Profile of the Habitats and Biological Communities of the Lower Kaskaskia River

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Stony Creek Creek Census

Division of Fisheries, Illinois Department of Conservationunpublishednot peer reviewedOpe

Seasonal and daily microhabitat selection by Illinois stream fishes

Illinois Department of Transportation, Division of Water Resourcesunpublishednot peer reviewedOpe

Water Quality Assessment of Little Cache Creek-Dutchman Creek Watershed, Johnson, County, Illinois with Notes on the Biota

INHS Technical Report prepared for Commonwealth Edison Companyunpublishednot peer reviewedOpe

Kankakee River fishes of the Braidwood station aquatic monitoring area, August, 1983

Commonwealth Edison Companyunpublishednot peer reviewedOpe

Physico-Chemical Limnology and Periphyton in a Warm-Water Stream Receiving Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent

Research Report No. 59, Final Report, Project No. A-040-ILL, Agreement No. 14-31-0001-3813Report issued on: September 1972Submitted to unknown recipien

Management of a Cooling Lake Fish Population

ID: 8554; issued February 1, 1984INHS Technical Report prepared for Illinois Department of Conservatio

Environmental Studies of Braidwood Cooling Pond, 1983

Report issued on: December 1983INHS Technical Report prepared for Commonwealth Edison Compan

The Fishes of Champaign County, Illinois, During a Century of Alterations of a Prairie Ecosystem

Streams and their aquatic communities are directly and indirectly influenced by the past and present activities of humans. In Champaign County, marshes and tallgrass prairie have been converted to farmland, cities, and highways. With these changes, former natural areas have become the dumping ground of domestic and agricultural wastes, with farmland being subjected to intense fertilizer and pesticide applications. Such practices can be expected to have significant influences on aquatic communities. Historical information on the fish communities inhabiting the streams of Champaign County (Forbes and Richardson 1908; Thompson and Hunt 1930; and Larimore and Smith 1963) in conjunction with data collected in the present study provide a unique opportunity to relate a century of biological observations to dramatic changes in land use. The importance of such a study is not restricted to its geographic location, nor to a unique assemblage of fishes, but rather to long-term patterns in fish community composition and structure in a midwestern, agricultural setting. Understanding the long-term implications of such changing land-use practices on stream fish assemblages is critical to sound environmental management and planning.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

An Analysis of Environmental and Biotic Factors Affecting Catch Per Unit Effort of Kankakee River Fishes

ID: 8609; issued September, 1987INHS Technical Report prepared for Commonwealth Edison Compan