Community-Level Response of Fishes and Aquatic Macroinvertebrates to Stream Restoration in a Third-Order Tributary of the Potomac River, USA

Figure 4

Fish community Index of Biotic Integrity scores for restoration, control, and reference reaches in the Cacapon River, WVa, USA based on an index suggested by Daniels et al. [19] Higher IBI scores indicate healthier communities. Upstream control (impaired reach, but not receiving restoration) denoted “UC”, downstream control denoted “DC”, upstream reference (unimpaired, natural reach) denoted “UR”, and downstream reference denoted “DR”. The restoration reach is denoted as “Rest”. Fishes were sampled before restoration (2009), during restoration (2010), and after restoration (2010).