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The need for integrated and widely accessible sources of species traits data to facilitate studies of ecology, conservation, and management has motivated development of traits databases for various taxa. In spite of the increasing number of traits-based analyses of freshwater fishes in the United States, no consolidated database of traits of this group exists publicly, and much useful information on these species is documented only in obscure sources. The largely inaccessible and unconsolidated traits information makes large-scale analysis involving many fishes and/or traits particularly challenging. We have compiled a database of >100 traits for 809 (731 native and 78 nonnative) fish species found in freshwaters...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Animals,
Biological,
Biological Data,
Biota,
Classification, All tags...
Conterminous United States,
Fish,
Freshwater,
NFHP Cooperator,
NoVisual,
Traits,
Vertebrates, Fewer tags
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From 31 May to 29 June, 2022, a Virginia Tech team of 4-5 sampled the fish community in 30 Delmarva Peninsula streams (Maryland and Delaware, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, macroinvertebrates, and fish health at the same 30 streams. These 30 Chesapeake Bay Watershed tributaries had upstream drainage areas of 9 to 54 sq. km. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches using two-pass backpack electrofishing and seining. Reach A was the main reach surveyed by all the interdisciplinary teams; Reach B was surveyed for fish communities only. Reach length was 20 wetted channel widths, capped at 150 meters. Fish were identified...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Caroline County,
Chester River,
Choptank River,
Delaware,
Delmarva Peninsula, All tags...
Dorchester County,
Ecology,
Kent County,
Maryland,
Nanticoke River,
New Castle County,
Pocomoke River,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Sussex County,
Talbot County,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Wicomico County,
Wicomico River,
biota,
community ecology,
farming,
field sampling,
fish,
freshwater ecosystems,
river systems, Fewer tags
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From 16 June to 30 July, 2021, a Virginia Tech team of 4-6 sampled the fish community in 30 Shenandoah Valley streams (Virginia and West Virginia, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, macroinvertebrates, and fish health at the same 30 streams. The fish community team also sampled three additional bonus streams (SiteID's FOLL, NAKE, and TUMB) during 19-22 August, 2021. These 33 streams had upstream drainage areas of 7 to 46 sq. km and included 4 James River tributaries (SiteID's POAG, MLRB, CEDR, PISG), one Potomac River tributary (HARL), and 28 Shenandoah River tributaries. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Augusta,
Berkeley,
Clarke,
Ecology,
Jefferson, All tags...
Maury,
Potomac,
Rockbridge,
Rockingham,
Shenandoah,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Virginia,
Warren,
West Virginia,
biota,
community ecology,
farming,
field sampling,
fish,
freshwater ecosystems,
river systems, Fewer tags
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