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Thermal landscapes in a changing climate: biological implications of water temperature patterns in an extreme year
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2019
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Source: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(10), 1740-1756
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Journal Title:Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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Description:Record-breaking droughts and high temperatures in 2015 across the Pacific Northwest, USA, provide an opportunistic glimpse into potential future thermal regimes of rivers and their implications for freshwater fishes. We applied spatial stream network models to data collected every 30 min for 4 years at 42 sites on the Snoqualmie River (Washington, United States) to compare water temperature patterns, summarized with relevance to particular life stages of native and nonnative fishes, in 2015 with more typical conditions (2012–2014). Although 2015 conditions were drier and warmer than what had been observed since 1960, patterns were neither consistent over the year nor on the network. Some locations showed dramatic increases in air and water temperature, whereas others had temperatures that differed little from typical years; these results contrasted with existing forecasts of future thermal landscapes. If we will observe years like 2015 more frequently in the future, we can expect conditions to be less favorable to native, cool-water fishes such as Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) but beneficial to warm-water nonnative species such as largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).
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Source:Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(10), 1740-1756
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ISSN:0706-652X;1205-7533;
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