Sentence examples for reference stream from inspiring English sources
Prior to each pulse series, the mesocosms were stocked with macroinvertebrates from an uncontaminated reference stream using straw bags as attraction devices.
Twelve of the streams had substantial urban land-use contribution and the reference stream had 80% natural areas and no urban land use (Parnell Creek).
The reference stream initiates from the toe of a fen set in a small basin, transitioning from a peat body with a steepening channel, 2.3%, that cuts down to armored till up to large-cobble size (Table 3).
Twelve streams in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and one reference stream north of Milwaukee were sampled in February and March 2007 for determination of water chemistry and aquatic toxicity (Table 1, Figure 1).
We assessed whether additional AS case prevalences detected by the differing national control strategies in AS positive flocks were significantly different using a GLMM, accounting for heterogeneity between countries as a random effect and using intensively monitored populations as the reference stream.
Instead of subsampling purely randomly the verticals of these reference stream-gaugings, a subsampling method is developed in a way that mimicks the behavior of a hydrometric technician.
To compute the uncertainty component for any routine gauging, the four most similar gaugings among the reference stream-gaugings dataset are selected using an analog approach, where analogy includes both riverbed shape and flow distribution complexity.
These standards represented benchmarks of stable, naturally eroding reference streams.
Standards developed from urbanized reference streams could possibly better represent SCMs in urbanized watersheds.
We also made comparisons between the biocanal and six natural reference streams in the area.
The designs include: (1) sample barrier streams post-construction; (2) sample barrier and reference streams post-construction; (3) sample barrier streams pre- and post-construction; and (4) sample barrier and reference streams pre- and post-construction.
