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Large-scale macroinvertebrate assemblage patterns from least-disturbed wadeable stream sites across the 48 contiguous US states

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Gerth, W. J., Herlihy, A. T., and Sifneos, J. C.

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We quantified the patterns in macroinvertebrate assemblages and their associated environmental gradients from 457 least-disturbed wadeable stream sites across the 48 contiguous United States sampled as part of US EPA’s National Wadeable Stream Assessment. The majority of the variation in assemblage composition at the finest taxonomic resolution was related to...

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USGS topographic maps (Herlihy et al., 2000; Stevens and Olsen, 2004) to insure that the samples were