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These data was collected in conjuction with Upper Mississippi River Restoration-Long Term Resource Monitoring (UMRR-LTRM) element data. The goal of this data collection was to assess age structure of smallmouth buffalo Ictiobus bubalus in the Upper Mississippi River system. Through ongoing UMRR-LTRM efforts, we collected fish with a goal 10 smallmouth buffalo from 20mm length groups, beginning at 100mm of total length. Upon collection fish were measured, weighed and frozen, then transported to the Illinois River Biological Station in Havana Illinois. Upon completion of fish collection, fish were thawed and both lapillus otoliths were removed and a sex determination was made via visual inspection of the gonads. Lapillus...
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The Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) annual fish monitoring began on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in 1989. During the first two years samples were collected at a series of fixed sampling sites, then in 1993 a stratified random sampling approach was added to the collection effort. This approach utilizes a computer routine that randomly selects sampling sites from a pool of potential sites that have been categorized by strata (e.g., aquatic habitat type, distance to shore, connectivity to main channel). The results from these collections are stored in an Oracle database at the Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center (UMESC). UMESC provides free access to the data through the Centers Web site (www.umesc.usgs.gov)....
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This dataset includes two series of data. The first series contains growth model coefficients for >90 fish species in the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS). These models were fit form empirical length and weight data observed from 1993-2007 during routine annual scientific monitoring of the UMRS fish community under a federal/state partnership program known as the Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) program (see: https://umesc.usgs.gov/ltrm-home.html, accessed 3/18/2020). To achieve growth model coefficients for each fish species, length and weight data were log10 transformed and fit using statistical regression techniques (Proc GLM in SAS v 9.4). Model coefficients representing the regression y-intercept,...
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The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), a component of the Environmental Management Program for the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), is funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and administered by the U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (Center) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The LTRMP supports six field stations operated by state agencies in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin ( Figure 1) to collect most of the monitoring data. Data on important ecosystem components, including water quality, vegetation, macroinvertebrates, and fish, are obtained using standardized operating procedures. Monitoring activities focus primarily on six study areas: Navigation...
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This report describes an electronic database containing 474 annotated citations that are relevant to fish passage through dams in large temperate floodplain rivers. Our goal was to survey the literature to help define the potential ecological consequences of restricted fish passage through dams in the Upper Mississippi River System and to identify alternative engineering solutions for increasing fish passage in large temperate floodplain rivers. Consequently, topic coverage is broad, including theoretical concepts in large river ecology, engineering design of fish passage structures, ecological responses to river impoundment, fish swimming performance, and relations between freshwater mussels and fish.
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We investigated differences in adult and young-of-the-year (YOY) fishes within each of the six Long Term Resource Monitoring Program study areas, using monitoring data from 1993 to 2001. Our objective was to investigate the relative roles of seasonal, annual, in situ, and physical habitat factors in explaining assemblage structure patterns within the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program study areas. Adult and YOY assemblage structure within each reach was dominated by one to three numerically abundant species. The percent of the total abundance for which these species accounted was 10–88% and varied among age classes and study areas. Physical habitat classes were only weakly associated with differences in fish...
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Environmental monitoring programs are frequently designed to track changes in key physical, chemical, and biological features of an ecosystem. As such, these programs provide critical information for detecting changes in system state, investigating ecological relations, and making resource management decisions. However, monitoring programs require significant investments of time, money, and human resources to implement and maintain. Periodic evaluations are necessary to assess whether the sampling design adequately addresses program goals and objectives, and whether adequate and useful information can continue to be provided for changing management and science needs. We evaluated the Long Term Resource Monitoring...
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The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), a component of the Environmental Management Program for the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The LTRMP supports six field stations operated by state agencies in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin (Figure 1) to collect most of the monitoring data. Information on important ecosystem components, including water quality, fish, vegetation, and macroinvertebrates are obtained annually using standardized procedures. Other data such as land cover/land use and bathymetry are gathered and analyzed periodically. Monitoring activities...
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This report summarizes monitoring activities of the Long Term Resources Monitoring Program (LTRMP) during 2002 and highlights selected results and accomplishments pertaining to hydrology, sedimentation, bathymetry, land cover/land use, water quality, fish, vegetation, and macroinvertebrates.�
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The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), a component of the Environmental Management Program for the Upper Mississippi River System, is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The LTRMP supports six field stations operated by state agencies in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin ( Figure 1) to collect most of the monitoring data. Data on important ecosystem components, including water quality, vegetation, macroinvertebrates, and fish, are obtained using standardized operating procedures. Monitoring activities focus primarily on six study areas: Navigation Pools 4, 8, 13, and 26 and Open River on the Mississippi...
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Lock and dam closures along the Illinois Waterway occurred in summer of 2020, resulting in a prolonged reduction in traffic of large vessels along the Waterway. To study the response of Illinois Waterway water quality and fish community, ongoing water quality and fish Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRMP) elements of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program were expanded from the La Grange reach of the Lower Illinois to eight pools and reaches of the entire Illinois Waterway. This multi-agency effort occurred in each year before (2019), during (2020), and after (2021) the extended lock and dam closure. This dataset contains observations from this project, including a file of site information and LTRMP-style...
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Variation in community composition (presence/absence data) and structure (relative abundance) of Upper Mississippi River fishes was assessed using data from the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program collected from 1994 to 2002. Community composition of fishes varied more in space than through time. We found substantial variation in community composition across two spatial scales: large-scale differences between upper and lower river reaches and small-scale differences among individual regional trend areas (RTA). Community structure (relative abundance data) of fishes also varied more through space than through time. We found substantial variation in fish community structure at three spatial scales: (1) large-scale...


    map background search result map search result map Fish passage through dams in large temperate floodplain rivers: an annotated bibliography Evaluation and proposed refinement of the sampling design for the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program's fish component Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2002: Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Multiyear synthesis of the fish component from 1993 to 2002 for the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Spatial structure and temporal variation of fish communities in the Upper Mississippi River System Spatial, temporal, and environmental trends of fish assemblages within six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2004: Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Trends in flood stages: Contrasting results from the Mississippi and Rhine River systems Temporal and spatial trends in the frequency of occurrence, length–frequency distributions, length–weight relationships, and relative abundance of Upper Mississippi River fish Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2001 Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2000 Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Development of a life history database for Upper Mississippi River fishes Cumulative impacts of river engineering, Mississippi and Lower Missouri rivers Spatially explicit modeling of productivity in Pool 5 of the Mississippi River LTRM Fisheries Data - Stratified Random and Fixed Site Sampling Hydrology Rating Curves on the Lower Mississippi River Data Smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) growth across a 1200km human use and ecological disturbance gradient in the Upper Mississippi River System data Fish growth model coefficients and functional guild categories for Upper Mississippi River System fishes data Sampling site, water quality, and fish community data from multi-agency monitoring of the Illinois Waterway response to lock and dam closures, 2019-2021 Spatially explicit modeling of productivity in Pool 5 of the Mississippi River Sampling site, water quality, and fish community data from multi-agency monitoring of the Illinois Waterway response to lock and dam closures, 2019-2021 Hydrology Rating Curves on the Lower Mississippi River Data LTRM Fisheries Data - Stratified Random and Fixed Site Sampling Fish growth model coefficients and functional guild categories for Upper Mississippi River System fishes data Smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) growth across a 1200km human use and ecological disturbance gradient in the Upper Mississippi River System data Fish passage through dams in large temperate floodplain rivers: an annotated bibliography Evaluation and proposed refinement of the sampling design for the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program's fish component Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2002: Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Multiyear synthesis of the fish component from 1993 to 2002 for the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Spatial structure and temporal variation of fish communities in the Upper Mississippi River System Spatial, temporal, and environmental trends of fish assemblages within six reaches of the Upper Mississippi River System Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2004: Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Trends in flood stages: Contrasting results from the Mississippi and Rhine River systems Temporal and spatial trends in the frequency of occurrence, length–frequency distributions, length–weight relationships, and relative abundance of Upper Mississippi River fish Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2001 Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2000 Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System Development of a life history database for Upper Mississippi River fishes Cumulative impacts of river engineering, Mississippi and Lower Missouri rivers