A primer on stream temperature processes

JA Leach, C Kelleher, BL Kurylyk… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stream temperature is one of the most critical factors controlling aquatic ecosystem health.
Practitioners and researchers from a range of fields, including biology, ecology, hydrology …

Closing the gap between science and management of cold‐water refuges in rivers and streams

FH Mejia, V Ouellet, MA Briggs… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities and climate change threaten coldwater organisms in freshwater
ecosystems by causing rivers and streams to warm, increasing the intensity and frequency of …

The NorWeST summer stream temperature model and scenarios for the western US: A crowd‐sourced database and new geospatial tools foster a user community …

DJ Isaak, SJ Wenger, EE Peterson… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal regimes are fundamental determinants of aquatic ecosystems, which makes
description and prediction of temperatures critical during a period of rapid global change …

Riverscape approaches in practice: Perspectives and applications

CE Torgersen, C Le Pichon, AH Fullerton… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape perspectives in riverine ecology have been undertaken increasingly in the last
30 years, leading aquatic ecologists to develop a diverse set of approaches for …

River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems

V Ouellet, A St-Hilaire, SJ Dugdale, DM Hannah… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence that river temperatures are increasing under climate change,
which is expected to be exacerbated by increased abstractions to satisfy human water …

Envisioning, quantifying, and managing thermal regimes on river networks

EA Steel, TJ Beechie, CE Torgersen, AH Fullerton - BioScience, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Water temperatures fluctuate in time and space, creating diverse thermal regimes on river
networks. Temporal variability in these thermal landscapes has important biological and …

Longitudinal thermal heterogeneity in rivers and refugia for coldwater species: effects of scale and climate change

AH Fullerton, CE Torgersen, JJ Lawler, EA Steel… - Aquatic Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Climate-change driven increases in water temperature pose challenges for aquatic
organisms. Predictions of impacts typically do not account for fine-grained spatiotemporal …

Assessing the potential of drone‐based thermal infrared imagery for quantifying river temperature heterogeneity

SJ Dugdale, CA Kelleher, IA Malcolm… - Hydrological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering river temperature regimes, modifying the dynamics of
temperature‐sensitive fishes. The ability to map river temperature is therefore important for …

Cold-water habitats, climate refugia, and their utility for conserving salmonid fishes

DJ Isaak, MK Young - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Anthropogenic climate change is warming global temperatures, with significant implications
for salmonid fishes that depend on the availability of cold water during one or more life …

Riverscape recruitment: a conceptual synthesis of drivers of fish recruitment in rivers

P Humphries, A King, N McCasker… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Most fish recruitment models consider only one or a few drivers in isolation, rarely include
species' traits, and have limited relevance to riverine environments. Despite their diversity …