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Index of Biotic Integrity
(English) The use of fish sampling data to indicate the overall health and integrity of a stream. Measures of fish species composition, trophic composition, reproductive behaviour and abundance and condition are used. Sites with high biotic integrity have relatively high numbers of total species.

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