[ECOLOG-L] Volunteer - Tropical Stream Biomonitoring in Costa Rica

Asociacion ANAI is a Costa Rican nonprofit organizationthat has pioneered some of the world’s most successful and highly participatorycommunity-based conservation and development initiatives.  ANAI’sBiomonitoring Program has worked for several decades to understand and protectthe high biodiversi

[ECOLOG-L] (repost) Do decaying plants in lakes melt surface ice?

would appreciate hearing your ideas on the impacts of decaying plants on ice melt and their possible relative contribution to thin ice. Thanks so much! ~Kirsten Harma, MSc.   Invermere, BC (my apologies for the repost -- the first posting appeared with a very strange format on Ecolog)

[ECOLOG-L] Do decaying plants in northern lakes melt surface ice?

would appreciate hearing your ideas on the impacts of decaying plants on ice melt and their possible relative contribution to thin ice. Thanks so much! ~Kirsten Harma, MSc.   Invermere, BC

[ECOLOG-L] Is there a Water Quality Index for lakes?

Does anyone know if someone has developed a single, integrated water quality index that combines the basic parameters (Temp, DO, Conductivity, pH and secchi depth).  We're curious if there is an easy way to categorize a lake as in "good" "fair" or "poor" condition based on such an index (along