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  "description": "This data release includes metrics from the Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA) from the Southeast Region for habitat stressors related to water-quality and habitat substrate. The goals of RSQA are to characterize multiple water-quality factors that are stressors to aquatic life ‐ contaminants, nutrients, sediment, and streamflow alteration – and to develop a better understanding of the relation of these stressors to ecological conditions in streams throughout the region. In order to characterize water-quality variables and stream-habitat measurements as an aggregation of multiple measurements over a sampling period, and in support of ecological stressor modelling, metrics (summary statistics or indices) were computed from individual results by site using consistent methods over a consistent time frame.  Water-quality metrics are based on discrete samples as well as long-term deployed passive samplers.",
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      "title": "Digital Data"
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  "keyword": [
    "Alabama",
    "Ecological",
    "Georgia",
    "Habitat",
    "Metrics",
    "North Carolina",
    "South Carolina",
    "Southeast United States",
    "Stressors",
    "Substrate",
    "USGS:5bd8bbeae4b0b3fc5cea2423",
    "Virginia",
    "Water quality",
    "biota",
    "inlandWaters"
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  "modified": "2020-08-27T00:00:00Z",
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    "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"
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  "theme": [
    "geospatial"
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  "title": "Water-quality and stream-habitat metrics calculated for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program's Regional Stream Quality Assessment conducted in the southeast United States in support of ecological and habitat stressor models, 2014"
}