Developing Habitat Suitability Criteria for Individual Species and Habitat Guilds in the Shenandoah River Basin

Developing Habitat Suitability Criteria for Individual Species and Habitat Guilds in the Shenandoah River Basin

The diversity of fish species found in warmwater stream systems provides a perplexing challenge when selecting species for Instream Flow Incremental Methodology (IFIM) studies. An often-suggested approach has been to use habitat guilds to incorporate the diversity found in these systems. My goal i...

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Main Author: Persinger, Jason William
Other Authors: Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
transferability
representative species
habitat guilds
habitat use
PHABSIM
instream flow
habitat suitability criteria
habitat sampling
warmwater streams
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31646
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04072003-160721/

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31646
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04072003-160721/

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