Data and Tools
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SSD Plots
Species sensitivity distributions, cadmium, LC50, ECOTOX, arthropod
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R Script: Non-Parametric Regression
How to Fit Non-Parametric Curves to Observations
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Estimating Taxon-Environment Relationships: Assessing Model Fit
This page describes several approaches for assessing model fit for species-environment models.
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R Script: Compute Area Under ROC Curve
How to compute the area under the ROC curve in data analysis.
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Basic Analyses
Overview of linear regression analysis and questions to consider when using this type of data analysis.
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CADStat Installation Instructions
CADStat is a statistical program designed to assist risk assessors with data analysis.
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Ammonia
This page covers the ammonia module, including when to list ammonia as a candidate cause, ways to measure ammonia, simple and detailed conceptual diagrams for ammonia, and literature reviews and references for the ammonia module.
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Herbicides
This page includes an introduction to the herbicides module, when to list herbicides as a candidate cause, ways to measure herbicides, simple and detailed conceptual diagrams for herbicides, herbicides module references and literature reviews.
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Sediments
This page introduces the sediments module, when to list sediments as a candidate cause, ways to measure sediments, simple and detailed conceptual diagrams for sediments, sediments module references and literature reviews.
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Nutrients
This page introduces to the nutrients module, when to list nutrients as a candidate cause, ways to measure nutrients, simple and detailed conceptual diagrams for nutrients, and module references and literature reviews.
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Urbanization - Stormwater Runoff
This page introduces you to impervious surfaces associated with urbanization,and includes background information on how impervious surfaces affect biotic condition and threshold values of impervious surfaces.
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Temperature
This page introduces the temperature module, when to list temperature as a candidate cause, ways to measure temperature, simple and detailed conceptual diagrams for temperature, temperature module references and literature reviews.
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About Conceptual Diagrams
This page gives background information on what conceptual diagrams are and how they are used in CADDIS.
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Urbanization - Hydrology
This page includes hydrologic changes, baseflow changes, water withdrawals and interbasin transfers associated with urbanization, and biotic responses to hydrologic (or flow) changes associated with urbanization
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Urbanization - Energy Sources
This page explains changes in basal energy sources with urbanization, with an overview of terrestrial leaf litter dynamics in urban streams and how urbanization can affect primary production, respiration, and dissolved organic carbon quality.
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Urbanization - Temperature
This page covers how water temperature changes associated with urbanization, including heated surface runoff can affect stream biota and climate change.
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pH
This page introduces to the pH module, when to list pH as a candidate cause, ways to measure pH, simple and detailed conceptual model diagrams for pH, pH module references and literature reviews.
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Metals - Point Source Releases
This page contains a table of point sources for metals releases to air, water and land pulled from the Toxic's Release Inventory (2002).
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Insecticides
This page includes an introduction to the insecticides module,lists of insecticides as candidate causes, ways to measure insecticides, simple and detailed conceptual diagrams for insecticides, and insecticide references and literature reviews.
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Analytical Examples
This page includes examples illustrating the use of statistical analysis to support different types of evidence, stream temp, temperature inferred from macroinverterbate, macroinvertebrate responses, zinc concentrations, observed trait characteristics.