Using watershed characteristics to inform cost-effective stream temperature monitoring

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Douglas Braun, John Reynolds, David Patterson]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Aquatic Ecology, 49/3(2015-09-01), 373-388
Format:
Artikel (online)
ID: 605509220
LEADER caa a22 4500
001 605509220
003 CHVBK
005 20210128100640.0
007 cr unu---uuuuu
008 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng
024 7 0 |a 10.1007/s10452-015-9531-6  |2 doi 
035 |a (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10452-015-9531-6 
245 0 0 |a Using watershed characteristics to inform cost-effective stream temperature monitoring  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Douglas Braun, John Reynolds, David Patterson] 
520 3 |a Water temperature is a key driver of aquatic processes. Monitoring stream water temperature is key to understanding current species distributions and future climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems. However, a very small fraction of streams are continuously monitored for water temperature throughout North America, due to prohibitive logistical costs. We develop a framework that aids in developing cost-effective stream temperature monitoring by using stream habitat features to inform strategic site selection of temperature monitoring sites. We test this framework using sockeye salmon spawning streams as a model, which included 19 streams in the northern-most watershed of the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada. The objective of this framework is to evaluate the trade-off between cost (i.e., the number of streams monitored) and the effectiveness of monitoring scenarios at meeting different monitoring objectives. We compared monitoring scenarios that were informed by well-established relationships between variables and that are commonly collected or available as part of other monitoring activities (stream length, magnitude, order, gradient, wetted width, and spot temperatures) and water temperature metrics (maximum, mean, and variance during August) derived from continuously monitored streams to monitoring scenarios where streams were randomly selected. Informed scenarios included streams that were selected in order of watershed level and stream habitat characteristics (e.g., longest to shortest); ordering was based on the relationship between each habitat variable and temperature metrics. Informed monitoring scenarios were then compared to random selection of monitoring sites with regard to how well monitoring scenarios met two management objectives during the critical salmon spawning period: (1) identifying streams that exceed a temperature threshold and (2) identifying streams that represent the temperature regime of a complex of streams (e.g., mean and variance of streams within an aggregate of streams). Management objectives were met by monitoring fewer streams using the informed monitoring scenarios rather than the average of the random scenarios. This highlights how common inexpensive watershed level variables that relate to stream temperature can inform the strategic selection of sites and lead to more cost-effective stream temperature monitoring. 
540 |a Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 
690 7 |a Monitoring  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Cost effective  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Fish  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Habitat  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Temperature  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Watershed  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Spawning  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Oncorhynchus  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Braun  |D Douglas  |u Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Reynolds  |D John  |u Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Patterson  |D David  |u Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Cooperative Resource Management Institute, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada  |4 aut 
773 0 |t Aquatic Ecology  |d Springer Netherlands  |g 49/3(2015-09-01), 373-388  |x 1386-2588  |q 49:3<373  |1 2015  |2 49  |o 10452 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-015-9531-6  |q text/html  |z Onlinezugriff via DOI 
898 |a BK010053  |b XK010053  |c XK010000 
900 7 |a Metadata rights reserved  |b Springer special CC-BY-NC licence  |2 nationallicence 
908 |D 1  |a research-article  |2 jats 
949 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |F NATIONALLICENCE  |b NL-springer 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 856  |E 40  |u https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-015-9531-6  |q text/html  |z Onlinezugriff via DOI 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Braun  |D Douglas  |u Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Reynolds  |D John  |u Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Patterson  |D David  |u Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Cooperative Resource Management Institute, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 773  |E 0-  |t Aquatic Ecology  |d Springer Netherlands  |g 49/3(2015-09-01), 373-388  |x 1386-2588  |q 49:3<373  |1 2015  |2 49  |o 10452