Iowa DNR
BioNet
River & Stream Biological Monitoring
Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Surveys
Physical Habitat Assessments

Unnamed Tributary To West Fork Little Sioux River Marcus (REMAP #77)

Analysis Summary for Series #2542

Benthic Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity (BMIBI)

Metric Name Value Score
MH Total Taxa 19 7.29
MH EPT Taxa 1 0.8
MH Sensitive Taxa 0 0
*Mouse-over metric for full name
**Final IBI is sum of scores multiplied by 0.8333

Analysis Factors

Factor Value
BMIBI Type Warm Water
Sample Date 7/6/2021
Sampling Series Series #2542
Drainage Area (mi2) 4.448
Log(DA) 0.648164778574001
Calculation Last Updated 7/22/2025 3:28:08 PM
Sampling Gear No valid quant
BMIBI Score

Invalid IBI

No valid quant
Invalid Sample

A BMIBI Warm Water analysis is considered invalid if any of the following are true:

  • There are no quantitative sessions with 85 or more individual benthic macroinvertebrate collected
  • There is no qualitative sample
  • The qualitative sample does not contain at least one individual benthic macroinvertebrate

The WW single-habitat metric values are neither calculated nor displayed for invalid samples.