Impacts of highway crossings on density of brook charr in streams

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 395-403

  Pépino, Marc ^a   Rodríguez, Marco A ^a   Magnan, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic resources; Barrier; Connectivity; Environmental impact assessment; Freshwater fish; Markov random walk; Mixed models; Movement; Passage; Road ecology

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SALMONID; STREAMWATER; WATER RESOURCE;

SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84859132197     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02108.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Adams, S.B., Frissell, C.A. & Rieman, B.E. (2000) Movements of nonnative brook trout in relation to stream channel slope. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 129, 623-638.
2. Allan, J.D. (2004) Landscapes and riverscapes: the influence of land use on stream ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 35, 257-284.
3. Angeler, D.G. & Moreno, J.M. (2007) Zooplankton community resilience after press-type anthropogenic stress in temporary ponds. Ecological Applications, 17, 1105-1115.
4. Bélanger, G. & Rodríguez, M.A. (2002) Local movement as a measure of habitat quality in stream salmonids. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 64, 155-164.
5. Belford, D.A. & Gould, W.R. (1989) An evaluation of trout passage through six highway culverts in Montana. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 9, 437-445.
6. Bergstedt, L.C. & Bergersen, E.P. (1997) Health and movements of fish in response to sediment sluicing in the Wind River, Wyoming. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 54, 312-319.
7. Bouska, W.W. & Paukert, C.P. (2010) Road crossing designs and their impact on fish assemblages of Great Plains streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 139, 214-222.
8. Burnham, K.P. & Anderson, D.R. (2002) Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: A Practical Information-theoretic Approach, 2nd edn. Springer, New York.
9. Curry, R.A. & MacNeill, W.S. (2004) Population-level responses to sediment during early life in brook trout. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 23, 140-150.
10. Curry, R.A., Sparks, D. & Van De Sande, J. (2002) Spatial and temporal movements of a riverine brook trout population. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 131, 551-560.
11. Deschênes, J. & Rodríguez, M.A. (2007) Hierarchical analysis of relationships between brook trout density and stream habitat features. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 64, 777-785.
12. Downes, B.J., Barmutta, L.A., Fairweather, P.G., Faith, D.P., Keough, M.J., Lake, P.S., Mapstone, B.D. & Quinn, G.P. (2002) Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
13. Fagan, W.F. (2002) Connectivity, fragmentation, and extinction risk in dendritic metapopulations. Ecology, 83, 3243-3249.
14. Fahrig, L. (2003) Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 34, 487-515.
15. Fausch, K.D., Torgersen, C.E., Baxter, C.V. & Li, H.W. (2002) Landscapes to riverscapes: bridging the gap between research and conservation of stream fishes. BioScience, 52, 483-498.
16. Gilks, W.R., Wang, C.C., Yvonnet, B. & Coursage, P. (1993) Random-effects models for longitudinal data using Gibbs sampling. Biometrics, 49, 441-453.
17. Griffiths, A.M., Koizumi, I., Bright, D. & Stevens, J.R. (2009) A case of isolation by distance and short-term temporal stability of population structure in brown trout (Salmo trutta) within the River Dart, southwest England. Evolutionary Applications, 2, 537-554.
18. Guillemette, F., Vallée, C., Bertolo, A. & Magnan, P. (2011) The evolution of redd site selection in brook charr in different environments: same cue, same benefit for fitness. Freshwater Biology, 56, 1017-1029.
19. Harvey, B.C. & Railsback, S.F. (2009) Exploring the persistence of stream-dwelling trout populations under alternative real-world turbidity regimes with an individual-based model. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 138, 348-360.
20. Hense, Z., Martin, R.W. & Petty, J.T. (2010) Electrofishing capture efficiencies for common stream fish species to support watershed-scale studies in the central Appalachians. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 30, 1041-1050.
21. Hudy, M., Coombs, J.A., K. H. Nislow, K.H. & Letcher, B.H. (2010) Dispersal and within-stream spatial population structure of brook trout revealed by pedigree reconstruction analysis. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 139, 1276-1287.
22. Jensen, D.W., Steel, E.A., Fullerton, A.H. & Pess, G.R. (2009) Impact of fine sediment on egg-to-fry survival of Pacific salmon: a meta-analysis of published studies. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 17, 348-359.
23. Jones, M.L. & Stockwell, J.D. (1995) A rapid assessment procedure for the enumeration of salmonine populations in streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 15, 551-562.
24. Jones, J.A., Swanson, F.J., Wemple, B.C. & Snyder, K.U. (2000) Effects of roads on hydrology, geomorphology, and disturbance patches in stream networks. Conservation Biology, 14, 76-85.
25. Kemp, P.S. & O'Hanley, J.R. (2010) Procedures for evaluating and prioritising the removal of fish passage barriers: a synthesis. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 17, 297-322.
26. Kemp, P.S., Sear, D., Collins, A., Naden, P. & Jones, I. (2011) The impacts of fine sediment on riverine fish. Hydrological Processes, 25, 1800-1821.
27. Lachance, S., Dubé, M., Dostie, R. & Bérubé, P. (2008) Temporal and spatial quantification of fine-sediment accumulation downstream of culverts in brook trout habitat. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 137, 1826-1838.
28. Letcher, B.H., Nislow, K.H., Coombs, J.A., O'Donnell, M.J. & Dubreuil, T.L. (2007) Population response to habitat fragmentation in a stream-dwelling brook trout population. PLoS One, 2(11), e1139, doi:.
29. Love, M. & Taylor, R.N. (2003) Fish passage evaluation at stream crossings. California Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Part IX. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento., accessed July 2011.
30. McDonald, T.L., Erickson, W.P. & McDonald, L.L. (2000) Analysis of count data from before-after control-impact studies. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 5, 262-279.
31. McIntire, E.J.B. & Fajardo, A. (2009) Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns. Ecology, 90, 46-56.
32. Morita, K., Yamamoto, S. & Hoshino, N. (2000) Extreme life history change of white-spotted char (Salvelinus leucomaenis) after damming. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 57, 1300-1306.
33. Mortelliti, A., Amori, G., Capizzi, D., Cervone, C., Fagiani, S., Pollini, B. & Boitani, L. (2011) Independent effects of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and structural connectivity on the distribution of two arboreal rodents. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 153-162.
34. Murtaugh, P.A. (2000) Paired intervention analysis in ecology. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 5, 280-292.
35. Newcombe, C.P. & MacDonald, D.D. (1991) Effects of suspended sediments on aquatic ecosystems. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 11, 72-82.
36. Peterson, D.P. & Fausch, K.D. (2003) Upstream movement by nonnative brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) promotes invasion of native cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki) habitat. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 60, 1502-1516.
37. Poplar-Jeffers, I.O., Petty, J.T., Anderson, J.T., Kite, S.J., Strager, M.P. & Fortney, R.H. (2009) Culvert replacement and stream habitat restoration: implications from brook trout management in an Appalachian Watershed, USA. Restoration Ecology, 17, 404-413.
38. R Development Core Team. (2010) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL.
39. Rodríguez, M.A. (2010) A modeling framework for assessing long-distance dispersal and loss of connectivity in stream fish. Community Ecology of Stream Fishes: Concepts, Approaches, and Techniques (eds D.A. Jackson & K.B. Gido), pp. 263-279. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 73, Bethesda, Maryland.
40. Schick, R.S. & Lindley, S.T. (2007) Directed connectivity among fish populations in a riverine network. Journal of Applied Ecology, 44, 1116-1126.
41. Scrivener, J.C., Brown, T.G. & Andersen, B.C. (1994) Juvenile chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) utilization of Hawks Creek, a small and nonnatal tributary of the upper Fraser River. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 51, 1139-1146.
42. Stewart-Oaten, A. & Bence, J.R. (2001) Temporal and spatial variation in environmental impact assessment. Ecological Monographs, 71, 305-339.
43. Suttle, K.B., Power, M.E., Levine, J.M. & McNeely, C. (2004) How fine sediment in riverbeds impairs growth and survival of juvenile salmonids. Ecological Applications, 14, 969-974.
44. Tentelier, C. & Piou, C. (2011) Obstacles to migration constrain nest distribution of Atlantic salmon. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 20, 400-408.
45. Trombulak, S.C. & Frissell, C.A. (2000) Review of ecological effects of roads on terrestrial and aquatic communities. Conservation Biology, 14, 18-30.
46. Underwood, A.J. (1994) On beyond BACI: sampling designs that might reliably detect environmental disturbances. Ecological Applications, 4, 3-15.
47. Utz, R.M. & Hartman, K.J. (2009) Density-dependent individual growth and size dynamics of central Appalachian brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 66, 1072-1080.
48. Van Horne, B. (1983) Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality. Journal of Wildlife Management, 47, 893-901.
49. Wagner, T., Hayes, D.B. & Bremigan, M.T. (2006) Accounting for multilevel data structures in fisheries data using mixed models. Fisheries, 31, 180-187.
50. Walters, C.J., Collie, J.S. & Webb, T. (1988) Experimental-design for estimating transient responses to management disturbances. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 45, 530-538.
51. Warren, M.L. & Pardew, M.G. (1998) Road crossings as barriers to small-stream fish movement. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 127, 637-644.
52. Waters, T.F. (1995) Effects of sediment on fish. Sediment in Streams: Sources, Biological Effects and Control (ed T.F. Waters), pp. 79-118. American Fisheries Society, Monograph 7, Bethesda, Maryland.
53. Wheeler, A.P., Angermeier, P.L. & Rosenberger, A.E. (2005) Impacts of new highways and subsequent landscape urbanization on stream habitat and biota. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 13, 141-164.
54. Wofford, J.E.B., Gresswell, R.E. & Banks, M.A. (2005) Influence of barriers to movement on within-watershed genetic variation of coastal cutthroat trout. Ecological Applications, 15, 628-637.