{"id":353,"date":"2014-11-03T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbisec.com\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2014-11-03T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:40:13","slug":"urban-ichthyology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/urban-ichthyology\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Ichthyology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>URBAN ICHTHYOLOGY: CHANGES IN THE FISH<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>COMMUNITY ALONG AN URBAN-RURAL CREEK IN INDIANA<\/strong><br \/>\nChristopher M. Ritzi, Brianne L. Everson, B. Jagger Foster, Jeremy J. Sheets and<br \/>\nDale W. Sparks: Department of Life Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre<br \/>\nHaute, Indiana 47809 USA<\/p>\n<p>ABSTRACT. We collected 39 species of fish from 10 sites along the East Fork of White Lick Creek\u00a0in Marion and Hendricks counties, Indiana from May through August 2002 in order to quantify stream\u00a0quality prior to the start of construction on Interstate Highway 70. These included 10 families, with 1\u00a0species each of Lepisosteidae, Clupeidae, Poeciliidae, Atherinidae, Cottidae; 2 species of Ictaluridae; 4\u00a0species of Percidae; 6 species of Catostomidae; 9 species of Centrarchidae; and 13 species of Cyprinidae.\u00a0The most abundant species we encountered were: spotfin shiner (Cyprinella spiloptera), silverjaw minnow\u00a0(Notropis buccatus), sand shiner (N. stramineus), bluntnose minnow (Pimephales notatus), striped shiner<br \/>\n(Luxilus chrysocephalus), central stoneroller {Campostoma anomalum), largemouth bass {Micropterus salmoides),\u00a0creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus), johnny darter (Etheostoma nigrum), fathead minnow (Pimephales\u00a0promelas), rainbow darter {Etheostoma caeruleum), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and the\u00a0orangethroat darter (Etheostoma spectabile). We documented eight new county records for Hendricks\u00a0County and one new county record for Marion County. Species richness, abundance of fish, and a modified\u00a0Index of Biological Integrity for the seining sites were all positively correlated with distance downstream\u00a0from Indianapolis. A trend toward greater fish abundance was also recorded with increasing distance from\u00a0Interstate Highway 70. Results suggest that urbanization of Hendricks and Marion counties has had a\u00a0negative impact on the quality of the East Fork of White Lick Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: Fish, fish distribution, Indianapolis International Airport, Index of Biological Integrity, urbanization,\u00a0urban ecology<\/p>\n<p>Link to .pdf download from: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.iupui.edu\/index.php\/ias\/article\/view\/8511\/8522\">Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/jeremy-sheets-publications\/\">Click Here<\/a> for a list of other informative articles by Jeremy Sheets<\/h3>\n<div class=\"g-plus\" data-action=\"share\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nlang: en_US\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/urban-ichthyology\/\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Articles\" href=\"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/?p=86\"><strong>&lt;<\/strong>Back to articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URBAN ICHTHYOLOGY: CHANGES IN THE FISH COMMUNITY ALONG AN URBAN-RURAL CREEK IN INDIANA Christopher M. Ritzi, Brianne L. Everson, B. Jagger Foster, Jeremy J. Sheets and Dale W. Sparks: Department of Life Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 USA ABSTRACT. We collected 39 species of fish from 10 sites along the East Fork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}