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Throughout its native range in the Eastern U.S., the brook trout is a culturally and economically important species that is sensitive to warming stream temperatures and habitat degradation. The purpose of this assessment was to determine the impacts that projected future land use and climate changes might have on the condition of stream habitat to support self-sustaining brook trout populations. The study region encompassed the historic native range of brook trout, which includes the northeastern states and follows the Appalachian Mountains south to Georgia, where the distribution is limited to higher elevation streams with suitable water temperatures. Relationships between recent observations of brook trout and...
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Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2009,
CASC,
Completed,
EBTJV,
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Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture,
Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture,
Fish,
Fish,
HUC 6,
HUC 6,
National CASC,
National CASC,
Projects by Region,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
eastern brook trout,
eastern brook trout,
subwatersheds,
subwatersheds, Fewer tags
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Abstract (from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00028487.2014.963256#.VRQIaY7F8qY): The Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis is an important species of conservation concern in the eastern USA. We developed a model to predict Brook Trout population status within individual stream reaches throughout the species’ native range in the eastern USA. We utilized hierarchical logistic regression with Bayesian estimation to predict Brook Trout occurrence probability, and we allowed slopes and intercepts to vary among ecological drainage units (EDUs). Model performance was similar for 7,327 training samples and 1,832 validation samples based on the area under the receiver operating curve (∼0.78) and Cohen's kappa statistic...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Climate Change,
Eastern Brook Trout,
Fish,
National CASC,
Occurrence Probability, All tags...
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
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Climate change is expected to result in widespread changes in species distributions (e.g., shifting, shrinking, expanding species ranges; e.g., Parmesan and Yohe 2003), especially for freshwater fish species (Heino et al. 2009). Although anglers and other resource users could be greatly affected by changes in species distributions, predicted changes are rarely reported in ways that can be easily understood by the general public. In contrast, climate science that more directly affects human welfare or livelihoods is often more readily communicated to the general public because it is of greater concern or closely related to everyday life. Read More at http://news.fisheries.org/translating-climate-change-effects-into-everyday-language-an-example-of-more-driving-and-less-angling/.
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Eastern Brook Trout,
Fish,
Fisheries,
National CASC,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes, All tags...
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants,
angling, Fewer tags
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