National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Cumulative Habitat Condition Scores and Disturbance Indices for Hawaii Linked to Catchments of the Hawai'i Fish Habitat Partnership Stream Layer

Publication Date

2017-03-06

Start Date

2010

End Date

2015

Assessment Date

2015

Tingley III, R.W., Infante, D.M., Daniel, W.M., Herreman, K., and Cooper, A., 2017, National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Cumulative Habitat Condition Scores and Disturbance Indices for Hawaii Linked to Catchments of the Hawai'i Fish Habitat Partnership Stream Layer: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PC30HG.

Type: Related Primary Publication

These data were collected for multiple purposes. First, they were gathered in support of conducting a condition assessment of fish habitat in fluvial waterbodies throughout the United States in support of the National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP). Second, these data were intended to be made available to NFHP as well as other users interested in acquiring consistently-organized information over larger regions. This work was supported by local, state, and federal partners of NFHP, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Hawai'i Fish Habitat Partnership. Because the condition assessment was conducted over such a large geographic region, we adopted a landscape approach for assessment which assumed that anthropogenic disturbances as well as natural characteristics in catchments affect a given unit of habitat which in turn affects fishes. It was necessary to use a landscape approach because local measures of habitat and biological indicators of habitat condition are only available for a very small percentage of locations in Hawai'i while landscape data are available for every location in the state.

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