Climate Driven Ecological Classification for NHDPlusV1 Streams in the Temperate Plains Ecoregion (provisional release)
Dates
Release Date
2020-09-23
Start Date
2020
End Date
2020
Citation
Tsang, Y., Wieferich, D.J., Infante, D., Wang, L., and Krueger, D., 2020, Climate Driven Ecological Classification for NHDPlusV1 Streams in the Temperate Plains Ecoregion (Provisional Release): U.S. Geological Survey data, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9P8IAAT.
Summary
*****These data are preliminary or provisional and are subject to revision. They are being provided to meet the need for timely best science. The data have not received final approval by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and are provided on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from the authorized or unauthorized use of the data.***** Results described in the paper, "Conserving Stream Fishes with Changing Climate: Assessing Fish Responses to Changes in Habitat Over a Large Region": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142503. These data describe the climate driven ecological classification for all National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1) stream [...]
Summary
*****These data are preliminary or provisional and are subject to revision. They are being provided to meet the need for timely best science. The data have not received final approval by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and are provided on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from the authorized or unauthorized use of the data.*****
Results described in the paper, "Conserving Stream Fishes with Changing Climate: Assessing Fish Responses to Changes in Habitat Over a Large Region": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142503. These data describe the climate driven ecological classification for all National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1) stream reaches in the Temperate Plains ecoregion. Multivariate Regression Tree methods were used to classify stream reaches into 10 stream classes (A-J) using five climatic measures (i.e., standard deviation of daily precipitation in winter, average minimum temperature in summer, annual median daily precipitation, total precipitation in winter, maximum daily precipitation in winter) and one natural variable (i.e., Watershed Area).
Changes in climate are known to alter air temperature and precipitation and their associated thermal and hydrological regimes of freshwater systems, and such alterations in habitat are anticipated to modify fish composition in fluvial systems. Despite these expected changes, assessing climate change effects on habitat and fish over large regions has proven challenging. These results are based on a six-step approach to connect climate, habitat, and fish responses, demonstrated through an example to assess the effects of climate-related thermal and hydrological regime changes on fishes for all streams in a large U.S. ecoregion. The data can be aggregated at local scales to support managers and policy makers in resource prioritization and decision-making at regional scales.
Rights
Disclaimer For Provisional Data: These data are preliminary or provisional and are subject to revision. They are being provided to meet the need for timely best science. The data have not received final approval by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and are provided on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from the authorized or unauthorized use of the data.
These data are in the public domain.
