Benthic invertebrate data collected at selected new culvert installation locations in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama

Dates

Publication Date: 2021-09-13
Time Period: 2011-06-24
Time Period: 2011-06-28
Time Period: 2011-06-30
Time Period: 2011-07-07
Time Period: 2011-07-13
Time Period: 2014-07-14
Time Period: 2017-06-28
Time Period: 2017-06-29
Time Period: 2017-08-09
Time Period: 2017-08-17
Time Period: 2018-05-09

Citation

Gill, A.C., and Pugh, A.L., 2021, Aerial imagery, benthic macroinvertebrate, topographic survey, and soil survey datasets collected for a study of effects of culverts on the natural conditions of streams in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama, 2010-2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P906BOVO.

Summary

Benthic macroinvertebrate samples to evaluate before- and after-culvert construction phases were collected at seven study sites. Samples were collected in two reaches at each site, one upstream and one downstream of the culvert installation. Biological data for all seven sites (14 sample reaches) are included in this data release. In the summer of 2011, samples were collected from upstream and downstream reaches at six stream sites. Samples from Oakmulgee Creek, Northington Branch, Lye Branch, Mill Creek, and Kanetuche Creek represented conditions before culvert construction. The samples from the Tributary to Cahaba River represented conditions during construction since the culvert was already constructed and active roadbuilding was [...]

Summary

Benthic macroinvertebrate samples to evaluate before- and after-culvert construction phases were collected at seven study sites. Samples were collected in two reaches at each site, one upstream and one downstream of the culvert installation. Biological data for all seven sites (14 sample reaches) are included in this data release.

In the summer of 2011, samples were collected from upstream and downstream reaches at six stream sites. Samples from Oakmulgee Creek, Northington Branch, Lye Branch, Mill Creek, and Kanetuche Creek represented conditions before culvert construction. The samples from the Tributary to Cahaba River represented conditions during construction since the culvert was already constructed and active roadbuilding was still in progress in the summer of 2011. High Log Creek was not sampled in 2011 due to drought-induced zero-flow conditions in the stream. After-construction samples were collected from upstream and downstream reaches at five sites: Tributary to Cahaba, Oakmulgee Creek, Northington Branch, Lye Branch, and High Log Creek. After-construction samples were planned for the summer at least two years after construction to allow the instream habitats and macroinvertebrate communities to stabilize. Due to site-specific construction schedules, after-construction samples were not collected in the same year at all sites.

Benthic macroinvertebrates were collected from one or more of the instream habitats that were present in both the upstream and downstream reaches at the site. Available habitat types varied from site to site and from time period to time period. Woody debris, riffles, roots and undercut banks were the most commonly sampled habitats (Pugh and Gill, 2021). Sample collection and field processing methods generally followed protocols established by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project (Moulton and others, 2002). Woody snags were collected into D-frame or rectangular nets, riffle areas were sampled using a Slack sampler, and root and undercut bank samples were collected by jabbing undercut banks with D-frame nets.

The USGS National Water Quality Laboratory Biological Unit identified and enumerated macroinvertebrates in reach samples, and the identifications and counts were used to calculate community metrics for site comparisons. Metrics were calculated from identification and enumeration data by the Invertebrate Data Analysis System (IDAS; Cuffney and Brightbill, 2010). In Pugh and Gill (2021), benthic macroinvertebrate community metrics were evaluated only for the 5 sites with both before- and after-construction samples.

Benthic macroinvertebrate data collected for this project are presented in six comma-separated values (CSV) files in this data release. Sample dates, locations, and identification and enumeration results for all the reach samples collected during this project are presented in two files. Two additional files are included which contain sample information for only the samples analyzed in the associated Scientific Investigations Report (Pugh and Gill, 2021). Formatted sample data and processing options used by the IDAS to calculate metrics evaluated in the SIR are contained in two files and could be used with an installation of the IDAS to recreate metrics presented in the report.

References

Cuffney, T.F., and Brightbill, R.A., 2010, User’s manual for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program Invertebrate Data Analysis System (IDAS) software, version 5: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 7–C4, 126 p., accessed February 26, 2019, at https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/7C4/.

Moulton, S.R., Kennen, J.G., Goldstein, R.M., and Hambrook, J.A., 2002, Revised protocols for sampling algal, invertebrate, and fish communities as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02–150, 75 p., accessed April 1, 2020, at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2002150.

Pugh, Aaron L., and Gill, Amy C., 2021, Effects of Culvert Construction on Streams and Macroinvertebrate Communities at Selected Sites in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama, 2010–19 :U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report xxxx-xxxx, xx p., at https://doi.org/????

Contacts

Originator :: Amy C Gill
Metadata Contact :: Amy C Gill
Point of Contact :: Amy C Gill
Publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :: Water Resources
Data Owner :: Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Benthic Invertebrate Data.xml Original FGDC Metadata	View	97.76 KB	application/fgdc+xml
AllCulvertInverts_1_ListofSamples_Combined.csv “List of all macroinvertebrate samples”		3.43 KB	text/csv
AllCulvertInverts_2_TableLikeBioTDB_Combined.csv “Table of all macroinvertebrate data formatted like BioTDB output”		141.54 KB	text/csv
SIR_1_CulvertInverts_ListofSamples_Combined.csv “List of macroinvertebrate samples used in SIR”		2.91 KB	text/csv
SIR_2_TableLikeBioTDB_ScienceBase.csv “Table of macroinvertebrate data used in SIR formatted as BioTDB”		114.18 KB	text/csv
SIR_3_All_Genus_ScienceBase.csv “SIR macroinvertebrate data formatted as IDAS input”		98.83 KB	text/csv
SIR_4_All_Genus_Options_ScienceBase.csv “IDAS options used to run metric calculations for SIR”		1.28 KB	text/csv

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Pugh, A.L., and Gill, A.C., 2021, Effects of culvert construction on streams and macroinvertebrate communities at selected sites in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama, 2010–19: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2021–5096, 52 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215096.	https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20215096

Purpose

This dataset was compiled as a repository of benthic macroinvertebrate community sample data collected as part of the cooperative project between the Alabama Department of Transportation and the U.S.Geological Survey to evaluate the effects of culverts on instream conditions. These data were used in analysis presented in the project summary report, Effects of culvert construction on streams and macroinvertebrate communities at selected sites in the East Gulf Coastal Plain of Alabama, 2010–19 (Pugh and Gill, 2021). Files in this dataset can be used to recreate community metric calculations presented in the report or in separate analyses of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the study area.

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