Surface Water Quality Monitoring Procedures, Volume 2: Methods for Collecting and Analyzing Biological Assemblage and Habitat Data
Procedures for TCEQ staff and other monitoring personnel who collect data on surface water quality in Texas.
Each chapter in the manual is listed separately. The following links are to PDF files. (Help with PDF.)
- Full document (9M)
- Cover and Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Biological Monitoring Requirements
- Chapter 3: Freshwater Fish
- Chapter 4: Saltwater Nekton
- Chapter 5: Freshwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates
- Chapter 6: Saltwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates
- Chapter 7: Benthic Algae and Aquatic Macrophytes
- Chapter 8: Plankton
- Chapter 9: Physical Habitat of Aquatic Systems
- Chapter 10: Biological Assessment Reporting Requirements and Data Management
- Chapter 11: Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Appendix A: Equipment and Materials
- Appendix B: Reference Materials and Criteria for Biological Assessments
- Appendix C: Forms for Biological-Monitoring Packets
- Appendix D: Biological Fact Sheets
- Appendix E: Glossary
- Appendix F: Surber Sampler Protocols
- Appendix G: Abbreviations
- Appendix H: Laboratory Bench Sheets
- Literature Cited