119.
Wallace, J. B., T. F. Cuffney, S. L. Eggert, and M. R.
Whiles.
1997. Stream organic matter
inputs, storage, and export for Satellite Branch at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North
Carolina, USA.
Journal of the North American Benthological Society
16: 67-74.
Whiles, M. R. and J. B. Wallace. 1996. Macroinvertebrate production in a headwater stream
during recovery from anthropogenic disturbance and hydrologic extremes.
Canadian
Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences
52: 2402-2422.
Wallace, J. B., J. W. Grubaugh, and M. R. Whiles. 1996. The influence ofcoarse woody debris
on stream habitats and invertebrate biodiversity.
In
McMinn, J. W. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.

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(eds.). Biodiversity and coarse woody debris in southern forests. Gen. Tech. Rept. SE-94.
USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station.
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS (continued)
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Wallace, J. B., J. W. Grubaugh, and M. R. Whiles. 1996. Biotic indices and stream ecosystem
processes: results from an experimental study.
EcologicalApplications
6: 140-151
Whiles, M. R. and J. W. Grubaugh. 1996. Coarse woody debris and amphibian and reptile
biodiversity in southern forests.
In
McMinn, J. W. and D. A. Crossley, Jr. (eds.).
Biodiversity and coarse woody debris in southern forests. Gen. Tech. Rept. SE-94.
USDA Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station.
Wallace, J. B., M. R. Whiles, S. Eggert, T. F. Cuffhey, G. J.Lugthart, and K. Chung.
1995.
Long-term dynamics of coarse particulate organic matter in three Appalachian Mountain
streams.
Journal of the North American Benthological Society
14: 2 17-232.
Whiles, M. R., K. Chung, and J. B. Wallace. 1993. Influence of
Lepidostoma
(Trichoptera:
Lepidostomatidae) on leaflitter processing in disturbed streams.
American Midland
Naturalist
130:
356-363.
Wallace~J. B., M. R. Whiles, J. R. Webster, T. F. Cuffiiey, G. J. Lugthart, and K. Chung. 1993.
Dynamics ofparticulate inorganic matterin headwater streams: linkages with
invertebrates.
Journal ofthe North American Benthological Society
12: 112-125.
Whiles, M. R. and J. B. Wallace. 1992. First-year benthic recovery ofa southern Appalachian
stream following three years ofinsecticide treatment.
Freshwater Biology
28: 81-91.
Hooker, K. L. and M. R. Whiles. 1988. A technique for collection and study of subterranean
invertebrates.
Southwestern-Naturalist
33: 375-376.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Meyer, C. K., M. R. Whiles, S. G. Baer, and B. S. Goldowitz. 2004. Macroinvertebrate
communities and ecosytem function in backwater sloughs ofthe central Platte River:
influence ofhydrologic gradients and restoration activities. Invited symposia:
Entomology in Prairie Ecosystems. Annual meetings of the North Central Branch ofthe
Entomological Society ofAmerica, Kansas City, MO.
•Regester, K.J., K. R. Lips, and M. R. Whiles. 2004. The significance ofpond-breeding
salamanders to energy flow and subsidies in an Illinois forest ecosystem. Midwest
Ecology and Evolution Conference, University ofNotre Dame, March 5-7.
Waither, D. A., M. 11. Whiles, D. W. Butler, and M. B. Flinn. 2004. Community level
estimation ofnon-predatory chironomid production in a southern Illinois stream. Annual
meetings of the North Central Branch ofthe Entomological Society ofAmerica, Kansas
City, MO.
Meyer, C. K., M. R. Whiles, and S. G. Baer. 2003. Aboveground production and belowground
biomass in natural and restored Platte River slough wetlands. Annual meetings ofthe
Society for Ecological Restoration, Austin, TX.
Whiles, M. R.
2003. Freshwater macroinvertebrate communities and disturbance: tools for
basic and applied investigations in freshwater ecosystems. Invited seminar speaker,
Purdue University Department ofForestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife.

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Callaham,
M.A., Jr.,
M.R.
Whiles, P.F. Hendrix, and J.M. Blair. 2003. Using natural
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abundance
stable isotopes to examine the feeding ecology ofcicadas in tallgrass prairie.
Invited symposium presentation, Entomological Society ofAmerica Annual Meetings,
Cincinnati OH.
Whiles, M. R. 2003. Biological responses to hydrologic variability and restoration activities in
central
Platte River backwater wetlands. Invited seminar speaker, Eastern Illinois
University Dept. ofBiology.
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Callaham, M.A., Jr., P.F. Hendrix, J.M. Blair, and
M.R.
Whiles. 2003. Natural abundance and
tracer applications ofstable isotopes for examination of soil invertebrate feeding ecology.
Invited symposium presentation at Soil Science Society ofAmerica Annual Meetings,
Denver, CO.
Whiles, M. R. 2003. Biological responses to hydrologic variability in Platte River backwater
wetlands.
Invited seminar speaker, University ofIllinois Dept. of Natural Resources and
Environmental
Sciences.
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Fun, M. B., M. R. Whiles, and S. R. Adams.
2003. Response ofaquatic macroinvertebrates to
environmental pool management and vegetation in Mississippi River backwater wetlands.
Annual Meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society, Athens, GA.
Stone, M. L., M. R. Whiles, J. A. Webber, and K. J. Williard. 2003. Influence ofriparian
vegetation on water quality, in-stream habitat, and macroinvertebrates in southern Illinois
agricultural
streams. Annual Meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society,
Athens, GA.
Oneill, B. J., J. B. Garvey, M. R. Whiles, and K. A. Lips. 2003. Scale-dependent
intelTelationships among fish, landscape characteristics, and ambystornatid salamanders
in forest ponds. Joint meeting ofichthyologists and herpetologists, Manaus, Brazil.
Flinn, M. B., S. R. Adams, M. R. Whiles, J. E. Garvey, B. M. Burr, and R. J. Sheehan. 2003.
Fish and macroinvertebrate responses to environmental pool management in Mississippi
Riverpool
25.
Illinois Chapter ofthe American Fisheries Society, Rend Lake, IL.
Adams, S. R. M. B. Flinn, B. M. Burr, R. J. Sheehan, and M. R. Whiles. 2002. Larval ecology
ofblue sucker
(Cycleptus elongatus)
in the Mississippi River. American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meetings, Kansas City, MO.
Whiles, M. R.
2002. Ecology and ecosystem significance ofcicadas in a taligrass prairie
landscape. Invited seminar speaker, Dept. ofBiology, University ofMemphis.
Whiles, M. R., and B. S. Goldowitz. 2002. Influence ofhydrology and fish on
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macroinvertebrate communities in backwater sloughs ofthe central Platte River,
Nebraska. Annual Meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society, Pittsburgh.
Whiles, M. R., M. L. Stone,
J. Webber, and K. Williard. 2001. The influence offorested
riparian buffers on water quality and stream invertebrates in Sugar Creek drainage,
Illinois. Governor’s Conference on Management ofthe Illinois river system, Peoria, Ii.
Webber, J. A., K. W. Williard, M. R. Whiles, and M. L. Stone. 2001. Watershed-scale
assessment of the impact offorested riparian buffer strips on stream water quality and
biotic integrity. Ecological Society ofAmerica 21(1 International Nitrogen Conference,
Potomac, MD.
Evans-White, M. A., W. K. Dodds, and M. R. Whiles. 2001. Trophic basis ofproduction of
crayfish and central stonerollers in a prairie stream. Annual Meetings ofthe North
American Benthological Society, Lacrosse, WI.
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Whiles,
M. R., and W. K. Dodds. 2001. Relationships between stream size, suspended
particles, and filter-feeding macroinvertebrates in a Great Plains river system. Annual
Meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society, Lacrosse, WI.
Whiles, M. R. and M. L. Stone. 2001. Relationships
between riparian zone vegetation, water
quality, and stream invertebrate communities. Midwestern Renewable Natural Resources
Conference, Peoria, Illinois.
Jensen, J. B., C. Camp, J. L. Marshall, and M. R. Whiles. 2001. Recent advances in the
knowledge ofdistribution and natural history ofthe Pigeon Mountain salamander
(Plethodonpetraeus).
Joint annual meeting ofthe Herpetologists League and the Society
for the Study ofAmphibians and Reptiles, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Stagliano, D. M. and M. R. Whiles. 2000. Aquatic invertebrate trophic structure and secondary
production in a tallgrass prairie stream. Annual Meetings of the North American
Benthological Society, Keystone, Colorado.
Meyer, C. K., Whiles, M. R., and R. B. Chariton. 2000. Secondary production and energetics of
grass-feeding acridids in taligrass prairie. Annual meetings ofthe Southwestern Branch
ofthe Entomological Society ofAmerica, Dallas, TX.
Jonas, J. L., M. R. Whiles, and R. B. Charlton. 2000. Land use patterns and insect diversity in a
central Kansas grassland. Annual meetings ofthe Southwestern Branch of the
Entomological Society ofAmerica, Dallas, TX.
Dodds, W~K., M. Evans-White, N. M. Gerlanc, L. Gray, D. Gudder, M. J. Kemp, A. Lopez, D.
M. Stagliano, B. A. Strauss, J. L. Tank, M. R. Whiles, and W. M. Wollheim. 2000.
Quantification ofthe nitrogen cycle in a prairie stream: Konza LINX. Annual Meetings
ofthe North American Benthological Society, Keystone, Colorado.
Whiles, M. R., and B. 5. Goldowitz. 1999. Influence ofhydrology on aquatic insect emergence
production from backwater sloughs ofthe central Platte River, Nebraska. Annual
meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society, Duluth, MN.
Meyer, C. K., M. R. Whiles, and R. E. Charlton. 1999. Secondary production and energetics of
a dominant grass-feeding grasshopper in tallgrass prairie. Annual meetings ofthe
Entomological Society ofAmerica, Atlanta.
Stagliano, D., M. R. Whiles, and R. B. Charlton. 1999. Aquatic insect production and
functional structure in a tallgrass prairie headwater stream. Annual meetings ofthe
Entomological Society ofAmerica, Atlanta.
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Whiles, M. R. 1999. Natural History and emergence production patterns ofcicadas
(Homoptera: Cicadidae) On the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Kansas. Invited
seminar speaker, University ofKansas, November 4, 1999.
Jeffrey, J. D., and M. R. Whiles. 1999. Effects ofthe PGA-class Colbert Hills golf course
construction on prairie amphibians. 26th meetings ofthe KS Herp. Society, Pratt.
Whiles, M. R. 1999. Ecology and significance of cicadas in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem.
Invited seminar speaker, University ofMaine, October 21, 1999.
Evans-White, M. A., W. K. Dodds, M. J. Kemp, L. A. Gray, A. Lopez, J. L. Tank, and M. R.
Whiles. 1999. Patterns ofnitrogen cycling in a prairie stream food web. Annual
meetings ofthe North American Benthological- Society, Duluth, MN.
Goldowitz, B. S., and M. R.
Whiles.
1999. Influence ofhydrologic fluctuations on aquatic
vertebrate communities in central Platte River Wetlands. Annual meetings ofthe
Ecological Society ofAmerica, Spokane, WA.

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Whiles, M. R. 1999. Significance of arthropods to prairie ecosystem function. Invited
symposium speaker, annual meetings ofthe Central States Entomological Society,
Manhattan, KS.
Whiles, M. R. 1999. Aquatic invertebrate communities and disturbance: tools forbasic and
applied investigations. Invited seminar speaker, Southern Illinois University.
Whiles, M. R., A. Franzen, S. Dinsmore, and B. L. Brock. 1998. Use of invertebrate rapid
bioassessment for identification ofstream reaches contributing to water quality
degradation in a northeast Nebraska reservoir. Joint meetings ofthe Association of
Limnologists and Oceanographers and the Ecological Society ofAmerica, St. Louis, MO.
Evans-White, M. A., W. K. Dodds, M. J. Kemp, L. A. Gray, J. L. Tank, M. R. Whiles, and A.
Lopez. 1998. Nitrogen transfer through a prairie stream food web. Annual meetings of
the Great Plains Limnological Society, Pittsburg, KS.
Whiles, M. R. and B. S. Goldowitz. 1998. Biological responses to hydrologic fluctuation in
wetland sloughs ofthe central Platte River. The 9th Platte River Basin Ecosystem
Symposium, Kearney, NB.
Whiles, M.
R. 1997. Invertebrate bioassessment: advantages, techniques, and applications.
Invited speaker, ann. meetings of the Nebraska Natural Resource Districts, Kearney, NE.
Whiles, M. R. 1997. Invertebrate communities and ecosystem processes in disturbed lotic
systems. Invited seminar speaker, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
Whiles, M. R. 1996. Disturbance, invertebrate communities, and stream ecosystem processes in
southern Appalachian streams. Invited seminar speaker, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock.
Whiles, M. R.
1995.
Stream ecosystem research at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. Invited
seminar speaker, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma.
Whiles, M. R., and J. Bruce Wallace.
1995.
Leaflitter decomposition and shredder
communities in streams draining mixed hardwood and white pine watersheds. Annual
meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society, Keystone, Colorado.
Wallace, J. B., J. W. Grubaugh, and M. R. Whiles.
1995.
Biotic indices and stream ecosystem
processes:- results from an experimental study. Annual meetings ofthe North American
Benthological Society, Keystone, Colorado.
Whiles, M. R.
1995.
Disturbance and aquatic invertebrate communities in southern
Appalachian Mountain streams. Invited seminar speaker, University ofTennessee at
Chattanooga.
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Whiles, M. R.
1994. Recovery dynamics ofinvertebrate communities and litter processing in
southern Appalachian streams following disturbance. Invited seminar, Berry College,
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Mount Berry, Georgia.
Whiles, M. R. and J. B. Wallace. 1994. Long-term measurements ofcoarse particulate organic
matter export from headwater streams. Annual meeting ofthe North American
Benthological Society, Orlando, Florida.
Grubaugh, J. W., Wallace, J. B., and M. R. Whiles. 1994. 1956-57 versus 199 1-92: A
comparison ofmacroinvertebrate communities and potential effects ofchanging land
usage in a Georgia piedmont river. Annual meeting of the North American Benthological
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Whiles, M. R. 1993. Coarse woody debris and amphibian and reptile diversity in southern
forests. Conference on coarse woody debris in southern forests: effects on biodiversity,
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University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology.
Whiles, M. R., and G. J. Lugthart. 1993. Secondary production in a headwater stream during
record dry and wet years. Annual meeting ofthe North American Benthological Society,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Whiles, M. R., Wallace, J. B., and K. Chung 1992. Use ofa refractory litter species by a
caddisfly: the role of
Lepidostoma
in stream recovery from disturbance. Annual meeting
ofthe North American Benthological Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
Whiles, M. R., and J. B. Wallace 1991. First-year macroinvertebrate communityrecovery in a
southern Appalachian stream following an insecticide induced disturbance. Annual
meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Whiles, M. R., Tate, C. M., and K. L. Hooker 1988. The influence ofnutrient enrichments and
grazers on periphyton growth in Konza Prairie streams. Annual Division ofBiology
Graduate Student Forum, Kansas State University.
Tate, C.M., Whiles, M.R., and K. L. Hooker 1988. Influence of nutrients and grazers on
periphyton biornass in prairie streams. Annual meeting ofthe North American
Benthological Society, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Tate, G.M., Hooker, K.L., and M. R. Whiles 1987. Seasonal response ofperiphyton to nutrient
enrichment in prairie streams. Annual meeting ofthe North American Bènthological
Society, Orono, Maine.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Rowlett, J. H., D. A. Walther, and M. R. Whiles. 2004. A comparison ofmacroinvertebrate
community structure on artificial rock riffles to snag and exposed streambed habitats in
Cache River, Illinios. Annual meetings ofthe North Central Branch ofthe Entomological
Society ofAmerica, Kansas City, MO.
Whiles, M. R.,
D. W. Butler, D. A. Walther, and M. B. Flinn. 2003. Temperature-dependent
growth rates ofnon-predatory chironomids from a southern Illinois stream. Annual
meeting ofthe North American Benthological Society, Athens, GA.
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Stone, M. L., M. R. Whiles, J. A. Webber, and K. Williard. 2002. Relationships between
riparian vegetation, water chemistry, and stream invertebrates in a southern Illinois
agricultural landscape. Annual meeting ofthe North American Benthological Society,
Pittsburgh.
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Flinn, M. B., R. Adams, M. R. Whiles, B. Burr, and R. Sheehan. 2002. Feeding ecology of
larval blue suckers
(Cycleptus elongatus):
a direct benefit ofriverine backwater
invertebrates to a main channel fish. Annual meeting ofthe North American
Benthological
Society, Pittsburgh.
Flinn, M. B., R. Adams, M. R. Whiles, B. Burr, and R. Sheehan. 2002. Feeding ecology of
larval blue suckers in Mississippi River backwaters. Mississippi River Research
Consortium meetings, LaCrosse, WI.
Meyer, C. K., M. R. Whiles, and R. B. Charlton. 2001. Secondary production and energetics of
grasshoppers as affected by annual burning in tallgrass prairie. Annual meetings ofthe
North Central Branch ofthe Entomological Society ofAmerica, Fort Collins, CO.

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Callaham, M. A., J. M. Blair, T. C. Todd, D. J. Kitchen, and M. R. Whiles. 2001. Fire,
mowing, and fertilization effects on macroinvertbrate assemblages- in taligrass prairie
soils. Soil Ecology Society Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Whiles, M. R.,
M. A. Callaham, Jr., C. K. Meyer, and J. M. Blair. 2000. Land Management
Influences on Grassland Cicada Emergence Dynamics. Ecological Society ofAmerica
All Scientists meetings, Snowbird, Utah.
Corum,
R. A., W. K. Dodds,
and M. R. Whiles.
2000. Distribution offilter-feeding
invertebrates in central Kansas rivers and streams. Midwest Limnological Society
Meetings, Lawrence, KS.
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Whiles, M. R., D. M. Stagliano, and R. E. Charlton. 2000. Bioassessment ofdisturbed prairie
streams: problems with traditional fish and aquatic invertebrate metrics. Annual
Meetings ofthe North American Benthological Society, Keystone, Colorado.
Callaham, M. A., M. R. Whiles, C. K. Meyer, B. L. Brock, and R. E. Charlton. 1999.
Emergence production and ecology of annual cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in tallgrass
prairie. Annual meetings ofthe Entomological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
Callaham, M. A., M. 1~.Whiles, C. K. Meyer, B. L. Brock, and R. E. Charlton. 1999. Feeding
ecology ofcicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in tallgrass prairie. Soil Ecology Society
Conference, Chicago, IL.
Jonas, J. L.,
M.
R. Whiles, and R. E. Charlton. 1999. Influence ofland use patterns on insect
diversity in a central Kansas grassland. Annual meetings of the Entomological Society of
America,
Atlanta, GA.
Whiles, M. R., M. A. Callaham, C. K. Meyer, B. L. Brock, and R. B. Charlton. 1998. Periodical
cicada emergence production in a northeast Kansas riparian forest. Annual meetings of
the Entomological Society ofAmerica, Las Vegas, NV.
Stagliano, D., R. B. Charlton, and M. R. Whiles. 1998. Assessing environmental impacts on
Colbert
Hills using fish and aquatic insect communities. Kansas State Research and
Extension
Annual Conference, Manhattan, KS.
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Alexander, K. A. and M. R. Whiles. 1998. A new species of
Ironoquia
Banks (Trichoptera:
Limnephilidae) from backwaters of the central Platte River, Nebraska. North American
Prairie Conference, Kearney, NE.
Din~more,S., M. R. Whiles, and R. Roberts. 1997. Use ofbioassessment for identification of
stream reaches contributing to eutrophication ofa northeast Nebraska reservoir. Annual
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meetings ofthe Southwestern Association ofNaturalists, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Dinsmore, S., M. R. Whiles, and R. Roberts. 1996. Biological and chemical analysis of
agriculturally impacted streams in northeast Nebraska. 31st regional meetings ofthe
American Chemical Society, Sioux Falls, SD.
Whiles, M. R.
1993. Secondary production in a headwater stream during wet and dry years.
Annual meetings ofthe Coweeta LTER site, Athens, Georgia.
Whiles, M. R. and K. L. Hooker 1987. Subterranean invertebrates-from an artesian spring on
Konza Prairie. Annual meeting ofthe NA Benthological Soc., Orono, Maine.
GRANT REVIEWER
NSF, USDA, USEPA, USGS-BRD, Illinois Groundwater Consortium (IGC)
EPA STAR Fellowships, invited review panel member (2002)

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BOOK REVIEWER
Fundamentals ofEcology, 5th ed., B. P. Odum and G. Barrett
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Ecology, Concepts and Applications, 2nd ed., M. C. Molles
Freshwater Ecology, W.
K. Dodds
MANIJSCR1PT REVIEWER
BioScience, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Limnology and Oceanography
Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Journal ofthe North American Benthological Society
Environmental Management, Prairie Naturalist, American Entomologist
Environmental Entomology, Journal ofInsect Science, Journal ofEcology
Journal ofthe Kansas Entomological Society, Bulletin ofMarine Science
Journal ofCave and Karst Studies, Wetlands, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry,
New Zealand Journal ofMarine and Freshwater Research, Restoration Ecology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE and MEMBERSHIPS
2002-03
Program Committee, North American Benthological Society
2002-03
Membership Director, American Water Resources Assoc., Illinois chapter
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Entomological Society ofAmerica
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Sigma Xi
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North American Benthological Society

BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF:
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO
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AMMONIA NITROGEN STANDARDS
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(Rulemaking
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35 Ill. Adm. Code
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WRITTEN TESTIMONY OF ROBERT J. SHEEHAN
Justification and Approach for Adoption ofthe United States Environmental
Protection Agency’s Approach for Setting Ambient Water Quality Criteria for
Ammonia in Illinois Surface Waters
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I am Robert J. Sheehan, Professor of Fisheries in Zoology and Assistant Director
ofthe Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
My purpose here today is to explain the justification and approach for what I believe
Illinois should use to establish water quality criteria for the state’s surface waters. I
believe that recent information indicates that current ammonia water quality criteria used
by Illinois appear to not be protective enough under certain circumstances and they
appear to be overly protective under other circumstances. I believe that Illinois should
use methods described by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
in their latest National Criteria Document for ammonia, the 1999 Update of Ambient
Water Quality Criteria for Ammonia (“1999 Ammonia Update”).
I.
Professional Credentials:
I base my testimony on more than 15 years of experience with ammonia toxicity
issues.
For example, colleagues and I published in the international journal
Hydrobiologia
what is to my knowledge the first paper examining the tolerance of larval
(glochidia) unionid mussels to ammonia (Goudreau et al. 1993).
This paper was
considered in the 1999 Ammonia Update. A colleague and I also published in
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a study (Sheehan and Lewis 1986) that
was also included as part of the database upon which the 1999 Ammonia Update was
based. This work was the basis for two best paper awards conferred on us by the
American Fisheries Society. I was selected by the Cadmus Group, a consulting firm
employed by USEPA, to be one of the five national reviewers for the 1999 Ammonia
Update; I was the only biologist among the reviewers (Cadmus 1997). I have taught a
graduate level class (Zoology
565,
Environmental Physiology of Fishes) for more than
ten years that covers in depth the methods for calculation ofnumeric and narrative water
quality criteria. I have also taught these methods in the University of Illinois’ Envirovet
curriculum; Envirovet is a program for training veterinarians in aquatic animal health. I
am the Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society’s representative to the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency’s (IEPA) Total Maximum Daily Load Work Group. I
am a member of IEPA’s Science Committee for developing water quality standards for
nutrients.
Other indications of my professional stature include the more than $2,000,000 of
funding I have received for research in aquatic systems. This funding was obtained from
approximately twenty different sources.
Most of this research has been directed at
Illinois surface waters, and in particular rivers and streams, but some has been
international (e.g., Amazon River) in scope. I have authored more than twenty-five peer-
reviewed publications on river and stream organisms. These include: 1) invited author of
the “Large Rivers” chapter (Sheehan and Rasmussen 1993) in the American Fisheries
Society’s textbook on fisheries management,
Inland Fisheries Management in North
America—an
updated revision of that work has recently been completed (Sheehan and
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Rasmussen 1999); and 2) invited author of the chapter on “Wetlands and Fisheries
Resources of the Mississippi River” in the Pennsylvania Academy of Science book,
Ecolo~ of Wetlands and Associated Systems.
I serve as a member of numerous
government agency teams or committees, such as the Mississippi River Coordination
Team and the Lower Platte River Task Force. I have been an expert witness for the
Washington University Environmental Law Clinic at a hearing before the Missouri Clean
Water Commission. I have also been an expert witness in a hearing before the Illinois
Pollution Control Board that concerned ammonia in the Galesburg Sanitary District
discharge. Lastly, I was appointed to the Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Team by the Director
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; this is the only federally listed endangered fish
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species in the Mississippi River.
II.
Justification
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As Mr. Callahan testified, ammonia exists in solution in a dynamic equilibrium in
twO forms, as ammonium ion (NH~)and as an unionized molecule (NIH3). Current water
quality standards for Illinois are derived from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s National Criteria Document,
Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Ammonia—
1984,
which was published in
1985
(hereafter referred to as
“1985
Ammonia Guidance”).
The 1985 Ammonia Guidance was formulated under the so-called joint toxicity theory,
which holds that unionized ammonia is the more toxic form, but ionized ammonia is also
toxic. Further, as pH, temperature or both decrease, the proportion of the toxicity
attributable to ionized ammonia will increase, due to the effects oftemperature and pH on
the ammonia equilibrium. Toxicity appears to increase as pH, temperature, or both
decrease if one only considers unionized ammonia concentrations, because more ionized
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ammonia will be found in lower pH and/or lower temperature solutions. Thus, the 1985
Ammonia Guidance expressed water quality criteria in terms of unionized ammonia with
corrections for the effects of temperature and pH on ammonia toxicity. It was noted in
the 1985 Ammonia Guidance that the joint toxicity model did not appear to be consistent
with some data sets that were available at that time.
In the 1999 Ammonia Update, USEPA concluded that
a
definitive, thorough
theoretical approach for describing pH effects on ammonia toxicity is lacking. Further,
USEPA concluded in the 1999 Ammonia Update that there is no adequate theoretical
basis or scientific understanding for specifying how temperature adjustments to unionized
ammonia criteria can be made. Rather than trying to make “square-peg” data fit into the
“round-hole” joint toxicity theory, the 1999 Ammonia Update took an empirical approach
to describe how pH and temperature affect ammonia toxicity. This meant that in the
opinion of USEPA in the 1999 Ammonia Update, the approach used in the 1985
Ammonia Guidance was flawed because it was formulated based on the belief in the joint
toxicity theory, a belief that seemed to be refuted, especially when applied to temperature
effects on ammonia toxicity.
Application of the 1999 Ammonia Update to Illinois water quality laws is
warranted at this time. The 1999 Ammonia Update is superior to the 1985 Ammonia
Guidance approach for a number of reasons. First, the 1999 Ammonia Update recognizes
that the effects of temperature on ammonia toxicity are not strongly indicative ofjoint
toxicity. Second, models used to describe the effects of pH on ammonia toxicity use
empirical components in recognition of the incomplete knowledge of joint toxicity
effects. Third, expressing ammonia toxicity on the basis of total ammonia eliminated the
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need for a temperature correction for ammonia Criterion Maximum Concentrations.
Fourth, using total ammonia to express ammonia toxicity generally resulted in reduced
variability among data sets and better fit to existing data sets. Fifth, permit limits are
usually expressed in total ammonia, so expressing criteria on the basis oftotal -ammonia
would eliminate conversions to unionized ammonia. Sixth, another water quality
criterion that 1999 Ammonia Update believes is necessary to protect aquatic life will be
established, wherein the highest four-day average will not be allowed to exceed
2.5
times
the chronic criterion. Lastly, the results of more than 40 new scientific studies with a
number of additional species were added to the ammonia toxicity data base. Studies
representing a broad range ofspecies are necessary for developing adequately protective
water quality criteria.
More data in general reduces the risk of criteria being
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overprotective as well as under protective.
III.
Proposed changes to Part 302, Subpart
B,
Section 302.212:
Methods for calculating water quality criteria are taken from the 1999 Ammonia
Update. All criteria will be on the basis oftotal ammonia. The 1999 Ammonia Update
provides two relationships for calculating the Criterion Maximum Concentration (CMC)
or acute criterion for ammonia. One equation is used when salmonid fishes are present
and the other when they are absent. Since no reproducing salmonid populations are
found in Illinois waters that receive NPDES point source discharges, the salmonid fishes
absent approach is warranted in Illinois.
The
1999 Ammonia Update provides two relationships for calculating the
Criterion Continuous Concentration (CCC) or chronic criterion for ammonia. One
relationship is to be used when early life history stages of fish are present and the other

when they are not. The equation used when early life history stages are present results in
a more protective water quality criterion, which is necessary to protect fishes during
sensitive developmental stages.
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I compiled a list of spawning dates for fish species in Illinois to determine when
the “early life history stages present” water quality criteria should be applied. These
spawning dates may be found as IA WA’s Exhibit 11. Spawning dates were derived from
many sources and based on the best information available. Although spawning dates
have been reported for most species, information specific to Illinois is not available for
many species, soprofessional judgment was also used. Primary sources of spawning date
information included
Fishes of Illinois
(Smith 1979),
The Fishes of Missouri
(Pflieger
1997), and
Fishes of Wisconsin
(Becker
1983).
I consulted with Dr. Brooks Burr, an ichthyologist at my institution. I also.
consulted with Mr. Brian Thompson of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region V. It is my understanding that Mr. Thompson then consulted with a colleague in
his office, Mr. Ed Hammer. Mr. Hammer is knowledgeable of fishes in Illinois. To the
best of my knowledge, the following rationale for determining periods when early life
history stages of fishes are present in Illinois waters is representative of and consistent
with the outcome ofthose consultations.
Most Illinois fish species spawn in the spring and summer seasons, so the months
of April through August are without doubt within the “early life history stages present”
period. The earliest spawning species in Illinois’ inland waters is the harlequin darter
Etheostoma histrio,
which is believed to spawn as early as February. The harlequin
darter is found in Illinois in the Embarras River between the towns of Charleston and
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Newton and in the Wabash River between Beau Woods State Park and the town of
Rising Sun. It is reasonable that the “early life history stages present” should be
considered to begin in February in these two river reaches to afford protection to the
harlequin darter, unless this species proves to be relatively tolerant to ammonia.
Elsewhere
in the waters of Illinois, exclusive of Lake Michigan, the earliest
spawning species are most probably members of the Esocidae, the grass pickeral
Esox
americanus
and the northern pike
E. lucius.
These two esocids probably typically initiate
spawning in most of their Illinois range in March. Consequently, designating March as
the beginning of the “early life history stages present” period in waters where the
harlequin darter is not found is warranted.
Illinois fish species that spawn as late in-the year as September include the sand
shiner
Notropis ludibundus,
banded killifish
Fundulus diaphanous,
and mosquitofish
--Gambusia affinis.
However, time should be permitted for the young of these species to
grow out of the most sensitive developmental stages, so it appears justifiable to extend
the “early life history stages present” period through October.
Two species that reportedly spawn in winter were not used to determine when
early life history stages are present for the following reasons. The burbot
Lota lota
has
been found in the Illinois River. It is thought to spawn during the winter, but it is doubtful
that this species reproduces in any Illinois waters with the exception of Lake Michigan.
The spring cavefish
Chologaster agassizi
may spawn at various times of the year,
including winter, but this species is subterranean and unlikely to be affected by ammonia
in discharges.
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In summary, the “early life history stages not present” period should be
considered to be November through February in most of the state. In waters where the
harlequin darter occurs, however, the “early life history stages present” period should be
considered to be November through January unless it can be shown that this species is
relatively tolerant to ammonia. The “early life history stages not present” period could be
extended through February in harlequin darter waters if this species is not very sensitive
to ammonia.
The 1999 Ammonia Update suggests the use of a third criterion, a 4-day average
that should not exceed
2.5
times the CCC. I believe that there is justification for this
“subchronic” ammonia criterion. It will afford an additional level of protection for the
state’s aquatic biota that is not present in the existing law.
IV.
Use of the
50th percentile pH to calculate chronic effluent standards:
Stephan et al. (1984) defined USEPA’s general guidelines for deriving numerical
national water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic organisms and their uses. This
document established USEPA’s intent in regard to water quality criteria development.
The 1999 Ammonia Update is an example of the mechanics of water quality criteria
development for a particular toxic—ammonia. According to Stephan et al. (1984),
“. .
the concentration ofa pollutant in a body ofwater can be above the CCC without causing
an unacceptable effect if (a) the magnitudes and durations of the excursions above the
CCC are appropriately limited and (b) there are compensating periods of time during
which the concentration is below the CCC.” The 1999 Ammonia Update approach
establishing a subchronic standard effectively accomplishes (a) above—it limits the
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magnitudes and durations of excursions above the CCC. This protection is not present
under current law.
Since unionized ammonia is considered the more toxic form, solutions become
more toxic at elevated pH values. This is an important consideration when protecting
organisms from lethal -concentrations. Thus, a very conservative
75th
percentile pH is
used to calculate effluent standards to meet acute criteria. However, chronic effects deal
with important yet less harmful responses, such as effects on growth. The intent of the
CCC is to prevent unacceptable chronic effects, such as unacceptable effects on growth.
By using the
50th
percentile pH, excursions above the CCC will be completely
compensated for by periods when pH is below the
50th
percentile. Thus, a chronic effect,
such as reduced growth, will be no worse on average than is considered acceptable, based
on the CCC.
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The establishment of the subchronic criterion will provide the level of protection
against extended duration and high magnitude excursions above the CCC as described by
Stephan et al. (1984) (see (a) above). The subchronic standard and the protection it
provides are not present under the current law. This alone provides a great deal of
justification for modification of the current law. The
50th
percentile pH will ensure that
the CCC is met on average, also consistent with the intent of the CCC as described by
Stephan et al. (1984) (see (b) above).
Also, the overall approach used in the 1999 Ammonia Update for chronic
ammonia criteria development is superior to that of 1985 Ammonia Guidance. In the
1985 Ammonia Guidance, chronic water quality criteria were derived from estimates of
chronic effects threshold concentrations, or the geometric mean of the lower and upper
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chronic limits; i.e., the highest concentration in a test that did not cause an unacceptable
adverse effect and the lowest concentration that caused an unacceptable adverse effect,
respectively. There is a high degree of statistical and scientific uncertainty in estimates
of chronic effects threshold concentrations using this method. In the 1999 Ammonia
Update, chronic criteria are set by interpolating a single value (the EC2O) from a
concentration-toxicity relationship developed from an entire data set. Thus, in the 1985
Ammonia Guidance chronic criteria are determined using only two data points taken
from the portion of the concentration-toxicity relationship where statistical error and
scientific uncertainty are high. In the 1999 Ammonia Update, an entire data set (that
includes values with lower statistical error rates and higher scientific certainty) is used to
develop chronic criteria.
V.
Mussels
USEPA Region V has provided a document with a list of studies examining
ammonia toxicity in mussels, due to concerns that the 1999 Ammonia Update did not
adequately address this taxonomic group. The vast majority ofthe referenced studies are
not published in the peer-reviewed literature, and most certainly had not been subjected
to USEPA procedures or public comment regarding their suitability for inclusion in data
bases for water quality criteria development. By my count, 13 works were referenced
and only two of those were published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. I am a
coauthor (Goudreau et al. 1993) of one of the two published papers. Because of my
familiarity with that work, I was somewhat surprised that the LC5U value we obtained
was included in the proposed mussel database without any comment regarding its
appropriateness. Our study was cutting edge research at the time, the first study to
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examine ammonia toxicity in larval (glochidia) mussels. However, the toxic response we
measured, closure of the valves, occurred in up to
50
of the control glochidia, a
problem we described in the paper. According to generally accepted guidelines for
toxicity tests (USEPA 1991), no more than 10 of control group animals should show
the toxic response, if a toxicity test is to be considered valid. Some mention of the
problem we encountered with control animals should at least have been method. I was
also surprised to read in the document provided by Region V USEPA that, “There were
no applicable acute:chronic ratios for sublethal ammonia impacts to freshwater mussels”,
because we reported both an EC5O value and an LC5O value from which an acute-chronic
ratio for mussels could have been obtained. It should be mentioned that our Goudreau et
al. (1993) paper was considered in the 1999 Ammonia Update, but it did not affect the
outcome ofchronic criteria that were developed.
-Given the lack ofboth USEPA and public review, as well as a lack of peer review
by the scientific community for most of the mussel studies provided in the document
from Region V, I do not believe there is compelling evidence regarding the tolerance of
mussels to ammonia to justify modification of criteria based on 1999 Ammonia Update at
this time.
VI.
Summary Conclusions
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1.
The theoretical framework used to formulate Illinois’ ammonia water
quality criteria was based on USEPA guidelines; USEPA now questions the theoretical
basis ofthat framework.
2.
USEPA now proposes that models developed using empirical methods be
used to determine water quality criteria; these models are the best available for this
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purpose at this time, and I believe Illinois’ regulations should be revised according to the
new models proposed by USEPA.
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3.
The method for calculating chronic criteria that is described in USEPA’s
latest guidance is superior to the previous method and should be adopted in the state’s
regulations.
4.
I urge that Illinois establish another water quality criterion, the subchronic
criterion described in the latest USEPA guidance, to more fully protect the organisms in
the state’s waters.
5.
The early life history states present period, used to establish chronic
criteria, should be considered as March through October in most ofthe state.
6.
In
waters where the harlequin darter i-s found, the early life history stages
present period should be considered as February through October, unless this species
proves to berelatively insensitive to ammonia.
7.
Lastly, using the
50th
percentile pH for calculating effluent limits to meet
chronic ammonia criteria is consistent with current USEPA guidance.
Robert J. Sheehan
Professor ofFisheries in Zoology
Assistant Director, CFRL
Associate Director, Illinois Aquaculture Research & Demonstration Center
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Goudreau, S.E., R.J. Neves, and R.J. Sheehan. 1993. Effects of sewage treatment
plant effluents on mollusks in the upper Clinch River, Virginia. Hydrobiologia
252:211-230.
Sheehan, R.J. and M. Konikoff. 1998. Wetlands and fisheries resources of the
Mississippi River. Pages 628-647, Chapter 40 in S.K. Majumdar, E.W. Miller,
and F.P. Brenner, Editors; Wetlands and Associated Systems. Pennsylvania
Acadamy ofScience, Harrisburg, PA.
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Sheehan, R.J. and W.M. Lewis. 1986. Relationships between the toxicity of
aqueous ammonia solutions, pH, ammonia salt formulations, and water balance in
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Table
1.
Spawning periods for fishes in Illinois.
SPECIES
COMMON NAME
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ILLINOIS
SPAWNING PERIOD
bdellium
Ohio lamprey
Early spring
- Chestnut lamprey
Late May to June
Northern brook lamprey
Early May
Silver lamprey
May and June
aepyptera
Least brook lamprey
Late March
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American brook lamprey
April or May
marinus*
Sea lamprey
April to July (introduced into Illinois waters)
fulvescens
Lake sturgeon
May and June
albus
Pallid sturgeon
May and June
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Shovelnose pallid sturgeon
-
April to June
spathula
Paddlefish
April and May
oculatus
Spotted gar
Late April and May
Longnose gar
Late April and May
Shortnose gar
Mid May to July
Alligator gar
May
Bowfin
April to June
American eel
Spawns in the ocean
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Alabama shad
May to June
Skipjack herring
Late April to late June
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Alewife
June into August
cepedianum
Gizzard shad
April to June
Threadfin shad
Throughout the summer
Goldeye
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May
Mooneye
Late March to April
artedii*
Cisco -
November (only introduced populations in
Illinois outside of Lake Michigan)
Lake whitefish
October and November
Bloater
January into March
Blackfin cisco
Winter (extirpated in Illinois)
cylindraceum*
Round whitefish
Fall (maybe extirpated in Illinois waters)
fontinalis*
Brook trout
Fall and winter
Lake trout
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October
mykiss*
Rainbow trout
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Fall and spring spawning stocks (introduced
into Illinois)
Brown trout
November to December (introduced into
Illinois waters)
kisutch*
Coho salmon
Winter, but can be variable (introduced into
Illinois waters)
Chinook salmon
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Winter, but can be variable
Rainbow smelt
Spring spawner (introduced into the great
lakes and other Illinois waters)
Mudminnow
April and later; probably dependent on
floodplain inundations for spawning
Grass pickeral
March and April
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Table
1.
Spawning periods for fishes in Illinois (cont.)
SPECIES
COMMON NAME
ILLINOIS
SPAWNING PERIOD
E. lucius
Northern pike
March
E. masquinongy
Muskellunge
March and April (widely stocked, but natural
pqpulations in Illinois, if any, probably
extirpated)
Carassius auratus
Goldfish
Late March through June
Cyprinella lutrensis
Red shiner
Late May to August
-
C. spiloptera
Spotfin shiner
Early June to mid-August
C. venusta
Blacktail shiner
June into August
C. whipplei
Steelcolor shiner
June to mid-August
Ctenopharyngodon della
Grass carp
May to July (introduced into Illinois waters)
Hypophthalmichthys
molotrix
Silver carp
Spring through summer (introduced into Illinois
waters)
H. nobilis
Bighead carp
Summer; increases in river stage (introduced
-
into Illinois waters)
Notemigonus crysoleucas
Golden shiner
April to early June
Semotilus atromaculatus
Creek chub
April and May
-
Couesius plumbeus*
Lake chub
April and May
Nocomis biguttatus
-
Hornyhead chub
Late April through June
N. micropogon
River chub
April through June
-
Macrhybopsis aestivalis
Speckled chub
Late May to August
-
M. gelida
Sturgeon chub
May to late August
M. gracilus
Flathead chub
July to August
M. meeki
Sicklefin chub
Unknown (large river species)
Hybopsis amblops
-
Bigeye chub
May through June
H. storeriana
Silver chub
Unknown
-
Erimystax x-punctatus
Gravel chub
April
-
Osopoeodus emiliae
Pugnose minnow
Late.June
-
Rhinichthys atratulus
Blacknose dace
Late April through July
R. cataractae
Longnose dace
April through June
-
Luxilus chrysocephalus
Striped shiner
Late April into June
L. cornutus
Common shiner
Late April into June
Lythrurus ardens
Rosefin shiner
Late April through June
L. fumeus
Ribbon shiner
June
L. umbratilis
Redfin shiner
Mid May to early August
Phenacobius mirabilis
Suckermouth minnow
Late April into August
Notropis amnis
Pallid shiner
April
N. anogenus
Pugnose shiner
May to June
N. atherinoides
Emerald shiner
June into July
-
N. blennius
River shiner
Late June into August
N. boops
Bigeye shiner
Early June to Late August
N. buchanani
Ghost-shiner
Late April to early July
N. chalybaeus
Ironcolor shiner
Late June to July
N. dorsalis
Bigmouth shiner
June and July
N. heterodon
Blackchin shiner
-
Unknown
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- Table 1. -Spawning periods for fishes in Illinois (cont.)
-
SPECIES
COMMON NAME
ILLINOIS
SPAWNING PERIOD
N. heterolepis
Blacknose shiner
June though July
N. hubbsi
Bluehead shiner
May
-
N. hudsonius
Spottail shiner
May, and June, August possible
N. rubellus
Rosyface shiner
May to early June
N. shumardi
Silverband shiner
Late summer
N. ludibundus
Sand shiner
Late April through September
N. texanus
Weed shiner
August
N. volucellus
Mimic shiner
June into August
N. wickliffi
Channel shiner
June and July
Ericymba buccata
Silverjaw minnow
March to July
Phoxinus erythrogaster
Southern redbelly dace
Late April through June
Dionda nubile
Ozark minnow
May and June
Hybognathus argyritis
Western silvery minnow
- June to July
-
H. hankinsoni
Brassy minnow
- Late May in Wisconsin
H. hayi
Cypress minnow
April or later
H. nuchalis
-
Silvery minnow (Mississippi
silvery minnow)
June
H. placitus
Plains minnow
June to July
Pimephales notatus
Bluntnose minnow
May through August
P. promelas
Fathead minnow
May through August
P. vigilax
Bullhead minnow
Late May into July
Campostoma anomalum
Common stoneroller
April through May
C. olegolepis
Largescale stoneroller
--
April through May (assumed to be similar to
common stoneroller)
Cycleptus elongates
Blue sucker
Unknown (found in medium to large rivers)
lctiobus bubalus
Smallmouth buffalo
May and June
-
I. cyprinellis
Bigmouth buffalo
--
-
May and June (assumed to be similar to the
smallmouth buffalo)
I. niger
Black buffalo
May and June (assumed to be similar to other
buffalo spp.)
Cyprinus carpio
Common carp
Late March through June (introduced into
Illinois waters)
Carpiodes carpio
River carpsucker
May through July
C. cyprinus
Quillback (carpsucker)
Mid April into June
C. velifer
.
l-Iighfin carpsucker
Unknown; probably late spring through mid
summer
Moxostoma anisurum
Silver redhorse
-
March into May
M. carinatum
River redhorse
April and May
M. duquesnei
Black redhorse
April and May
M. erythrurum
Golden redhorse
April into June
M. macrolepidotum
Shorthead redhorse
April into July
M. valenciennesi
Greater redhorse
Extirpated in Illinois
Hypentelium nigricans
Northern hog sucker
April and May
Catostomus catostomus*
Longnose sucker
Unknown (early spring probable)
3

Table 1. Spawning periods for fishes in Illinois (cont.)
SPECIES
COMMON NAME
ILLINOIS
SPAWNING PERIOD
Ameiurus catus
White catfish
June and July
A. melas
Black bullhead
May and June
A. natalis
Yellow bullhead
May and June
A. nubulosus
Brown bullhead
May and June
Ictalurus furcatus
Blue catfish
June
I. punctatus
Channel catfish
June
Pylodictis olivaris
Flathead catfish
Late June and July
Noturus eleutherus
Mountain madtom
June and July
N. exilis
Slender madtom
June and July
N. flavus
Stonecat
June and July
N. gyrinus
Tadpole madtom
June and July
N. miurus
-
Brindled madtom
June
-
N. nocturnus
Freckled madtom
Late June into July
N. stigmosus
Northern madtom
June
Chologaster agassizi
Spring cavefish
January through March
Aphredoderus sayanus
Pirate perch
April and May
Percopsis omiscomaycus
Trout-perch
April to August
Lota lota*
Burbot
January to March
Fundulus catenatus
Northern studfish
May into July
F. diaphanous
Banded killifish
April to September
F. dispar
Starhead topminnow
May and June
F. notatus
Blackstripe topminnow
Late spring and summer
-
F. olivaceus
Blackspotted topminnow
May and into summer
Gambusia affinis
Mosquitofish
Mid April to September
Labidesthes sicculus
Brook silverside
May into August
Culaea inconstans
Brook stickleback
Late spring and early summer
Pungitius pungitius*
Ninespine stickleback
Summer in Canada
Myoxocephalus
quadricornis*
Fourhorn sculpin
June
-
Cottus bairdi
Mottled sculpin
March through June
C. carolinae
Banded sculpin
March through April
C. cognatus*
Slimy sculpin
Unknown (assumed to be similar to other
Cottus spp.)
C. ricei*,
Spoonhead sculpin
Fall (not known with certainty)
Morone chrysops
White bass
April or May
-
M. mississippiensis
Yellow bass
April or May
M. saxatilis
Striped bass
Does not reproduce in IL
Micropterus dolomieui
Smallmouth bass
May and June
M. punctulatus
Spotted bass
May and June
M. salmoides
Largemouth bass
May and June
Lepomis cyanellus
Green sunfish
May and into summer
L. gibbosus
Pumpkinseed
May and into summer
4

- iable 1. Spawning periods for fishes in Illinois (cont.)
SPECIES
COMMON NAME
ILLINOIS
SPAWNING PERIOD
Warmouth
May and into summer
-
Orangespotted sunfish
May and into summer
Bluegill
-
May ~nd into summer
Longear sunfish
May to August
Redear sunfish
May and into summer
Spotted sunfish
May into August
Bantam sunfish
Late May
rupestris
Rock bass
-
May
annularis
White crappie
April through June
Black crappie
April through June
macropterus
Flier
March into May
zonatum
Banded pygmy sunfish
April and May
-
canadense
Sauger
March into-June
Walleye
March and April
Yellow perch
March through June
Logperch
Mid March to mid July
Gilt darter
Extirpated in Illinois; would spawn during the
summer
Blackside darter
April to June
-
Slenderhead darter
Early June
Dusky darter
Late May to early July
River darter
April and May
Stargazing darter
-
Unknown (probably should not be considered
endemic to Illinois waters)
asprella
Crystal darter
March
clara
Western sand darter
Thought to be a summer spawner
Eastern sand darter
-
-
Unknown, but later than most of the darters, if
consistent with A. clara
asprigene
Mud darter
March into May
Greenside darter
March and April
Rainbow darter
March into June
Bluebreast darter
May and June
Bluntnose darter
Early May
Iowa darter
April
Fantail darter
April into June
Slough darter
Late May
-
Harlequin darter
February and March
Stripetail darter
Late April
Least darter
April through June
- Johnny darter
March into June
-
Cypress darter
Mid March to June
Orangethroat darter
Mid March through May
Spottail darter
Late March to June
5

Table 1. Spawning periods for fishes in Illinois (cant.)
I
ILLINOIS
SPECIES
COMMON NAME
SPAWNING PERIOD
E. zonale
Banded darter
April into July
Aplodinotus grunniens
Freshwater drum
Late April through July or later
Aplodinotus grunniens
Freshwater drum
Late April through July or later
* No naturally reproducing populations in waters receiving NPDES permit discharges.
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logical condition of the fisk (Fry 1967. 197):
Hotchinoe 1976). and tolerances under satoral
condilions coo differ markedly frssm (hove in the
laboratory (Moore 1942). Furthermore, subtelkat
iohibiting effects of hypoxia and hyperlhermia
555
frowtb (Stewart ct al. 1967: Bejda et a) 19921.
reproductioti and recruitment )lluhhs 964: Gcrk-
ing et ol. 1979: Heodersoo and Brown 1985). sod
hohttat seleclion (Ultoch et ot. (979; Belle Ct a).
(987) moy be more ecologically iefloeotial thao
direct mortality. However, oven laboratory mea-
surenseots that are too simplistic to precisely pre’
dirt absoiste values of temperatures or dissolves)
ooygen levels that ore limiting to fish in oatsical
environments may still be used in a relative mao-
ner to disbisguish loteruet from sensitive species.
If me 005ume that rankings of species by tketr to)-
erance to lethal phycicochemical conditions re-
main the same under both laboratory and held dIn-
dilions. aed if we further assume that sublethal
levels of hypooia aud kyperthnrmia affeel sensitive
species more slrongly than tolerant species under
eqaiouleot conditions, then tolerance measure-
ments fur a group of species vhottld predict those
species which mill be most snccessful In the held
soder varioox physicochemical cooditions.
ill
t~2~tO4
(@1-U (/~(L~M
Influences of Hypoxia and Hyperthermia on
Fish Species Composition in Headwater Streams
MARTIN A. SMALE
Missouri Cooperative Fists utad Wildlife Seororch Unit
The
School ofNatural lteaonrcea. Uescrroiey
set
Missouri
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1/2 Stophest.r
Nell.
~olumhia, Mi.vstturi 652(1.
1)54
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CHABLBS
F.
RABBNI
Nasiosol Biological .Sercice. Mis-oouri Coopeeatiee Fish asid Wildlife Research Ustis
The
Schoo/ ofNaeoral Resaoreea, Uoicrcsirs ofMiacoori
AbstracL—Indices of hyposia and hyperthormia tetrraocr for Missouri fish assrseldages once
bused on laboratory meanuremeuss of
lethal
dissoIynd osygen soneentratious and temperatures.
combined mith field measures of she relative abaudufiMfibf tdteront and sensitive species. Fish
assrmklagos andeuteeme phynicecheminatconditiaos were monitsend over
3—4
years as IS sites
so heudouter streams in the Prairie. Gourk Border, and Death regions of Minoouni. Gsygeo minima
ranged from 0.8106.8
mg/L.
and temperature manimu ranged from 9.6 so 35.7*C; nayfen minima
at study sites were not correlated with temperaturemasima. Hyponia tolerances of fish assemblages
mere strongly cumolated with minimum stream osygen eoncentratiuus and varied cuecordassly
with regional, longitudinal, and temporal grudieotu in stream osygrn minima. Hyperthermis tel.
erunceu of fish assemblages were not correlated with manimssm stream temperatures, nor were
regional, tongitudisat, or temporal differences in hyperthrrtniu tolerances coucordantwith satiation
in snmpnratare masima. Anin scorns from a detmeoded correspondence analysis of species fm.
quenaieu mere atrungty correlated with dissoloed 055gm minima foe alt 18 sitos. hut cuSs scares
correlated with temperature masima only at the four weII.onygeeased sites. Low dissolved onygrn
cools had a substantial effect on the composition offish assemblages at most sites. hut maaintum
somprrstoreu influonccd assemblages only at Ike few sisos without severe Insoto of hypesia.
Measurements of Ike tolorascns of fish species
to 1cm dissolved oxygen conceetcalicos end high
Iemperatnrcx ace a potentially valoable tool fcc
tesling hypntheses Shout Ike effects of estreme
physicochemical conditions oo fink assemblages
and for evaluating the effects of organic and thor.
mal pollution (Warren et nI. 1973: Magnuson 01
al. 1979; Armour (99)). lx the held, speciev’spe-
cific differences in modality. absndsnce. and din’
Iributioo in relalioe to hyposia (Thomson 1925;
Katz and Gauho 1952; Larimore el al. 1959; Gam-
moo and Reidy 1981: Cobte 1902) or hyperthermia
(Bailey 1955; Mcparbuoe 1976; ‘Cramer 1977; Mat-
thews and Moneys 1979; Boaodt eta). 1900; Mat’
thaws et sI, 19021 have been chsersrd. But fda-
lively few field studies have supported held oh-
sereations milk laboratory tolerance measure-
meols (Lowe club. 1067; Malshemn 1907; Cech et
al. 1990). The complexity of environmental chol’
lenges faced by fish in nalaral situations deco not
inspire confidence io tho applicabilily of appar-
ently simplistic and oeduclicnint laboratory toler-
ance dots. Lethal conditions ef hypania and hy-
yerthermia vary with a uumker of socncdury en-
virncmentol fccbors, us well as with the phynin’

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SMALlAND SAISNI
.
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PNYI!COCNIMICAL INPLUINCII ON PuN ASIIMIuLAOII
713
In a coecaffenl labarabory sbody (Smalo and Ba-
keni 1995, this inane), one measured hypoxia and
hypcrthet’miu Inlorances for 35 fish species com-
mnn(y found in headwoler olrnumx in Ike mid.
western United States. In thin held study, our pri-
mary objective was to determine whethee ouch tol~
orange me050remenba predicted the success of dif-
fefeol species, melalive to each of the osher species
tested, nnder natural gondilissna which encont-
passed strong gradieuts of bosh hypoxia sod hy-
pemnhermiu. Bather thon examine Ike response of
individual species to physicnchcmieul gradienbo,
me developed two ucsembluge-leeel indices Ihul
expressed the composite kyponis or hypershermia
tolerances of all fish specien in the usnomblogoc
we investigated. Thece two indicco of hypoxia tol-
erance and hypershermia tolcraace mere then an-
alyzed in relation In geographical and lemponul
differences in streans dissolved onygon minima
and sempemolure mosimo.
We restricted the abudy to heudmutec roachea,
wherg estreme physicochemizul condisioos are
most likely to occur (Winger 1981; Matthews
1987), Tn ensure on adequaterange of dream con-
ditions, we selected siles in three of Misxost-i’n
most enlensise physingruphic regions; the Proirie
region of norlhemn Missouri, the Ozark eegioo ef
southern Missnari, und a geographically inter-
mediule Gzsrk Border region (Thom and Wilson
1980). Within each rogiun, we also contracted coo-
dilions uod assemblugen al opotreum sites with
those observed at downstrcsm sites 10 test for Ion-
gitodisal effects. Additionally, secede dronghs in
northern and central Missouri (NOAA 1990) dur-
ing Ihe middle of our clody period eoohlnd us to
examine bcmpvrsl changes in the frequencies of
tolerant and intolerant fishes under onusuolly harsh
physicochemigal conditions.
We developed she stody design cv shot we could
psrsue too secondary objectives. Fimnl. we Ic-
crIed sites Ihut were typirol of hoadmater streams
Ihronghnul the stale; Ihedefore, Ihis sbudy was a
sorsey of the influeoee of kyposia and hypeosher-
mia on fish assemblages in small nonochun streams
io Missouri. Secondly, we investigated whether
physicochemicul condilions and their eculogicsl
consequences were rssdomly distributed throagh-
oat the stole or were patterned according 10 re-
gionul and longitudinal differences in slreum con-
ditions.
Methsds
Study site Iorosiesa.’—We monitored physieo-
chemical conditions and fish npeeien composition
ol IS siles in Ike Salt, Coisro, Lutsine, and Gus-
ronude iced druinages of Missouri (Figuro I).
Siten mere chosen In he representatise of stoeumn
in Ike Pfaif 1g. Ozafk Rordef, and Ozark pltynio-
graphic regions (Ffiicgee 1975; Thom and Wilson
1900). In contrual In Fruirie region sleeoms. the
steeper terrain, more permeable soils, and reduced
ugricnlturul usage that typify Gzark region watec-
sheds resalt in nbcrams with more nsahle flow, rel-
atively low turbidity. grealer mean substrate par-
bide size, und increased riffle—pool development
(Hoewitz 1975; MGNB 1986). The Ozark Border
region represents an ecotonal Icuosition between
Prairie and Gzork conditions. Fhysiogmaphie. land
use, and stream characterislien in Grark Border
wuborshedo were Iypicolly intermediate between
those in Gzuck and Prairie watersheds.
Sitea mere assigned bo regional groups (Table 1)
on the basis of similumilies iou somber of physical,
chemical, and hydrological characteristics (Babeni
and Smule 1991). The Lumine and Cuisre river
drainageu included both Prairie and Ocuck Border
siles; Ike Salt River (Prairie) sod Gusconude River
(Ozark) sites were all milhio a single cegion. The
foam Ozark sites were added to the sbody in the
spring of 1988; all olher sites were menitored froos
the spring of 1957 through Ike fall of 1990.
Sites were rilso selected nod grooped by their
longitudinal (apsnreuhs servos downstream) posi-
hans in she drainage. Go lkmee short sseeosns, only
one study site was established. On all other
streams, as npstreum site wan located near the
point farnhosl upstream ot which we expected to
find permanent slunding mater inhabited by fish.
and a d000slroam site wusestublished where Ike
drsinoge urea of the ssmenm was feom too to four
times larger.
This
longitudinal comparison won
mi-
bially inbendod In conts’usl ckarscleristies ofstream
reaches with a perm000nl flow wilh reaches wilh
inlermitbost flows, hat severe drooghls during
much of the study resolled in no-flow conditions
hat persisted for considerable periods at all bat
the four Gzack region sites.
Sites mere boculed io intermilsent or first-order
reaches and Iheir drainage areus (Table II, us meu~
sored from 1:24,000 scale U.S. Geo)ogical Survey
topographic maps, ranged from 600 to 11,000 ha.
Study sites consisted of a 200—250-m-loag secrian
of stream that we judged to he moephologicolly
typical of olmeams in the sicinicy. The same In-
cutiono were monilored at oIl siles for Ike durotion
of the study.
Mon/tssr/og of p/tyaicorhosuiral rsstdilionz.—
Monitoring of stream dissolved oxygen cnncen-
Ftnnec 1.—Lorstiens of she stody streams and their dnsinsgo busies in Missouri. The kosudirr for the Gcask
regian Ishaded oreal is taken foam MGNB 159861. end sites in both tkn Goark and Geamk Bonder groups is skis
atudy are encompassed by this boundary.
trutions and lemperalorex was schodoled specifi-
cally for the purpose of meosaring Ihe mosl en-
treme conditions that occorred at each nile in each
yeue. Dosiog 1907 and 1988, esygon concenlra-
lions and temperasures were measured frequeslly
(usually at Iexnt once per month between May
ussd
Gclober( as selected siseu and undermeteorologicol
and hydrological conditions which were us varied
us possible. Also. several locations wnre mvoi-
bred 01 each Oile in nrder In determine she degree
of within-silo sonialion. Thin initial phase of in-
tensive and frequent sampling at some sites clearly
established thus extremes of mm dissolved osygen
concenlostioon and high temperatures consistently
ocenrced in midsummer (late Jano lhrnsgh early
September) on worm, moslly sunny days (air tom-
perabures above 29*C) following enbended perinds
of minimum or no flow in the streams.
At Ike demaioing oiled, aod al all silos in 1988
und 1909. phynicnckemieal menibnring man con-
ducted when Ihose ouleeme meteorological and hy-
drological cooditions occurred. Although dis-
solved oxygen aud lrmperutsre measoremeats
were often mudeal other times, only dola from the
stoc
or Iwo doses per year per silo when extreme
rondiliuns prcsoiled wore used in thin analysis. All
the sites in she same douinage basin were moni-
bnmod en the some day. has difforossl drainages wore
monitored on different dsys. Sites were sisisod fse-
qoensly skrnsgkoos the spring, summer, and fall.
which onaktgd us Its observe okee streamfiow ci-
therceusod or man exceptionally leo. Once stream-
flows suhnidod to what me enpecsed so ho their
lowest levels of Ike vummoL or monitoced ceo-
disions in ouch of the drainages oven the follnwing
2 weeks. At mvst silos in most yoams, measure-
Otonln were repeatod later in Iho somtaor if low-
flow or on-flew conditions persisseti. Monitoriug
was scheduled only when weather condilions mere
mossly sunny and muuimam aim temperatures were
between 29 and 33eC
Dissolved oxygen concentrations and tempers-
tunes wore neeusssred with s polarogrophic Oxygrlt
meter calibrated al the beginning of euch day hy
.~
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OMALh AND BASENI
715
Taas.e I —Dissolved oxygen minima,
tempeeansne maaima.
sod
suteeseon indes vsluoa for study sites gmsped by
mginn
ned
by Inegisodinsl
position
ia nanums. Physicookemisat values ond tolerance iedos
ystoes
given ace osmngsn
fur the
3—4-year
eady period; minimum and maaimom
values oceseetnu
in thin pedod are also given fortolerance iodnn
naiaes.
Mean
naco,,
laiO akkenotssi,.op
0 statistic
sees
thai
0
Mess
teo~
Bspasia
oinbnsns masimsm
tstmaocn loden
twos-s
Cd
Moan
ttae5o
itypcsheeeia
tstoaooo mdcc
Meso
Raoee
Fealfle apetoeasn 8resap
Middte Path
arit 04oo
IMP II
snu
n_os
24,6
0.09
0.64—6.77
37.5
303—37.6
T,to (Seek ff1
is
t.nno
2.90
273
0.84
0.09—0.09
as.e
363—37.0
eathom Csook
leL II
1308
299
23.9
054
0.67-0.83
379
36.6—37.4
Onao Creek
iRe II
000
1.05
24.7
0.79
0.64—0.sS
70.0
36.0—37.7
Sonsts Smack Pies Creek IFC II
1,200
LOS
20.3
0.65
0.63—0.71
37.1
20.9-37.4
cheap acreage
Inn
23.0
0.73
30.0
Prairie dsnnsbeeam group
Middb
Posh Sell
emonm IMP 2)
0,600
3.40
26.8
0.90
0.78—ton
36.6
36.4—27.2
Middle
Fmsh
Sail niom IMPS)
4,000
2.23
25.4
0.04
0.73-9.95
36.0
36.4—37.2
Sinkers Crock
t~L21
7.990
2.so
2.5.6
0.00
0.08—lot
35.5
76.2—57.5
Gecsp asnono
238
23.0
0.07
76.0
Dark Ponder
apatornsn
nroop
Opting
Poth
Ceeok
laP I)
2.200
3.00
26.8
0.90
0.11—0.99
36.6
36.4—36.9
GeeseCreek ICIl
II
1,500
241
26.1
0.00
0.01—0.67
366
3n2—3s.n
Beenys Creek
lOt II
2,101
3.46
307
0.94
0.02—1.04
36.6
36.4—37.0
Geop avenge
3.23
27.9
0.89
30.0
Geork nsrdw danestreans goesap
Bess Cerek
IRE 21
3.000
4.01
27.0
nsa
0.52—I
.116
36.5
36.2—36.9
Spring
Posh Cneek ISP 21
7.700
3.11
30.1
0.99
0,95—1,119
36.5
354_35~
Socib Seasick P1st Creek IPC
21
sian
4.34
38.1
0.95
0.83—1.00
36.3
36.2—36.6
Gmspucssage
435
204
0.~1
36.7
.
Osodo Frisk (OP
II
3.500
4.00
24.3
1.10
1.56-1.17
30.a
33.3-35.2
005cm
Cerok
ISV II
3.0101
4.47
9.6
0.83
0.78—08~
30.3
35.O—3ft.3
Group aseesee
4.60
229
0.06
36.1
Gesek deseneloeam gmsnp
wools
Pork (OP
21
7,300
5.97
26.0
1.20
1.13—1.26
36.1
3t.s—3k.5
OoaeneCreek
ISV 21
,
11.200
4.37
36.6
1.18
.13-1.21
36.5
31.9-36.1
Gnspacossgc
3.17
25.6
1.19
36.0
Sites
en streams with more lao ceo site
are nsmkmnd oeooncaeisets
fore
speesosot
a
,tsocaeeaot t:,casiwt.
the air saluration method. Monibomiog slsoted at
ogre averoged and used us an index of extreme
dame and continued aetil slreums mere mostly
conditions us the site on the day Ihoy were mon~
shaded in bale afternoon, and woasoromenbs more
ibocod. When ostremes wore monilored more Ihun
made 01 apprux/msse)y 90-win ielervulo. Daring
once per yenr, these average doily enlromon were
no’flow periods, conditions often suried from Ic-
averaged to give on indea for the silo in a giVes
curios so localion within a silo, nod pools worn year The yearly aserogos foreach Silo were further
ofbon stratified,
Than
Iwo or three locations with
averaged to give mdcc volues of the lypical win-
typical conditions were monitored pen silo, sod
imom dissolved onygen concentration (DG~~5(
separate resdiogo were lakes within 10 cm of the
and maximum tempomolsre (Tmsnl for each of Ike
slmeaw surface end 10cm from the kolxow when-
10 siseS,
05cr strotified conditions were found.
Fish collection—We ssmpled fink in she apring
Only she lowest dissolved oxygen enOcoolfation
(April—May) und foIl (Seplembem—Odbnber)of each
and highesl tempeeoture
mocoeded
ot each of the
year Sites were subdivided into segments appros-
neserul locutions ond alcato monitored at each silo
iwately 25 m long, ond block nell were used to
during cock duy oeee used in this analysit. These
isolate ouch sogment. Segments were seiued milk
minimans
or monimunt salons from all locations a variety of minnow semen, depending on Ike
8HVOIC0C0BMICAL INPLUeNCO5 GM FISH AxxnMeLibGex
width and Shape of Ihe segment. Slmetched mesh
no meaningful effect on
reaulta. Untested species
siren were leun than I cm. Riffles wore oumpled
made up less thun 8
of the aSsemblages at 17 of
by kick~teiningfish
mb
nets unehorod aecons the
the IS xite.s. By nuhntiteting different specieS Id-
boltom of the cifte. We made three seine sweeps eraece Values, we foaod shnl untested species had
pee negmnee. and Ike fish captured in each sweep
no effeeb on the rankings of tolerance indes saloon
were recorded sopurately. Fink were identified to
when they eoestitosed less skae 10
of the oases’
species (Fflingem 1975), measured fur length, sod
plod assemblages. Howovnm. at one site bopslrnam
released.
Beosec Creek). tolerance index salam may be no-
Fish
inc/rice—TO rowpennule for specios-selee-
reliable becssae of eceeptionolly high freqoencies
live gear bios, we corrected the oumher caught fee
nsf
one untested species. the Ozark sculpso.
each species us each site by efficiency-of-capture
Sites were classed ieso sin stream gmups: up’
coefficients estimated from depletion eaten over the
stream and downstream sites in each of the three
three succesSive Seine OweOp5. Depletion rates
regions. Site and group means were calculated for
were first eslimssed for each species in each sng-
msutmom dsssotvod osygee f~0mintvalues, mao-
mont sampled (GeLury 1947; Zippin 1958) then
swum lempcrasofe (Tmae) values, and for hypoxia
averaged for all the oegmonlx and somples from
and hypertheemia tolerance indsros. Cormelalion
siles of similar rize and morphology. Geplotion
coeffirtests (Steel and Tonrse 1980) were used 10
rates were converted to efficiency coefficionte, and
test relationships among these loan physsrorhem-
sho nambor of fish cuptarod for oszh species as
icul and bsotsc eden vuluen. Mean solues for
ouch she
won
mulniplind by she ioseoso of this do-
gooups were compared withoat stalistiesl tests of
efficient. For example. we found thut in npstreom
significance because of she Ismitod sample size pee
Prairie silos, three seine sweeps cuptared, ~ an-
group and unbalanced dcsigo. Temporal changes
oruge, 37
of the johnny darters and 07
of Iho
were ssnnssnd by comparseg site means and group
golden shiners (scieulifiz names are gisen in the
means for drought yours 11988 and 1969) aod non-
appendix). Numbers esught for each species were
dnooght years (1987 and (990).
divided by 0 37 and 0.S7, mnspedlisely. lo eom-
Ordiofirissn ottsslysi.s.—In the second step in the
pnooole for diffemencen in captureefficioncy. These
analysts. we used dotreeded cnrronpondenre anal’
s
corrected numbers were then conserbed In melulive
yess (DCA) bo ordinate cpocien frequency lists
skondonco (species frequency) mt/males for all
from the It stIes. Mean fmequencses from the 3—4
species captured alIke nile. These frequnocies are
years of nompling mere used in the ondisulion, and
listed in she uppendin.
results were calculated by the composer program
Relative freqonnc/es of tolerant and intolerant
CANOCO lsemBcual. 1908). Ordtnatsno g000raled
species in eoeh common/by were expressed by Ike
a net of a- and y-coordinotes, or an/s ncoros. for
hyponio
odes and the hypemthromiu inden. An
°
ouch silo sack Ihat assemblages wilh very similar
den same for a site woo calcslated by assigning o
eomposslsons plotted closely sogethee and dissiw-
tolerance vulue to cock spccies—the wean crilical
ibm assemblages plotted farshoc apart lGaoch 982.
diosolsod oxygen conceetmodon or temperature
Aossin 1985). Grdssatton reduces a large maIns
from osr lahorasory lests (I/sled/n Ike appendix)—
of frequency-ky-sample meanuremonls to a mock.
sod molliplying /1 by she frequency of occarrence
mnro snunageuhle sob ef coordinates, whtrh ran
(ass decimul fmuction) for shut species. Those prod-
then he analyzed 10 rotation 1st ensseosmental gra~
ucss were then summed (cm all species present ~
dteols of tosenosl IlemBruak 1987).
We calculated linear regression eqaalions forrr-
the sste. In offedl. Ike indeo salac represented an
(alionships between ordinal/on anis scores and
eslimuso of the criticol dissolved onygon eoncon-
stroow GO,5m5 sod T5555 values. Nonstgnsficaol
irasiossor Iemperatcrn for tho average fish in each
correlasionc memo discarded, and significant rela~
sionshipn
were used to build a deseriplise model
only
We
35
made
of she
lsboralomy
St species
solenonee
capburodmeasumemenbsdaring lhss fieldfor
shot
s/no of
predicted
contmunisy
ordinusion
composition..
coordinates,
from t)Otc,n
an
ropers’
55d
slody.Ihono
untestedIn
culcalatingspeciesthewereindices.overagewe osoumedin
their tolthat-
Twan salons.
erance so hypoxia sod hypnmthomm/u, und we nub-
Boults
stitnsed means of all measured species tolerance
Stream
Oxygen Mieiws
and
solsen for these unknown salons. In mont canon,
Ternperostare Moziosa
these onteoted species cOnslitused such a smoll por-
Silo means for GG,0~5values ranged from 0.8
lion of she community thaI this subotilutinn had
Id 6.0 mg/L, and moons for
Tm,n values ranged

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661)6168601
PHy0ICOCHEMICAL INFLUENCES GM
P1550
oSaEMnLAGex
717
Tons,e 2.—Comelsiien coeffieiensa (r) foe ertetianehipe
between n/to dra/nage sanee. pkynicoshnmieel saniaklns,
and soleosare indou salons; s/to means were send for each
sanishle. Signifiroos comnlabium ore marked with on 5.n.
tednk (df
Ifi. P160.01).
Mess
Mess
lees-
die’
pore. Hyponia
eoleed
tarn
toter’
Sue
serene
snsai.
5500
thdnete nmninia
mm
mites
Vsaisktn
ons
IDGoisI ff501
nslana
Mean diseotood osygon
minima IDGesel
0.77’
Meas ienspnoalasn masima
l1’,,~,l
0.51
0.27
Hypeais solersern irden
saleoe
0.77’
0.05’
0.37
Hppeokemme rolreercs
icons sOusa
553~ U.t3’
0.02
0.07’
Gedinadon
c-asia ecsno
0.07W
o.2a
Gedinatico y.uoie scene
099
0.70
from 19.6 so 30.7°C.Gionolved onygon us low on
0.0 mgfL and bempnmstares as high as 40°Cwere
foond at come locations. Silo moans for 00min
memo poorly cooreboted (r so 0.25,
P
0.051 with
wean Tmen values (Takbe 2). This noon-indepen-
dence indicated shot the warmest sines wore nob
necossarily Ike moat kyposie sites, nor wore cooler
sites bettor onygenaled.
There were lsmgo differences in GOmin saloon
bosweon regions and between upstream and down-
stream silos. Oxygen winiws mere lowest in Prai-
rie silos, intermedislo
itt
Ozark Border sites, oud
highest in Ozark silos (Table I). regiosul means
differing by 1.3—2.8 mgIL. Values for DOmin were
also 0.5—1.3 wg/L higher at downnbmeom silos in
all three regions. Site mean DOmin values were
positively correlated (r
O,77,
Pm
0.01) w/th the
drainuge areas of the sites (Table 2), which nd/-
outed a generel trend of increasing oxygen levels
m/lk inemoasing utresm size across all three
regions.
Regional and bongitodisol differences in rite
meao T~00values were not as consistent an for
DOmin values, Tempemsbunes wore warmest in
Ozark Border s/leo, which aseraged 2.9—5.fi’C
wormer than Pro/rio ond Ozark upstream sites and
2.d~b,s’Cwaomer Ihon Prairie and Ozark down-
stream sites. One upstream Ozark site was spring
fed and remained asypiesily cool, bob T~05values
for the three olhor Ozark sites were actually slight-
ly warmer Ihon for moss Prairie sites. Monimom
lemperosuros also wore 0.5—4.6°Chighom at down-
stmoum than as opssrosm sites in all three negicns.
Silo moan Tmso values were mildly correlated
(r
= 0.31,
P
0,05) with site druinage areas. Oen-
erolly, Tmss values tended In vary msme with in-
dividual nile characteristics. part/enlanly Ihe de-
gmee of riponian shading,
and
were nob as strongly
patterned with reg/onal or longitudinal differences,
Drought in the summers of 1980 and 1909 en-
sulsod in inemoaaod hypoxis and hyporthermia Ins-
els in Prairie and Ozark Border sites. Because
droaghls were not an intense en prolonged in Ike
Ozark Region (NOAA 19901 and Ocark stream-
flow persiuted lhroaghoot the study, mc ignpood
tompomol changes at she four Ocork s/sos, Ssroom-
flow ceased for enteusise periods during 1988 sod
1989 as all non-Ozark sites; in the more normal
years of I907 and 1990, enbeodeden-tow periods
wore limited so the apstream Prairie and some up-
stream Ozurk Border sites. Sbagnunt conditions
from low flows resulted in deemeosns in DOmis
values during 1980—1989, which asorogod (row
0.3 to 1.4
mg/L lower shun averages for 1907 ond
1990 (Figure 2). Temperatures were also higher
daring 1980—1909, with Tman values averaging
1.1—2.1°Chigher Ihan in nondrought years (Figaro
2). Generally, temporal changes /5 DOmie values
weeo smaller in mugs/lade than a/shoe regional or
longitudinal differences, hal temporul changes in
Tmsn salons were of comparable magnitude to geo-
graphical differences.
/sd/cea of !dypoS/a and Hypertlsennia
Mean hyponia loden values (Table I) rungod
from 0.69 to 1.20. a difference of 0.51, and hy-
perlhermia index values ranged fnom 35,90 Ia
37.13, a diffeecoco of 1.15. Across Ihe 18 s/ten as
whole, there was a osrang rolut/unokip between
hyponia mdcc values and stream DO~m5values
(F’tgsme 3). Silo moons mere nign/fleuntly correlat-
ed
(r
°
0.85,
P
16
0.01), wh/ch indicoted thaI
much higher proport/on of hypnx/s-tolenoet Spe-
cies occurred at silos w/th Ike Inweal 00mi5 values
and shot higher propentions of senoitise .specieo
ozcsrrod at the well-oxygestused silen. Esen within
each of the three regional groups, where thorn was
much less contrast in ta0nin 000dili005, hy-
poe/a indon soluno were positivelyzormelssed with
DOmmn levels.
Hypemthorm/a index values son/ed independent-
ly of Tm,n values (r so 0.02,
P
0.05; Figure 3).
The highest freqoenc/es of hyperthermia-tolerons
species did not occar alIke warmonl s/tes, norwere
sensitive species relosisely more ahondunt at cool-
ersites. When sites warn grouped by regioss. hy-
peexlterw/o iodoc values wore negatively cormolat-
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1950
1907
1900
iono
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YEAR
YEAR
Piecer 2.—Temporel trends in phynienekemical eosditiosn and talos-ance inden scones for upsteeaw and demo-
stream groopo at yea/rio and Oaank Bordee s/tes. Values for lab stream lempenataro man/ma and mel dissotsed osygov
minima are asenagee ofthe esimewe satsoe measured during the ynae ci all Iacuiivnn end dates from all otter sit
Ike groote. Soonon for/b) the kypenskenmie indes and(dl the hypnnis indes are nonning moans leom iwocsinsncclice
nomples, averaged for alt n/irs in the grasp.
-
37.2
sn.o
P
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30.4
on
38.0
.
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Reside
s/ten
Ozark bandersites
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MEAN
DISSOLVED
MAXIMUM (°
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OXYGEN
MINIMUM
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L’t
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Ficcae 3.—Seneos fun lab she hypenskorm/a eden end IbI she hyponie indes osoragod noon the doensino or sIr
atody for cock s/te in relat/on to site meon temperature masima and diunolned onygon minima.

718
SHALe AND RA5k5l
PHYOICOCHEMICAL INFLUeNCes ON P1550 ,snsgMflL.s005
7t9
ed so/lb Tmss raIses wilhin oil three groups, which
isdicaled a trend of increased frequencies of by-
pamlhemmio-aanoilise species at warmer sites. This
Imand was contrary (a expeelalions.
There were strong and cans/steel differences in
hypoxia index values helwenn regions ond be-
tween upstreow ood downsbream s/tes in all
regions. At upstream silos, hyponia volses were
lower in the Prairie region (indicat/ng morn tol-
erant species) than in Ike Ozark Border sod Ozark
neginjss by magnisudes of 0.14 and 0.22. renpoc-
tisely, Al downstream sites, tolerances in Ike Prai-
rie region averaged 0.10 ond 0.32 lower than in
Ihe Ozark Border and Ozark regions. Increased
frequencies of hypoxia.tobomanl species were
found at upstream shun 01 dawnslream s/ten: as-
erogo d/fferences in hyponia values between ap-
stream and downstream groups wore 0,07—0.22.
Site moos hypox/a /odea values were also pnsi-
lively correlated (m = 0.77.
P
16
0.01) wilh silo
drainage areas, wh/ch indicated a general /ncrease
in
she
freqoexcies of sensisiso species with larger
stream sizes across the lhroe regions. These re-
gional and longitodinal diffenescas in hyponis in-
dex values were cancordunb wish differences in
00min values.
Theme wore also distinct regional and longitu-
dinal differences in
hypes-therm/ainden values, bus
Ihose diffanencos wore discordant wish she pattern
of differences in stream Tmas values. Much higher
fnaqeenc/es of hyparthormia-tolomonl spec/es oc-
curred at Prairie than as Ozark sites, oven Ihoogh
Tmae salons differed lithe besmoen these regions.
Nyporlhenmia index saloon wore insenmed/ale 01
Ike manmesl Ozomk Border region silos. At up-
stream sites, hyperthormia values in the Prair/e
region averaged 0.33 and 0.80 higher than values
in the Ozark Border and Ozark regions, and 01
downstream sites, tolerances in she Pro/rio region
averaged 0.30 and 0.78 h/gher Ihon sutaos in Ike
Ozark Border and Ozark regions. Higher hypon-
Ihermis values were also found 05 opsbream s/len
than at dowoslmeam silos io all three regions. Iho
difference ranging from 0.07 to 0.10. S/se moon
hypenthemmia index volses wore aegulivaly cor-
related Ic = —0,63,
P 16
0.05) wilh drainage areas.
Even though temperatures tended In /ncrease with
stream size, downstream assemblages more ado-
ally morn reesisise so hyporthermis.
Allbsogh hypzrlhnrw/u /ndex voices memo in-
dependenl of monimum temperatures, they more
ssmongly correlated with s/be mean DOin salons
(r = 0.85,
P
16 0.05) and wish site moan hypoxia
mdcc values
/r
= 0.07,
P 16
0.03). Additionally,
the highest hypemlkerwio inden values occurred in
stream groapa with she lowesl DDmin values rather
shun in stream groups with highest Tmao saloon.
On the whole,
lhc
highcsl freqltencien of both
hyp-
ooia- and hyperlhormia-solenant species were
found at the most hyposic silos, and spec/os sen-
sitive In cuber factor were moss frequent al well-
osygenoled rather than 01 cool silos, Hyponia val-
ues were poorly correlated with silo Tmse values
(r = ‘0.3S,
P
0.051, which indicaled that tharo
was no eamplnmentary relationship whereby hyp-
oxia values ware infioenzod by lempenstured.
in the non-Ozark s/tan. cansiolent incmesses oc-
curred in hygsxio index values, hal not in hypor-
therm/a values, is response Is the homshem physi-
cochamical conditions brought about by drought
(Figure 21. Hypoxia indices in drought yosms us-
emagod fmom 0.02 (upstream Prairie) 100.07 (down-
stream Onark Border) lowerin 1908—1989 samples
thanin 1987 und 1990 somplos. Allhough tamponal
changos wore smaller/n mugnitade Ihan googmuph-
icol differences, thoy were eonsislaOt. Decreased
hypoxia index values occurred is sib four groups
(Figure 2) and as nIl 14 of She nen-Ozurk sites,
which differed significantly (cki-uqsume test.
P
16
0.03) from tke 50:50 rat/o expected by chance. Os
the other band, there
was
I/tIle uv000ge difference
is hypothermia saloon belm000 droughl-yesr and
000droaghl-yoar samples. Allkoagh hyperthenmia
indos values Ouzloosed somowbal from year to
your. Ihore was no olnady trend of ioen005e (Figsme
2) in any group, snd dnoughl-yoar saloon were
higher than nondrougkt-yenr values ub only 9 of
Ike 14 s/Ins /eh/-sqsaro,
P
0.101. In gonamul. the
overall uhueduece of fishrs as all sites declined
during Ihe droughts. Hypoxia-tolerant species
were less affected than sonnilive species, and by-
pomshcmmio-iolemanbspecies were ne/ther selective-
ly favored nor disfosomod.
Ordiossisso Aoulvnis
The DCA cmdinalion coordinosos for Ihe IS spe-
cies composition lists (Figure 41 showed a nbmoog
segmegal/On along Ihe x-an/s so/bk Prairie sites to
Ike lafI, Ozark Border s/los oean the middle, and
Ozark sites to Iha
right
of the diagram. A second-
ary segregation slung the y-ocis occurred only
among she fosm Oaark s/tes; y-snis scores for the
abhor two regions were virtually uniform. Assem-
blages from some silas
Sbus
ware a considerable
geogmophie dislanee aparl ordinased closoly to-
gether, and some geographically neighboring s/los
ordinsled fan oporl. which indicoled shutsimilarity
350
so 200.
0
0
0
lao
C)
0)
m
20,0
ad-a
C)
‘C
FIRST
ORDINA11ON
AXIS
o
tm
200
300
dOO
mo
o Reside opsieeuet
e Pm/Se doanseeom
o Gush border
upovaam
A
• Goasls border dossnsteenm
A Goads
cpslrmam
£
Goadsduwnnaeam
.
A
-
La
t.0
2.0
2.0
5.5
n.e
s.n
DISSOLVED OXYGEN MINIMA
(
mg
-
L’t)
Pisoas d.—Desmrndod coreenpondosce analysis scares for rpamien-fnnquency data useroged ova the duration of
iha study feom she It s/ten. The top and lefi as/n ssabeu are she vnigioal med/noliss scorer. The bottom and tighr
so/s scales urn streom dissolved asygen minima and temperature masima. calculated from she rennoasios eqoat/oss
rebating au/s scorer 10 each physiencheni/col sam/able.
25.0
in spec/os compos/tion was not a simple function
of dislanco between sites.
Fish assombluges from kyponic s/Ins ordinatod
In the far left is P/game 4, and asoomblagos from
wore oxygonuled s/lee end/noted In the might. The
a-ax/s scores wore stmougly corrolased (r = 0.85,
P160.05) milk silo DOmin valnor (Table 2). which
indicalod a strong nh/fl in spec/cs composition
along the grad/ens from lxw to high m/n/mum ox-
ygeo leNds. The x-usio scones worm therefore do-
scm/bed
hy the nogmess/on oqsasion
a-axis =
108 +
94.4)Df)un).
negated strongly along Ike y-anis in robalion 101cm-
poratuno max/mo, These silos segregated isIs a
enolsoasom silO at Ike sop of she d/agram and
Wanw~
maser sites toward the bottom. For she foen Ozark
s/ten, y-axis scones wane slrongly correlated wish
Tmss values (r = 0.99,
P
16
0.0)1: Ihus, scones
cosbd he descr/bed by She regression oqootion
yasin
1.306 — 49.4(Tmaol.
The effecs of bk/s equal/on in shown in P/gore 4
as a osbsbitalicn of a woninsuni lomporotume gra-
dient fan the omig/ool y-axis scale, hot this poetic-
slam substitution spplied only to Ozark aosnns-
htagos.
Those relationships brtwooo site ondistatios avis
scones and site
00ivin
and Twas valaes revolted in
simple twit-step model for predizb/ng hoth n-as/n
and y-an/s coord/nates from she two ensimoomonlal
vamiobbos.
Slop
)
x.anis = — 00 +
9d.dlDOmivI.
Stop 2: y-ocsn =
101
if 0Omis
4 mg/I..: or
y-asin = .306 —
49.4)Tms,l
/fDO~=05
mg/L.
The offodl of Ihis regress/on equation is shown is
Figure 4 on a simple sobas/lution of a DO/r gnu-
diens foe Ike original ordination a-axis valuer.
For the IS silos as a whole, y-anis scores were
modemuleby correlated
(r
= 0.58,
P
0.05) with
s/In
Tmas values hot not with
00mmn voIces. Bos
when we considered Ike 14 non-Ozark s/tes sop-
arotely from the Ozunk sites, theme wan almoss no
van/al/on in y-an/s scores. Thus, for these 45/los.
y-osis
scones
could ha described by thm moan vol.
ae:y-os/s = tOl.Al the non-Ozark sites, malabively
cool and warm sites ordinosed closely together;
thereforo, there was no relationsh/p hotweoo Tmos
voloen aud ordination scorer on e/ther us/i.
Considered sepamusely, the four Ozunk ailes seg-

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SHALE
Alit
ISA5ENI
PI0Y5ICOCOOEMICAL INFLUENCES ON FInN ASSEMBLAGES
The simplest intonprebotion of skis model is that
n/los segregated pm/warily in relation to the degree
of hypasio. At sovere to moderule levels of hyp-
oxia,
when
00min vahtea wece less (han 4—5 mgI
L, communities sum/ed in rclolion to oxygen min-
ima bus not to Tmes values or any oshon variable.
Variation in domponibion of the fish ossewbbogen,
an cxptossnd by she ondinss/os caocdisoses, oc-
curred independently of DOmin values only in
these few Ozark S/sos where severe to moderate
hypoxia was absent. In these few s/1c5. 055cm-
bloges appeared to vary in relation to maximum
lempomasares.
Discussion
Several lines of evidence suggest Ihat hypoxia
exerted a major effect on fish assemblages-in small
hoodwascn streams. The strong correlation between
hypox/a index valuet and stream oxygen win/nsa
cleanly indicated that Ike relative frequency of kyp-
oxia-lolomonI sped/es increased aa stream DOmie
values decreused. Freqoane/es of hyposio-bolarant
species also increased at all non-Ozark silos when
drought induced wore onIonS/se kyposia. We ulso
found clean snd concondsel geographical pubtemns
is osygen min/ma and hyposia tolerance index
voloos such that Ike moss sesone hypes/a ond the
most tolemast assemblages were found at npslmeam
and ab Pro/rio region sites, Oeogmsph/cul varial/aa
in physicazhomical conditions is considered a
probable /nfloeszo on koth the long/Isdinul as-
nut/on of stream fishes and Iheir long-bmw zoo-
geographic distributions (Scklosson 1987; Mul-
thews 1987). and mesulbs from our slsdy support
this cssons/on. Moss of the exceps/aoally hypoxia-
saberanl spec/os io this stady
are
common in Prairie
mogion stmeostss; sho most sensitive spec/es ore me-
nlmieled 10 Ozork and Ozork Bonder streams (Pflio-
ger 1975). This regional dislnibsms/oa of taborons
and sensitive spec/as also suggests thaI nelobisely
severn hyposio has hens c pensisseol und endomic
ckanaelenist/c of Pro/rio rag/on ssneuws.
The DCA and/sat/os analys/s prov/ded Addi-
tional ev/dence shot species composiliou was
strongly influenced by oxygen minima undee the
mango of conditions encompassed by this study.
Sites w/sh s/m/lar DO~~values5
soppansed assem-
blages with s/milar spec/os eomposil/055. 00 Cs-
pressed by ordinal/an coamdinasns. regardless of
their geograph/cal local/on em temperature moxi-
ma. S/len so/lb differool DOmin values suppamsad
dissimilar usrnmklugoa even when sites were iu
close geographical pros/wily or differed markedly
in lompomalamn maxima, By itself, th/s osnoziasion
between species composition and oxygen min/ma
could be span/aus. Bal the ordination model soon
ssppsmsed by concurrent shifts in hypoxia index
acoceS ihat showed Iha( the fneqseeciel of (olefaltI
and sensitive species respondedto oxygen win/wa.
Is seems veny unlikely Shot sack strong shifts in
both Ihe compositions ofassemblages and Iho to!-
occecos of their members would bx caused by any
factor other than hypox/a.
We did nol /ovesligste she spec/fic mochooixmx
hy wh/ch hypnnio /nfluenced lhcsa assemblages.
is tho Iuboeasony, hypoxia was not lethal so any
spec/es when dissolvedosyges was ohovo 1.6 mgI
L. Bet/s Iho held, DOnievalans /nfluenced sped/es
csmpnsisio/ls sp to oppeos/wulely 4—5
wglL.
which is s/muon to moeommended standardsfoe ox-
ygen win/mu in warwwolor sleesms bWelch and
Lisdeil 1992). Dissolved oxygen requirements for
long-termpersistence of Slmaum fishes are typ/colly
much higher than those determined in bokomusory
somvivul lests (Moore 1942; Warren at ul, 1973;
Davis 1975), and lhnno is a need In understood why
this d/screpancy occurs. Prev/ous stadies (Ba/lay
1955; Tmawer 19771 showed that fish Iroppad in
pools w/th severe coed/l/ons oflen die in masses
doming brief I/we periods. Noweser, during this
slsdy, manever observed extens/ve fish kills, even
at the mass kyposic sites. Nong ofoar obsamvut/ons
soggossed that direct spnc/es-nolactive mortal/by
wan the most comwon means by which hypoxia
influenced she compos/tions of tkeno assemblages.
We enpeet that oddit/osal invosligal/on mb
she
effeeln of kyponbo on aeloclive emigration, habitat
selection, and ssppmossion of. growth and repmo-
does/an mighb bring underasonding of whyspectes
ore oflon lens abandunl 01 hypoxio levels well
above the/n opparanl leIhol thresholds.
(n conlmast to oor field lost of kypsnio IcIer-
andes, Ike field lest ofthn hypershemmia index was
nagot/ve. Nypnmshorwia indas scones mere not no-
bused so s/to Tm., vslues. nor wane themo any con-
cordant regional, longitudinal. or lempomal pat-
ternsso shnsc two somiah(es, These eegalisO results
way hose occanned siwply because she in/b/al us-
suwpsion of cotnsssst colas/se species tolerances
under bobb lakomulony and field coed/I/aol was
fslse. However, oshnr rcsuUs. psesiculanly she or-
dinal/os modal, mndicused Ikas other factons were
impoesusl. Pot she 14 nas-Ocsrk sites, species
composition. us onpeansad by ordination eoomds-
sates, soss nab related to (emyctutono max/me,
Silos with disnimilur Tm.e saluos sometimes sup-
ported similar assemblages, asd d/ssimilar ossom-
blages wane found at sites with siwilor Twas sal-
non. Addilionally. hypenthemmia-sansisiso species
sack an wh/te tuckers mono common even at the
warmess sites, which implied Ihal the absonco of
shccn epeciex from mo9( c/boo eanno( ho oxplaised
on the basis of lemyoraluro max/mu. Thss,the best
oxplonntion for she oegal/vo (ens of the hypemshon-
mis index is Ihab assemblage compositions wore
nob, in most cases, affected by tempcratsrr man-
/wa.
The anty evidence son found shut fish eumpo-
s/tines responded to kyprmshermia war rngmegol/oo
of tho Oanrk fog/on S/Icr mb
enolsonsor sansus
-
wummsoatom assemblages. One snosually cool
Ozark s/so may hose ssypnrled a relatively unique
axsomhlogo
for neurons other than bemperosnro.
The hyperthenmia indes volae for th/n eonlwuter
ansomblogo was s/milar to Ihosa fmow She warmer
Ozark sites. but we believe Ibis apparent d/ncmop-
ascy
is an error zaaned by Ihe high pemeositogo of
untested spoeinn in 1k/s pars/color assemblage.
Ozark scalpins. which wore very abundant at thin
s/re. see probahly very sensitive to worm tempnr-
stunes (Pfliegen 1975). Sub, regardless of wheshor
temperature differences wore she actual caoae, she
well-osygenatad Ozork sites soame Ike only canes
whore s/lw wish sim/Ism oxygen minima sopponxod
varyiog asnemblogos.
Nypenbhommia iednv values were onilhen 00/-
form
non mondom in She/n variabion among the itudy
sites; instead. shey were strongly correlated wibh
bosh DDmin and hypox/a /ndex vulnos. This false-
p65/live result occommod because several lasted spe-
cies wore 0/Ihor dually sensitive log.. bleedieg
shinemsl
or daully tolemant (e.g.. green sonfish) of
bolb hyponia and hypershermia. Nigh fnoqseneias
ofailhar dually sons/I/so or dually bolenonI species
/0
assemblages resolled is corresponding changer
10
both she kyponiaand hypenlhermia index values.
Thss, both indices mono affected by onygen m/o-
/wo, wh/ch masolted in a spar/ass relationship be-
ssosen
00m/n and hypenthammin mdcc vuluos. This
effect
/0 0
posanbial problem
/0
upply/og theso in-
dices hocosso the effects of hyporlhonmia on as-
semblages cannot nacossan/ly he distinguished
from the effects of hypoxia so/shout addisiosal
data.
The ord/nal/on model suggested Ihot spec/cs
compos/tions could be predicted from two simple
physicochemicul sarisblns and Ihal these son/ablcs
coold he predicted for olhen sites from spec/es fre-
quency measurements. The ordination model sop-
ported the tolerance index nasally by establish/ag
shot bolb ossomblage compositions and ossemn-
klogo tolemaneen mere influenced by she same van-
oblos. The modol also ind/colod that dl sites with
severe tomoderate levels of hyposia. the offccs of
hyponia on species composit/on was dominant
oven the effeclx of hyporihcrmsu and that affects
of lemporatumo man/ma were enpnessod only when
ocygen mm/ba enceodod 4—5 mglL. Beidso this
mange, assemblages d/ffernd only whes osyges
minima differed, which indicated that other pa-
bent/al infisooces mane overwhelmed by she slnnn-
gee effects of hypos/o. Ahnse this mango. s/laS with
r/m/Ion noygen m/aimn hut dissimilar sempomasoro
msxiass suppnnsnsb varied assanshlagos. A follow-
up olody /5 needed shol compares assemblages os
a lsmges eumben of soell-nvygnoalod silos so/tb
varying tempenaturo mon/mo so confirm shot as-
semblages do cespond to hypenehnrmia in the oh.
nonco of severe to moderate hypoxia.
Hypoxia was sevens enough
lit
influcoce spec/ms
composition atoll hula few of sho 18 study sites.
wh/ch implied that Ibis died is common in small
slneaws of Missouri. Tho ontont to which stream
hypoxia is influnuced by agricullamo and is in need
of management attention in nob known. Allhough
organic malarial from both natural and agr/cultural
sources can daplole stream onygen. hyposio in
some eases may be a noburol feature of lb/s lypo
and size of stream to which fisk hove become
adopsed. The frequensly low onygen win/nsa at
many s/los wore largely on offecl of sbognant con-
ditions which prevailed during periods of I/Isle ne
no rtneamflow. Severe hyposia did not ocean iv
stnoanss wish panoisbenl flow.
Slmeom hydrolog/cal chucuesemirtics are infix-
oncad mostly by watenshod factors inch as dma/s-
age area, slope, soil permeability, and vegetative
coven. The slnoog long/tudinal and regional pal-
bcmning of osygeo minima and hypoxia index sul-
son wan probably an effect ef these factors. Man-
agement nf stream onygee bevels hecsose of their
potential ho affecb fish asseoshlages requires con-
sideration of such watershed foctons.
Ripxn/an shod/ag. the primary influence on low-
parolumo men/ma. was moch msne dopendesut vs
local factors, particularly she condition of rsponmas
segotss/oo at ench site. Tho soammess silos wore
Ihose with Ike least shade. and /ndisidxal peals
without shada soene wormer than adjacent shaded
pools. Thor. temponabure soon/ma wnmr not as
strongly gvogruph/cally patterned us onyges os/n’
into. Oxygen minima and temperature mat/wa
were controlled by diffocont factors, and this soon
reficcsod in bIte poor comneloliss botwaan Ihamn. Al-
though lnmporotura max/mo snsy be relatively
maoogeable lhnosgh efforts to impr050 locol ni-
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P1IYIICOCHUMICAL INPLUINCII ON P1111 AJIUMULAOU$
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purian vegetation, results of this shady indicated
that such m000gdmenh in likely So nessll in a mar
sponse ofthe fish assemblage only in stnaumswith-
001 severe hypoxia.
Aeknnwledgmanto
This is a contribut/on from the M/ssouri Co-
operative Fish and Wildlife Roveareb Unit (Nu-
t/anal Biological Sonvice; Missouri Departmenl of
Conseevusion; The School of Natural Resources,
University of Missouri; ond Wildlife Management
Inst/tute cooperating). Fanding and support far
this study was provided by she Missouri Dopurl-
wool of Natonal Resources, Division of Environ-
mental Quality. We Ihank B. Nelson and several
shudents and assistanbs who helped with field eel’
leclioas, and we thank), Fairchild and A. DaLonay
for nasiewing an earlier versionof this mansvznipl.
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SMALE ANts 1*11881
PlIYSIflaCuIIla4IC’AL INI’LtIIrNres 15N 815)1 AssrlMn..Arans
125
Appoasdin: Collection Data
T.soLe A.l —Spec/so cmllecuad ai rock otndy site, so/sb Ike en/feet dissolved oeygno eoncosmssl/ons sod temparamorso
for rack spm/en ISmabe and Rakmoi 199)) aod the hequonc/en of aenarnonce (percent by namhne of fiehI of apecios am
each s/In. ‘limo fnmiysonciea g/oniu ate ssrtages over Ike
3—4-year
study pen/cd. S/ta nhknreietu’ona are tinted in Tnkle
I.
Dashes are sighs ga/des only.
.
Sysoina
mman species
nnygescm/i/cel
Commom name
Sciesoifie vnmn
cos~n. memnpen-
ImeJLl
CCI
hIP I
Sysoieufuoqseooy at Pu/do a/Ins:
III
gL I
88 I
PC I
MF
2
Ginned ahad
Dososcna oeyou/iemcso
a
b
Cvmmonasop
Cypnsmamc’asyie
Deldoeshivnn
Ncmonie0000 cnyactesrw
0.70
36.8
12.2
0.3
21.6
12.7
arcs
4,8
Creek
nhah
Scnncshia
assomiavatamoc
0.14
35.7
v.7
s.n
9,4
5.3
0.5
8.0
Nvsoyhead chub
Sachenncsih so/neon
Nwcmth
kigsscnaa’t.5fi
PSomeveb/con/mb/On
5.5.6
1.04
0.3
Soashem tndbmlly
dsce
Psoeimeaos’shvsowniom
0.74
35.9
Rsayfacnshienn
Sigirvush shines
5igsyr sb/see
Nmiovc’m sokoflvm
Ncmrcy/c dsrecku
Ncssspfn kcojnu
1.49
35.3
1.02
ss.
a
6
564
Sasduhinem
Ncisspiuumeoes’mocn
0.93
37.0
.
Omoehnetn sb/ens
Ncimpfn isnsrsoiepcm
6
Ooemk soisooso
Ncssspi.nmcbdnn
1.43
36.2
RndOm shiner
Lvtomsac ymmbeooi/o
1.17
35.2
0.4
5.5
3.7
4.0
5.1
6.9
Censoon sb/eon
ceo/Inn ccnymci
0.97
35.7
0.3
0.1
Sndyrd uk/sen
Dsc/iiss rhq.norephohic
1.03
39.2
alnnd/egab/eon
I.tucilccecmavic
1.75
35.3
Rod abuser
cype/melio
iomrmsonfe
1)91
36.1
11.8
5.7
2.4
c
0.7
Olset!ioarm/mim,iw
flmnrpsaleoomimmiso
1.04
36.6
4.2
St
0.6
2.5
Pashmad minnow
Pismephaloa
ps’..srlac
0.73
36.5
41.5
26.0
20.u
5.1
h.4
Control .nmcmmrmtlnn
Gmiwnvscro
omusmioismei
0.95
37.2
5.1
0.5
1.1
2.6
0.t
4.1
Lnngrnnsiescvenoibrm
Comneconcmnaohmsmtrriu
a
0
whine euvkns
Camvcn,sonn rcsonoeacni
0.98
34.9
0.1
1.0
4.0
5.4
1.5
Nonvsonhogsochns
iflitnrsootSinmm/gnlromr
5
Getdvnnrdhaue
Mccemscnaen’nmtsuwos
Yellow hullhnad
Amcicinma mcmoi/.n
0.49
37.9
5.2
0.2
0.1
0.2
16.1
0.9
Slsoh
hsllhnad
Ano/enu notou
1.15..
.30.1
0.1
0.7
1.2
n
Stnnmlsonadmcm
Nticmuno/tlm
0.60
36.5
MosqsinoOek
Gambia/a offim/a
alrbsdpe
lore/snow
Pamdolac mmcnamsu
0.88
38.3
0.1
Eisohtyvtind nopnieeoso
Famdoluuc cl/morris
0.68
38.8
Nemhnnnsmud6a/s
Pamdoioaraiooativn
a
v
Ptsiss uopmsinsco
Poodelsu ur/odjncu
0.92
37.0
Onvsknuionmmktnu
zasidnaihecclceetis
39
36.0
Doath svolpiv
Ccmwa 0,upcetiunmia
6
8so6
hana
Asohlopiiom soyeaieic
Largenssomh haut
Micsopmrnsn cstneldoo
0,70
35.3
0.1
u
0.7
0.0
Ssocilneonhhauu
Mia’soesosocdcicasios
1.19
56.9
Given
easish
Letsonia vvssienso
0.65
37.9
34.2
12.4
22.5
22.7
24.5
fl.2
Duaogntponmvd moOch
0.oyvsoia Son/ho
o.sS
39.4
4.4
0.3
1,0
Longer aanOnk
Loposolu
monaoh,siu
0.68
37.8
Slsngdi
w’himecnoyp:o
Loran/a ners,vsisim
Pcsmeaia amocierk
0.06
37.9
•6
.7
0.1
2.0
0.9
0.1
l,cgevsoh
Peer/va m’apssdvn
a
5
Johnny daoen
eis000ieioe n/zncm
0.70
36.5
0.1
5.1
4.2
9.5
0.5
0.7
Dnnngnskcoei doont
Esheoumenaeyersabfle
0.86
36,4
2.4
37.2
0.5
0.1
Pesnait
dastnm
gmsrocnvurajhabetiose
0.90
30.0
0.1
0.1
0.2
Oninoedds’nrn
gsyemcmvsoo ucmmio
Ruinhoudnonm
Esseosmcmiasornnlescm
1.15
35.6
Gnenesidnduies
gssreancnasioonucideo
Ssippind dacet
Libroanemna esrnmotansn
All unmnamed apeciva
5.0
0.0
5.0
0.0
0.1
0.5
a
Open/na kyposiu umlenanso wasno Inosot: ttsrenfnee, Ikeenrageonion fso all rated apee/en (0.93 mgil..) ama iuned is uatnsladog iedcn tulane.
6Spsoiso hypcuthmunsia ulenoce inns mom nnnncd: flzaefcnr, she nvnugr
saw
(coal mindepsoins
l7kFC( own urea is natccbsdng dam
sdsnn.
Spnoins am psosemi alibis s/se. bat at an anungernnqsenvy of less thsn 0.03.
Taste A. I .—Fnuandnd.
.
Ccnsococesor
Opec/os
knqi:tnnysm
ttmra/dn
a/lou:
o,mPs
~k.2
Syrvmns fsoqsnnnyas
Geank sotdnn miles:
Spec/mu lunqsomn5ol
Geumb isles
‘sF1
Cull
net
nn2
sF2
vCs sort rvi sort- nbc
Giaaacdshad
-
Conmnn
easy
7.3
24.8
244
12.4
3.6
1.3
0.7
0.6
Crnehckuk
Hssoyknnduhah
Sscknwoyih so/snow
Smulhnmsodb000d
Rmnyrorcskinen
13.2
b_i
01
2.3
9.6
2.4
i.e
co
4.4
I
——
Si
0.5
1
549
01
11
..
00
II
03
ss
augsovods abject
Oinnpnshiscn
1.4
, ‘
0.1
66
0.1
Btesknomcshisom
5.0
‘5
7
Gosnhn/neow
4.7
15.1
IS’s
‘RedOs mhinen
Coesonc ehisen
So/pod shiner
Sleedingahinem
ned
ak/cnn
Slunlnvarntimncw
Pamhnsd minnow
Consul stossoullnn
t.acgnsnalrulosnnollnn
yvhiu aunken
rlonknm hegnachen
Goldno oedhensn
10.4
27.2
0.3
12.4
5.3
1.0
1.2
10.1
.1
c.s
0.2
2.9
4.2
3.5
5,3
22.1
2.7
0.1
0.5
2.9
0.1
i
0.)
6.7
0.1
04
22.5
263
4.0
9.2
1.2
4.0
lbS
5.7
—‘
3.5
5.9
01
0.1
0.2
0.4
17 I
4.5
0.0
11.1
-
2.2
02
02
25.1
0.4
10.2
53
1.7
0.3
03
——
——
0.4
1.1
6,7
40.9
0.2
76.5
55
167
14.2
It I
St
1.2
0.1
0.1
0.2
—-
156
lIt
72
03
0.1
OlsnkhsOhncut
0.2
02
‘‘
01
0.3
0.1
——
-
0.1
-
Menqa/umSnk
Slanhttdpninpso/nnsw
nlankspoondmopmi
Nnmhnuselad5tk
Plainnnopoisooso
nwokdlonusidrs
Gnaskncslyis
4.6
——
3.0
5
0.9
8.9
02
1.0
5.0
72
3.4
0.7
06
0.7 10.2
1.2
5.0
11.8
0.1
Rsokbaca
t,aagesoysnkkaas
0.1
09
07
0,2
0.5
05
0.5
03
07
Li
Smsacnosihnson
05
Drone aav5nli
——
1031
10.1
9.0
0.4
t.i
3.7
2.3
2.0
0.1
-
57
01
Grangespeont ssn5sh
Lcvgnaovsefiuh
nlungot
while macpin
Lcgpnech
IohnnydaOcn
Gnoognnhsont dacnn
Period aaont
3.6
0.3
2.4
0.5
1.0
——
5.1
1.6
0.1
5.5
0.2
1.9
1.9
20.6
0.9
0.1
..
fii.t
0.1
——
09
0.9
2.1
01
00
1.1
27 2
24.9
1.3
00
1.4
5.7
0.1
Ii
40.2
01
I
11.1
0.1
24
34 I
02
.5’’
0.)
——
——
——
-
5.2 10.7
0 I
.4
02
0.1
0.6
.
.
14.2
0.3
aamdnddaOnn
damon
2.7
0.3
2.7
9.2
Dnoecn/dedunnc
Smipyteddaonn
01
02
iii
Alt ysneated specins
0.5
1.1
0.0
0.1
7.6
6,7
1.4
0.3
4.5
18.2
77
4.4

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