Consequences of stream fragmentation and climate change for rare Great Plains fishes

Rate of global biodiversity loss increased significantly during the 20th century associated with human environmental alterations. Specifically, mismanagement of freshwater resources contributed to historical and contemporary loss of stream-dwelling fish diversity and will likely play a role in determining the persistence of species in the future. We present a mechanistic pathway by which human alteration of streams has caused the decline of a unique reproductive guild of Great Plains stream-dwelling fishes, and suggest how future climate change might exacerbate these declines. Stream fragmentation related to impoundments, diversion dams and stream dewatering are consequences of increasing demand for freshwater resources...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, AR-04, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-03, CT-04, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LA-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-00, Map, Montana, ND-00, NE-03, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, SD-00, South Dakota, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-08, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-17, TX-19, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, pelagic-spawning cyprinid, Fewer tags

Publication: Fragmentation and drying ratchet down Great Plains stream fish diversity

Stream fragmentation alters the structure of aquatic communities on a global scale, generally through loss of native species. Among riverscapes in the Great Plains of North America, stream fragmentation and hydrologic alteration (flow regulation and dewatering) are implicated in the decline of native fish diversity. This study documents the spatio–temporal distribution of fish reproductive guilds in the fragmented Arkansas and Ninnescah rivers of south-central Kansas using retrospective analyses involving 63 years of fish community data. Pelagic-spawning fishes declined throughout the study area during 1950–2013, including Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi) last reported in 1983, plains minnow (Hybognathus...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Publication: Fragmentation and dewatering transform Great Plains stream fish communities

Biodiversity in stream networks is threatened globally by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by 19,000 anthropogenic barriers, and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure and distribution of reproductive guilds. We used an information-theoretic approach to rank competing models in which fragmentation, discharge magnitude, and percentage of time streams had...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Final Report: Mapping and Predicting Groundwater-Mediated Hydrologic Connectivity for Great Plains Prairie Rivers and Streams

Across the western Great Plains of North America, groundwater pumping for irrigated agriculture has depleted regional aquifers that sustain stream flow for native fishes. Although declines in Great Plains stream discharge owing to groundwater pumping are widely documented, spatial and temporal patterns in stream intermittency across this broad landscape have yet to be quantified. Successful management of native Great Plains stream fishes into the future will require an explicit understanding of the distribution and abundance of habitats, as well as the connections among those habitats across the region. The goal of this study was to provide critical information and decision-support tools to enhance conservation...

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Conservation Priorities for Great Plains Fish Communities Based on Riverscape Connectivity and Genetic Integrity of Populations

Biodiversity in stream networks is threatened globally by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by 19,000 anthropogenic barriers, and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure and distribution of reproductive guilds. We used an information theoretic approach to rank competing models in which fragmentation, discharge magnitude, and percentage of time streams...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, FY 2012, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Publication: Comparative riverscape genetics reveals reservoirs of genetic diversity for conservation and restoration of Great Plains fishes

We used comparative landscape genetics to examine the relative roles of historical events, intrinsic traits and landscape factors in determining the distribution of genetic diversity of river fishes across the North American Great Plains. Spatial patterns of diversity were overlaid on a patch-based graphical model and then compared within and among three species that co-occurred across five Great Plains watersheds. Species differing in reproductive strategy (benthic vs. pelagic-spawning) were hypothesized to have different patterns of genetic diversity, but the overriding factor shaping contemporary patterns of diversity was the signature of past climates and geological history. Allelic diversity was significantly...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Stream Barriers for the Missouri River Basin

This data is the Missouri River Basin subset of the National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset (NABD) 2012 developed by USGS additional gauge data may exist in this dataset. Please refer to the complete dataset for use in other projects. A copy can be found at:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/56a7f9dce4b0b28f1184dabdThe follow is metadata from the source data:The main objective of this project was to develop a dataset of large, anthropogenic barriers that are spatially linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1) for the conterminous U.S. and the high resolution National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) for Alaska (1:63,000 scale) and Hawaii (1:24,000 scale) to facilitate GIS analyses based...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: ANTHROPOGENIC/HUMAN INFLUENCED ECOSYSTEMS, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, All tags... Data, Federal resource managers, Fragmentation Habitat Management, Fragmentation Habitat Management, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Final Report: Conservation Priorities for Great Plains Fish Communities Based on Riverscape Connectivity and Genetic Integrity of Populations

On a global scale biodiversity within river networks is threatened by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by >19,000 anthropogenic barriers and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure, distribution of reproductive guilds, and genetic integrity of select populations. We used an information-theoretic approach to rank competing models involving fragmentation,...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Project Summary: Implications for Connectivity and Movement of Lotic Great Plains Fishes in the Face of Climate Change.

Summary of project, results, and discussion for the study completed by Mark A Pegg, Joshuah S Perkin, Brenda M Pracheil, and Christopher J Chizinski. Summary written by the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GP LCC).

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, All tags... Federal resource managers, Fragmentation Habitat Management, Fragmentation Habitat Management, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, Report, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Project Summary: Mapping and Predicting Groundwater-Mediated Hydrologic Connectivity for Great Plains Prairie Rivers and Streams

Summary of project, results, and discussion for the study completed by Joshuah S. Perkin, Keith B. Gido, Jeffrey A. Falke, Kurt D. Fausch, Harry Crockett, Eric R. Johnson, and John Sanderson. Summary written by the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GP LCC).

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, All tags... Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, Report, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Final Report: Consequences of stream fragmentation and climate change for rare Great Plains fishes

Rate of global biodiversity loss increased significantly during the 20th century associated with human environmental alterations. Specifically, mismanagement of freshwater resources contributed to historical and contemporary loss of stream-dwelling fish diversity and will likely play a role in determining the persistence of species in the future. We present a mechanistic pathway by which human alteration of streams has caused the decline of a unique reproductive guild of Great Plains stream-dwelling fishes, and suggest how future climate change might exacerbate these declines. Stream fragmentation related to impoundments, diversion dams and stream dewatering are consequences of increasing demand for freshwater resources...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, Final Report, All tags... GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Montana, Montana, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Regional & county planners, Report, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, South Dakota, South Dakota, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, inlandWaters, pelagic-spawning cyprinid, Fewer tags

Project Summary: Conservation Priorities for Great Plains Fish Communities Based on Riverscape Connectivity and Genetic Integrity of Populations

Summary of project, results, and recommendations for the project completed by Joshuah S. Perkin, Keith B. Gido, Arthur R. Cooper, Thomas F. Turner, Megan J. Osborne, Eric R. Johnson, and Kevin B. Mayes. Summaries were written by the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GP LCC).

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Mapping and Predicting Groundwater-Mediated Hydrologic Connectivity for Great Plains Prairie Rivers and Streams

Groundwater pumping for irrigated agriculture has depleted regional aquifers that sustain habitat for native fishes in the western Great Plains of North America. Depleted surface stream flow is implicated in the decline of 69% of endemic Great Plains fishes, including conservation priority species such as the Arkansas River shiner Notropis girardi. Species declines are likely to continue as water demands increase. Knowledge of spatial patterns of hydrologic connectivity and rates and magnitude of fragmentation through time will help prioritize areas for native fish conservation. We propose to use groundwater-surface water models to document and map the spatiotemporal distribution of flowing and intermittent stream...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, SD-00, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, WY-00, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Final Report: Implications for Connectivity and Movement of Lotic Great Plains Fishes in the Face of Climate Change.

The potential implications of climate change to fishes in Great Plains rivers and streams could range from drastic shifts in distribution to extirpation. Many lotic systems in the Great Plains are not well suited for direct escape routes for fish to move to more suitable habitats at other latitudes due to the west-east direction of flows rather than north-south. Therefore, we might expect additional climate related stress on fish communities in the Great Plains compared to other regions of North America. Therefore, we will 1) simulate potential water temperature and flow changes within the Great Plains based on extant regional climate models, 2) assess stream connectivity to potential refugia, 3) develop a database...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable; Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, All tags... Federal resource managers, Fragmentation Habitat Management, Fragmentation Habitat Management, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Implications for Connectivity and Movement of Lotic Great Plains Fishes in the Face of Climate Change.

The potential implications of climate change to fishes in Great Plains rivers and streams could range from drastic shifts in distribution to extirpation. Many lotic systems in the Great Plains are not well suited for direct escape routes for fish to move to more suitable habitats at other latitudes due to the west-east direction of flows rather than north-south. Therefore, we might expect additional climate related stress on fish communities in the Great Plains compared to other regions of North America. Therefore, we will 1) simulate potential water temperature and flow changes within the Great Plains based on extant regional climate models, 2) assess stream connectivity to potential refugia, 3) develop a database...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 2013, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, Fragmentation Habitat Management, Fragmentation Habitat Management, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, SD-00, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WY-00, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Species Distribution Models for 13 Fish Species of the Missouri River Basin in Response to Climate Change

Conceptually, we overlaid down-scaled Global Climate Model data to assess climatic conditions with fish species thermal tolerance data and potential barrier to movement data to predict future fish species distributions and/or identify species that may be vulnerable to climate projections. These species distribution data, of 13 fish species at 3 different time frames, were constructed from species distribution models containing only current, projected 2050, and projected 2099 air temperature (obtained from The Nature Conservancy Climate Wizard tool) and average United States Geological Survey hydrologic unit-8 daily discharge. Average daily discharge was calculated as the average discharge of all streamgages within...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, All tags... Data, FISH, Federal resource managers, Fragmentation Habitat Management, Fragmentation Habitat Management, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, Fewer tags