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 Table of Contents: Diatom Prediction & Classification System for Urban Streams

Contents

 Abstract

 Foreword, Publication Information & Acknowledgements

 1. Introduction

• Water Quality in Aquatic Systems
• Sources of Water Pollution
• Urban Water Quality in Australia
• Stormwater, Groundwater and Urban Drains
• Impact of Urbanisation in the Perth Region
• Management Strategies
• Integrated Catchment Policy
• Monitoring the Health of Aquatic Ecosystems
• Periphytic Communities as Biomonitors
• Diatoms as Freshwater Bioindicators
• Artificial Substrates
• Predictive Models

 Chapter 2: Study Sites

• Hydrology of the Swan River
• Productive Meeting Place
• Eutrophication
• Algal Blooms
• Nutrient Sources
• Ground Water
• Dams
• Diffuse Pollution
• Urban Drains
• Selection of Sampling Sites

 Chapter 3: Materials and Methods

• Field Methods
• Catchment Conditions
• Physical and Chemical Data
• Periphyton Sampling
• Cell Counts of Periphyton from JJ Periphytometers
• Permanent Slide Preparation of Diatoms
• Taxonomic Identification
• Enumeration of Diatoms
• Photomicrographs and Iconographs
• Data Analyses
• Database
• Fresh Cell Count
• Classification
• Environmental Variables
• Diatom Taxa
• Ordination: Environmental Variables
• Biplot for SSH Ordination: Indicator Species
• Ordination by Multi-dimensional Scaling
• Bioassessment of Urban Streams
• Discriminant Function Analysis
• Two Way Table of Data Matrix
• A Diatom Index for Predicting the Health of the Site

 4. Results

• Fresh Periphyton Cell Count and Environmental Variables
• Site Classification Based on Environmental Variables
• Ordination of Environmental Variables
• Classification of the Sites According to Diatom Taxa
• Discriminant Function Analysis
• Two-Way Tables
• Ordination of the Sites with Diatoms and Environmental
• Variable (Multidimensional Scaling)
• A Diatom Index with Predictive Power
• Final Classification of Sites
• Site Locations with Status of the Sites
• Winter Results
• Diatom Taxa

 5. Discussion

• Sampling Sites
• Substrate Samplers
• Within Stream Variability
• Water Quality of Urban Streams
• Site Classification Based on Environmental Variables
• Site Classification Based Upon Diatom Species
• Assessment of Stream Health
• Status of Sites
• Predictive Models
• Two-Way Tables
• Predictive Power of a Diatom Index
• Concluding Remarks

 References

 List of Tables & Figures

Appendices

 Appendix 1 Assortment of Sampling Sites

 Appendix 2 Physico-Chemical Data Sheet spring/summer 1997

 Appendix 3 Diatom Index Spread Sheet & Worked Out Examples

 Appendix 4 Autumn/winter 1997 Dendrogram Based Upon Diatoms

 Appendix 5 Correlation Coefficients of Diatom Species

 Appendix 6 Two-Way Tables of Diatom Distribution and Sites

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