--Bruce Stallsmith
biostatistics are king in the Tennessee Valley
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: matt ashton <ashtonmj2003 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Diversity Indicies
>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Todd,
>
>I have a copy of the Ohio IBI manual so with the right info, like
>ecoregion, drainage size I could give you a rough score from it. The few
>problems I see using that is 1) im assuming you seined and not
>electroshocked 2) not sampling the entire community, every available
>habitat thing, so its somewhat bias and 3) unless I have missed some of the
>updates alot of the subclassifications of species were incomplete. Usually
>it was for things that were rare or not much known about, which
>coincidentally is usually things that are dependent upon good water quality
>so it would effect your scoring. Some of the major western ohio ecoregions
>go into that area of IN so I think it might cover it, if it didn't it might
>still be applicable or easily adaptable.
>
>Matt Ashton
>Tenneessee Tech University
>Cookeville TN
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