A review of bull trout habitat associations and exploratory analyses of patterns across the interior Columbia River basin

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 464-480

  Al Chokhachy, Robert ^a   Roper, Brett B ^a   Bowerman, Tracy ^b   Budy, Phaedra ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT USE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MICROHABITAT; OVERWINTERING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; SALMONID; SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

COLUMBIA BASIN;

SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS CONFLUENTUS;

EID: 79952769341     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M09-034.1     Document Type: Review

References (79)

1. Al-Chokhachy, R., and P. Budy. 2007. Summer microhabitat use of fluvial bull trout in eastern Oregon streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:1068-1081.
2. Al-Chokhachy, R., and P. Budy. 2008. Demographic characteristics, population structure, and vital rates of a fluvial population of bull trout in Oregon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:1709-1722.
3. Al-Chokhachy, R., P. Budy, and M. Conner. 2009. Detecting declines in the abundance of a bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) population: understanding the accuracy, precision, and costs of our efforts. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:649-658.
4. Al-Chokhachy, R., W. Fredenberg, and S. Spalding. 2008. Surveying professional opinion to inform bull trout recovery and management decisions. Fisheries 33:18-28.
5. Allen, S. 2002. John Day fish passage and screening. Bonneville Power Administration, Project 1993-06600, Portland, Oregon.
6. Anderson, H. V. 2008. Transferability of models to predict selection of cover by coastal cutthroat trout in small streams in western Oregon, USA. Master's thesis. Oregon State University, Corvallis.
7. Banish, N. P., J. T. Peterson, and R. F. Thurow. 2008. Physical, biotic, and sampling influences on diel habitat use by stream-dwelling bull trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:176-187.
8. Baxter, J. S., and J. D. McPhail. 1997. Diel microhabitat preferences of juvenile bull trout in an artificial stream channel. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:975-980.
9. Benjamin, J. R., J. B. Dunham, and M. R. Dare. 2007. Invasion by nonnative brook trout in Panther Creek, Idaho: roles of local habitat quality, biotic resistance, and connectivity to source habitats. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:875-888.
10. Bonneau, J. L., and D. L. Scarnecchia. 1998. Seasonal and diel changes in habitat use by juvenile bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki) in a mountain stream. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76:783-790.
11. Breiman, L., J. H. Friedman, R. A. Olshen, and C. G. Stone. 1984. Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth, Belmont, California.
12. Brenkman, S. J., and S. C. Corbett. 2005. Extent of anadromy in bull trout and implications for conservation of a threatened species. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:1073-1081.
13. Cross, T. K., and M. C. McInerny. 2005. Spatial habitat dynamics affecting bluegill abundance in Minnesota bass-panfish lakes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:1051-1066.
14. Dambacher, J. M., and K. K. Jones. 1997. Stream habitat of juvenile bull trout populations in Oregon and benchmarks for habitat quality. Pages 353-360 in W. C. Mackay, M. K. Brewin, and M. Monita, editors. Friends of the Bull Trout Conference Proceedings. Bull Trout Task Force, Trout Unlimited Canada, Calgary, Alberta.
15. De'ath, G., and K. E. Fabricius. 2000. Classification and regression trees: a powerful yet simple technique for ecological data analysis. Ecology 81:3178-3192.
16. Dunham, J., C. Baxter, K. Fausch, W. Fredenberg, S. Kitano, I. Koizumi, K. Morita, T. Nakamura, B. Rieman, K. Savvaitova, J. Sanford, E. Taylor, and S. Yamamota. 2008. Evolution, ecology, and conservation of Dolly Varden, white-spotted char, and bull trout. Fisheries 33:537-550.
17. Dunham, J. B., and B. E. Rieman. 1999. Metapopulation structure of bull trout: influences physical, biotic, and geometrical landscape characteristics. Ecological Applications 9:642-655.
18. Dunham, J., B. Rieman, and G. Chandler. 2003. Influences of temperature and environmental variables on the distribution of bull trout within streams at the southern margin of its range. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:894-904.
19. Dunham, J. B., A. E. Rosenberger, R. F. Thurow, C. A. Dollog, and P. J. Howell. 2009. Coldwater fish in wadeable streams. Pages 119-138 in S. A. Bonar, W. A. Hubert, and D. W. Willis, editors. Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
20. Earle, J. E., and J. S. McKenzie. 2001. Habitat use by juvenile bull trout in mountain streams in the Copton Creek drainage, Alberta, and its relation to mining activity. Pages 121-128 in M. K. Brewin, A. J. Paul, and M. Monita, editors. Bull Trout II Conference Proceedings. Bull Trout Task Force, Trout Unlimited Canada, Calgary, Alberta.
21. Edwards, T. C. Jr., D. R. Cutler, N. E. Zimmerman, L. Geiser, and G. G. Moisen. 2006. Effects of sample survey design on the accuracy of classification tree models in species distribution models. Ecological Modeling 199:1332-141.
22. Fausch, K. D., C. E. Torgersen, C.V. Baxter, and H. W. Li. 2002. Landscapes to riverscapes: bridging the gap between research and conservation of stream fishes. BioScience 52:483-498.
23. Fraley, J. J., and B. B. Shepard. 1989. Life history, ecology and population status of migratory bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in the Flathead Lake and River system, Montana. Northwest Science 63:133-143.
24. Frissell, C. A., W. J. Liss, C. E. Warren, and M. D. Hurley. 1986. A hierarchical framework for stream habitat classification: viewing streams in a watershed context. Environmental Management 10:199-214.
25. Gibson, R. J., and G. Power. 1975. Selection by brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) of shade related to water depth. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 32:1652-1656.
26. Goetz, F. A. 1997. Habitat use of juvenile bull trout in Cascade Mountain streams of Oregon and Washington. Pages 339-351 in W. C. Mackay, M. K. Brewin, and M. Monita, editors. Friends of the Bull Trout Conference Proceedings. Bull Trout Task Force, Trout Unlimited Canada, Calgary, Alberta.
27. Gunckel, S. L., A. R. Hemmingsen, and J. L. Li. 2002. Effect of bull trout and brook trout interactions on foraging habitat, feeding behavior, and growth. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:1119-1130.
28. Hagen, J., and E. B. Taylor. 2001. Resource partitioning as a factor limiting gene flow in hybridizing populations of Dolly Varden char (Salvelinus malma) and bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:2037-2047.
29. Heitke, J. D., E. J. Archer, D. D. Dugaw, B. A. Bouwes, E. A. Archer, R. C. Henderson, and J. L. Kershner. 2007. Effectiveness monitoring for streams and riparian areas: sampling protocol for stream channel attributes. Available: fs.fed.us/biology/fishecology/emp. (March 2009).
30. Homel, K., and P. Budy. 2008. Temporal and spatial variability in the migration patterns of juvenile and subadult bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in northeastern Oregon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:869-880.
31. Howell, P. J., J. B. Dunham, and P. M. Sankovich. 2009. Relationships between water temperatures and upstream migration, cold water refuge use, and spawning of adult bull trout from the Lostine River, Oregon, USA. Ecology of Freshwater Fish: DOI 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2009. 00393.x.
32. Imhof, J. G., J. Fitzgibbon, and W. K. Annable. 1996. A hierarchical evaluation system for characterizing watershed ecosystems for fish habitat. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:312-326.
33. Jakober, M. J., T. E. McMahon, and R. F. Thurow. 2000. Diel habitat partitioning by bull charr and cutthroat trout during fall and winter in Rocky Mountain streams. Environmental Biology of Fishes 59:79-89.
34. Jakober, M. J., T. E. McMahon, R. F. Thurow, and C. G. Clancy. 1998. Role of stream ice on fall and winter movements and habitat use by bull trout and cutthroat trout in Montana headwater streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:223-235.
35. Johnston, F. D., J. R. Post, C. J. Mushens, J. D. Stelfox, A. J. Paul, and B. Lajeunesse. 2007. The demography of recovery of an overexploited bull trout, Salvelinus confluentus, population. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:113-126.
36. Kershner, J. L., B. B. Roper, N. Bouwes, R. Henderson, and E. Archer. 2004. An analysis of stream habitat conditions in reference and managed watersheds on some federal lands within the Columbia River basin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:1363-1375.
37. Knighton, D. 1998. Fluvial forms and processes. Oxford University Press, New York.
38. McCune, B., and J. B. Grace. 2002. Analysis of ecological communities. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, Oregon.
39. Mesa, M. G., L. K. Weiland, and G. B. Zydlewski. 2004. Critical swimming speeds of wild bull trout. Northwest Science 78:59-65.
40. Montgomery, D. R., and L. H. MacDonald. 2002. Diagnostic approach to stream channel assessment and monitoring. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:1-16.
41. Muhlfeld, C. C., S. Glutting, R. Hunt, D. Daniels, and B. Marotz. 2003. Winter diel habitat use and movement by subadult bull trout in the upper Flathead River, Montana. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:163-171.
42. Muhlfeld, C. C., and B. Marotz. 2005. Seasonal movement and habitat use by subadult bull trout in the upper Flathead River system, Montana. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:797-810.
43. Nakano, S., S. Kitano, K. Nakai, and K. D. Fausch. 1998. Competitive interactions for foraging and microhabitat among introduced brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis, and native bull charr, S. confluentus, and westslope cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi, in a Montana stream. Environmental Biology of Fishes 52:345-355.
44. Nehlsen, W., J. E. Williams, and J. A. Lichatowich. 1991. Pacific salmon at the crossroads-stocks at risk from California, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Fisheries 16(2):4-21.
45. Nelson, M. L., T. E. McMahon, and R. F. Thurow. 2002. Decline of the migratory form in bull char, Salvelinus confluentus, and implications for conservation. Environmental Biology of Fishes 64:321-332.
46. Olden, J. D., and D. A. Jackson. 2001. Fish-habitat relationships in lakes: gaining predictive and explanatory insight using artificial neural networks. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:878-897.
47. Parker, B. R., D. W. Schindler, F. M. Wilhelm, and D. B. Donald. 2007. Bull trout population responses to reductions in angler effort and retention limits. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:848-859.
48. Polacek, M. C., and P. W. James. 2003. Diel microhabitat use of age-0 bull trout in Indian Creek, Washington. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 12:81-86.
49. Post, J. R., C. Mushens, A. Paul, and M. Sullivan. 2003. Assessment of alternative harvest regulations for sustaining recreational fisheries: model development and application to bull trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:22-34.
50. Power, G., R. S. Brown, and J. G. Imhof. 1999. Groundwater and fish-insights from northern North America. Hydrological Processes 13:401-422.
51. Quist, M. C., and W. A. Hubert. 2005. Relation effects of biotic and abiotic processes: a test of the biotic-abiotic constraining hypothesis as applied to cutthroat trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:676-686.
52. R Development Core Team. 2004. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna. Available: r-project.org. (March 2009).
53. Rich, C. F., T. E. McMahon, B. E. Rieman, and W. L. Thompson. 2003. Local-habitat, watershed, and biotic features associated with bull trout occurrence in Montana streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132:1053-1064.
54. Rieman, B. E., D. Isaak, S. Adams, D. Horan, D. Nagel, C. Luce, and D. Myers. 2007. Anticipated climate warming effects on bull trout habitats and populations across the interior Columbia River basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1552-1565.
55. Rieman, B. E., D. C. Lee, and R. F. Thurow. 1997. Distribution, status, and likely future trends of bull trout within the Columbia River and Klamath basins. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:1111-1125.
56. Rieman, B. E., and J. D. McIntyre. 1993. Demographic and habitat requirements for conservation of bull trout. U.S. Department of Agriculture General Technical Report INT-302.
57. Rieman, B. E., and J. D. McIntyre. 1995. Occurrence of bull trout in naturally fragmented habitat patches of varied size. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124:285-296.
58. Rieman, B. E., J. T. Peterson, and D. L. Myers. 2006. Have brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) displaced bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) along longitudinal gradients in central Idaho streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:63-78.
59. Ripley, T., G. Scrimgeour, and M. S. Boyce. 2005. Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) occurrence and abundance influenced by cumulative industrial developments in a Canadian boreal forest watershed. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:2431-2442.
60. Roper, B. B., and D. L. Scarnecchia. 1995. Observer variability in classifying habitat types in stream surveys. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 15:49-53.
61. Rosenberger, A. E., and J. B. Dunham. 2005. Validation of abundance estimates from mark-recapture and removal techniques for rainbow trout captured by electrofishing in small streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:1395-1410.
62. Rosenfeld, J. 2003. Assessing the habitat requirements of stream fishes: an overview and evaluation of different approaches. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132:953-968.
63. Rosenfeld, J. S., and S. Boss. 2001. Fitness consequences of habitat use for juvenile cutthroat trout: energetic costs and benefits in pools and riffles. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:585-593.
64. Saffel, P. D., and D. L. Scarnecchia. 1995. Habitat use by juvenile bull trout in belt-series geology watersheds of northern Idaho. Northwest Science 69:304-316.
65. Selong, J. H., T. E. McMahon, A.V. Zale, and F. T. Barrows. 2001. Effect of temperature on growth and survival of bull trout, with application of an improved method for determining thermal tolerance in fishes. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:1026-1037.
66. Sexauer, H. M., and P. W. James. 1997. Microhabitat use by juvenile bull trout in four streams located in the eastern Cascades, Washington. Pages 361-370 in W. C. Mackay, M. K. Brewin, and M. Monita, editors. Friends of the Bull Trout Conference Proceedings. Trout Unlimited Canada, Calgary, Alberta.
67. Spangler, R. E., and D. L. Scarnecchia. 2001. Summer and fall microhabitat utilization of juvenile bull trout and cutthroat trout in a wilderness stream, Idaho. Hydrobiologia 452:145-154.
68. Spalding, S., N. P. Peterson, and T. P. Quinn. 1995. Summer distribution, survival, and growth of juvenile coho salmon under varying experimental conditions of brushy instream cover. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124:124-130.
69. Stauffer, H. B., C. J. Ralph, and S. L. Miller. 2002. Incorporating detection uncertainty into presence-absence surveys for marbled murret. Pages 357-366 in J. M. Scott, P. J. Heglund, M. L. Morrison, J. B. Haufler, M. G. Raphael, W. A. Wall, and F. B. Samson, editors. Predicting species occurrences: issues of accuracy and scale. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
70. Stevens, D. L., and A. R. Olsen. 1999. Spatially restricted surveys over time for aquatic resources. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 4:415-428.
71. Suttle, K. B., M. E. Power, J. M. Levine, and C. McNeely. 2004. How fine sediment in riverbeds impairs growth and survival of juvenile salmonids. Ecological Applications 14:969-974.
72. Swanberg, T. R. 1997. Movements of and habitat use by fluvial bull trout in the Blackfoot River, Montana. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:735-746.
73. Tappel, P. D., and T. C. Bjorn. 1983. A new method of relating size of spawning gravel to salmonid embryo survival. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 3:123-135.
74. Thurow, R. F. 1997. Habitat utilization and diel behavior of juvenile bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at the onset of winter. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 6:1-7.
75. Thurow, R. F., J. T. Peterson, and J. W. Guzevich. 2006. Utility and validation of day and night snorkel counts for estimating bull trout abundance in first-to third-order streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:217-232.
76. USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 2004. Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) draft recovery plan. USFWS, Portland, Oregon.
77. Waples, R. S. 1991. Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus spp., and the definition of "species" under the Endangered Species Act. Marine Fisheries Review 53:11-22.
78. Watry, C. B., and D. L. Scarnecchia. 2008. Adfluvial and fluvial life history variations and migratory patterns of a relict charr, Salvelinus confluentus, stock in westcentral Idaho, USA. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 17:231-243.
79. Watson, G., and T. W. Hillman. 1997. Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of bull trout: an investigation at hierarchical scales. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:237-252.