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Habitat and fish assemblages along four river mainstems in Ontario, Canada, 1997 to 2001, with supporting spatial data

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1997
End Date
2001

Citation

Carl, L.M., Sparks-Jackson, B.L., Munn, S.T., Esselman, P.C., and Wilson, C.C., 2021, Habitat and fish assemblages along four river mainstems in Ontario, Canada, 1997 to 2001, with supporting spatial data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9L1AYLW.

Summary

This dataset includes information about valley segment and catchment summaries, valley characteristics, instream habitat, and fish for valley segments, sites, and transects along four river mainstems in Ontario, Canada. Moving west to east, the rivers include the Grand River which ends in Lake Erie at Port Maitland, the Ganaraska River which ends in Lake Ontario at Port Hope, the Trent River which ends in the Bay of Quinte at Trenton, and the Petawawa River which ends in the Ottawa River at Petawawa. These rivers vary in natural character, anthropogenic development, and fish assemblages. Riverine sites along the mainstems of all four rivers included a total of one hundred and twelve sites. Sampling on the Grand, Trent, and Petawawa [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
Leon M Carl
Process Contact :
Beth L Sparks-Jackson
Originator :
Leon M Carl, Beth L Sparks-Jackson, Steven T Munn, Peter C Esselman, Chris C Wilson
Metadata Contact :
Beth L Sparks-Jackson
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Great Lakes Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Ontario_Rivers_Main_Landing_Page_Final_20210128.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		147.73 KB application/fgdc+xml
Trent_FragmentSpeciesRichness.csv 2.61 KB text/csv
FishTaxaCodes.csv 3.92 KB text/csv
SiteInfo.csv 12.36 KB text/csv
Site_SampleInfo.csv 27.1 KB text/csv
Site_SumYrs_Habitat.csv 114.19 KB text/csv
Site_SumYrs_TaxaCt.csv 325.2 KB text/csv
Transect_SampleInfo.csv 184.46 KB text/csv
Transect_Habitat.csv 181.77 KB text/csv
Transect_TaxaCt.csv 140.05 KB text/csv
IndivFish_LW.csv 690.2 KB text/csv
GA_RvDist.csv 1.07 KB text/csv
GD_DamDist.csv 1.7 KB text/csv
GD_RvDist.csv 3.6 KB text/csv
P_RvDist.csv 964 Bytes text/csv
T_DamDist.csv 7.09 KB text/csv
T_RvDist.csv 14.47 KB text/csv
EntityRelationshipDiagram_TabularData_508.pdf 386.64 KB application/pdf
SamplingDiagram_508.pdf 495.95 KB application/pdf

Purpose

These data were collected to quantify fish community and population structure and stressors that act on fish communities. The ultimate goal was to better describe and understand riverine ecosystems in Ontario, Canada. The rivers included provide a contrast between rivers highly fragmented by dams (Trent River), somewhat fragmented by dams (Ganaraska and Grand rivers), and unfragmented by dams (Petawawa River). Samples from the Trent, Grand, and Petawawa rivers are from the downstream, non-wadeable river mainstems and used consistent sampling methods across all three rivers. Samples from the Ganaraska River are also along the river mainstem but all sites are wadeable and incorporate a larger gradient of stream sizes.

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