Metrics
These macroinvertebrates are the most sensitive organisms and act like "the canary in the coal mine." (give both Order and Common Name)
What are the Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Tricoptera, and mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies?
The reason we flip a coin and use computer-generated numbers.
What is to eliminate bias?
Catfish "whiskers."
This is the point to which all waterdrop runoff is running.
What is the outlet?
Filterers, gatherers, scrapers, shredders, predators, piercers, parasites, etc.
What are functional feeding groups?
This is the un-subdivided taxonomy of any organism.
100-150
What is the range of the number of macroinvertebrates to be picked in one sub-sampling?
A caudal fin is located in this area on a fish.
What is the tail fin?
An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common point.
What is a watershed?
Living or dead, animal or plant material, that may negatively influence the environment.
What is organic pollution?
This is the unit of density.
What is density per one minute of effort?
To compare Mustang Creek with other creeks in Oklahoma and to compare Mustang Creek with itself in the summer and winter.
Why do we perform a Macroinvertebrate Collection and a Macroinvertebrate Sub-Sampling in the summer and winter on Mustang Creek?
This is how fast a fish with a plate-like body swims in comparison to a fish with a torpedo-like body.
What is more slowly?
This is what the elevation lines on a topographic maps are called.
What are contour lines?
What is a reference creek?
This is what the Shannon-Weaver Diversity Index is based on.
What are numbers?
The entomologist in Texas reports the number and taxonomy of macroinvertebrates to this level.
What is the Genus level?
A fish with a small mouth is likely to be an herbivore for this reason.
What is "form follows function?"
Parking lots, streets, housing, sidewalks, driveways, playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, pools etc.
What are impermeable surfaces in a watershed?
To compare apples and oranges.
What is the function of a biotic index?
This metric is based on an arbitrary number assigned to the macroinvertebrates in accordance with a peer-reviewed journal article from the 1980's.
What is the Hilsenhoff Biotic Index?
These appear as benthic worms usually no bigger than eyelashes and are known by their Family name.
What are chironomids?
Some true minnows and some shiners.
What fish should be counted for the last Fish Metric "Proportion of insectivorous cyprinids?"
Increasing elevations and decreasing elevations on a topographic map, respectively.
What are ridges and valleys?
Citing chemical monitoring results, data from macroinvertebrate or fish collections, specific events or areas in a watershed instead of classifying a creek as "healthy" or not.
What is supporting with evidence?