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The objective of this study was to determine why certain stream insects tend to be found in certain temperature ranges. Many federal, state and local agencies use stream insects to monitor the health of freshwater ecosystems. While the temperature ranges for some insects are often inferred from the temperature of the waters where they were collected, this inference is coarse at best and problematic at worst. Stream temperatures fluctuate a lot during the year and temperature may or may not control where an insect lives. Field insects were collected and sent to a laboratory for testing several temperature endpoints, particularly at higher temperatures. Respiration, breathing rate, and some physical activities were...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Climate change,
Northwest CASC,
Other Wildlife,
Oxygen,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
These files contain all of the source USGS/EPA taxa, temperature, and percent abundance of urban and agricultural land cover within the watershed upstream of the sampling site data used to calculate taxa specific macroinvertebrate optimal temperatures and tolerances. They also contain a taxa specific list of temperature optima and tolerances generated from the data contained in source USGS/EPA data.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Northwest CASC,
Other Wildlife,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Vulnerability,
Vulnerability Assessment,
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