Effects of climate change and wildfire on stream temperatures and salmonid thermal habitat in a mountain river network

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1350-1371

  Isaak, Daniel J ^a   Luce, Charles H ^a   Rieman, Bruce E ^a   Nagel, David E ^a   Peterson, Erin E ^b   Horan, Dona L ^a   Parkes, Sharon ^a   Chandler, Gwynne L ^a  

^a USDA Forest Service Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boise river basin; Bull trout; Climate change; Global warming; Idaho; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Patch; Rainbow trout; Salvelinus confluentus; Spatial statistical model; Stream temperature; Thermal habitat; USA; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECTOTHERMY; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; JUVENILE; MICROCLIMATE; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATION BALANCE; SALMONID; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAMFLOW; TOPOLOGY; VULNERABILITY; WILDFIRE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; SALMON;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FRESH WATER; SALMON;

BOISE RIVER; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS;

EID: 77954337776     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0822.1     Document Type: Article

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