chapter 1 Biological Response Signatures: Toward the Detection of Cause-and-Effect and Diagnosis in Environmental Disturbance -- chapter 2 Biotic Community Response to Stress -- chapter 3 Using Biological Response Signatures within a Framework of Multiple Indicators to Assess and Diagnose Causes and Sources of Impairments to Aquatic Assemblages in Selected Ohio Rivers and Streams -- chapter 4 Using Biological Criteria for Establishing Restoration and Ecological Recovery Endpoints -- chapter 5 Effects of Contaminated Dredge Spoils on Wetland Plant Communities: A Literature Review -- chapter 6 Effects of Sediment Quantity on the Health of Aquatic Ecosystems: A Case Study on Depth of Fines in Coastal Plain Streams in Alabama -- chapter 7 The Difficulty in Determining the Effects of Pesticides on Aquatic Communities -- chapter 8 Ecological Effects of Metals on Benthic Invertebrates -- chapter 9 A Method for Assessing Outfall Effects on Great River Fish Populations: The Traveling Zone Approach -- chapter 10 Pioneer Species Metric Changes as a Result of Increased Anthropogenic Disturbance: Statewide Patterns and a Case Study of Four Ohio Streams -- chapter 11 Correlation between Nutrient Stimulation and Presence of Omnivorous Fish along the Lake Erie Nearshore -- chapter 12 Regional Ecological Normalization Using Linear Models: A Meta-Method for Scaling Stream Assessment Indicators -- chapter 13 Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages as Indicators of Stream Degradation in Urbanizing Watersheds -- chapter 14 Conservatism of Confined Disposal Facilities Based on the Biological Stability and Integrity of Plant Communities: A Case Study in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin -- chapter 15 Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Associated with Patterns in Land Use and Water Quality -- chapter 16 Effects of Metals on Freshwater Macroinvertebrates: A Review and Case Study of the Correspondence of Multimetric Index, Toxicity Testing, and Copper Concentrations in Sediment and Water -- chapter 17 Relationships between Fish Assemblages and Organochloride Insecticides in Sediment and Fish Tissue in South Central Kansas -- chapter 18 Effects of Silviculture on Indices of Biotic Integrity for Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Assemblages in Northeastern Minnesota’s Northern Lakes and Forest Ecoregion (USA) -- chapter 19 Biological Assessment on Mining Disturbance of Stream Invertebrates in Mineralized Areas of Colorado -- chapter 20 Patterns in Water Quality and Fish Assemblages in Three Central Indiana Streams with Emphasis on Animal Feed Lot Operations -- chapter 21 Response Signatures of Four Biological Indicators to an Iron and Steel Industrial Landfill -- chapter 22 Response of Diatom Assemblages to Human Disturbance: Development and Testing of a Multimetric Index for the Mid-Atlantic Region (USA) -- chapter 23 Response Patterns of Great River Fish Assemblage Metrics to Outfall Effects from Point Source Discharges -- chapter 24 Evaluating the Effects of Thermal Discharges on Aquatic Life: Patterns in Multimetric Indices from Three Case Studies in Large and Great Rivers of the Midwestern United States -- chapter 25 Assessing the Ecological Integrity of the East Branch of the Grand Calumet River: Responses of Four Biological Indicators -- chapter 26 Variable Assemblage Responses to Multiple Disturbance Gradients: Case Studies in Oregon and Appalachia, USA.