Stream temperature sensitivity to climate warming in California's Sierra Nevada: Impacts to coldwater habitat

Climatic Change

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 149-170

  Null, Sarah E ^a   Viers, Joshua H ^b   Deas, Michael L ^c   Tanaka, Stacy K ^c   Mount, Jeffrey F ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Watercourse Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORESTRY; LAND USE; RESTORATION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STREAM TEMPERATURE MODELS; STREAM TEMPERATURES; THERMAL HETEROGENEITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; AQUATIC ORGANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD WATER; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SNOWPACK; STREAM; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871343167     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0459-8     Document Type: Article

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