Podcast: A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act

Although the aims of environmental legislation are well known, measuring the effects of regulation is often a difficult task. Inadequate data for baseline conditions and the recovery period can hamper efforts to quantify the effects of a regulation. In a rare exceptional case, Dr. Daniel Gibson-Reinemer and his colleagues describe in BioScience the successful recovery of the Illinois Waterway following the implementation of the 1972 Clean Water Act. Using a robust, multi-decadal data set, the authors demonstrate a tight linkage between water quality and the rebound of numerous fish populations. Dr. Gibson-Reinemer joins us in this episode of BioScience Talks to discuss the article's findings and to explain their possible application in future recovery efforts. Read the article Read the full text of the article "Ecological Recovery of a River Fish Assemblage following the Implementation of the Clean Water Act " in BioScience. Article Citation: BioScience (2017) 67 (11): 957-970. Listen to the interview     Related StoriesRegime Shifts in Social-Ecological SystemsLarge Wildfires in Forests: What Can be Done? 
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