Procedures for evaluating and prioritising the removal of fish passage barriers: a synthesis

PS Kemp, JR O'hanley - Fisheries Management and Ecology, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Techniques for assessing the impact of structural barriers on fish passage and for prioritising
restoration actions are reviewed. Current survey methodologies are biased towards specific …

Lost watersheds: barriers, aquatic habitat connectivity, and salmon persistence in the Willamette and Lower Columbia River basins

MB Sheer, EA Steel - Transactions of the American Fisheries …, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
Large portions of watersheds and streams are lost to anadromous fishes because of
anthropogenic barriers to migration. The loss of these streams and rivers has shifted the …

Distribution of salmon‐habitat potential relative to landscape characteristics and implications for conservation

KM Burnett, GH Reeves, DJ Miller… - Ecological …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
The geographic distribution of stream reaches with potential to support high‐quality habitat
for salmonids has bearing on the actual status of habitats and populations over broad spatial …

NetMap: a new tool in support of watershed science and resource management

L Benda, D Miller, K Andras, P Bigelow… - Forest …, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
An integrated suite of numerical models and analysis tools (NetMap) is created for three
purposes:(1) Develop regional scale terrain databases in support of watershed science and …

Are we meeting the challenges of landscape-scale riverine research? A review

EA Steel, RM Hughes, AH Fullerton… - Living Reviews in …, 2010‏ - research.fs.usda.gov
Identifying and quantifying relationships among landscape patterns, anthropogenic
disturbances, and aquatic ecosystems is a new and rapidly develo** approach to riverine …

The ecological importance of tributaries and confluences

SP Rice, P Kiffney, C Greene… - … , tributaries and the fluvial …, 2008‏ - books.google.com
Until recently, the ecological importance of tributary confluences had received relatively little
attention (eg Bruns et al., 1984; Petts and Greenwood, 1985), but this is now changing. It is …

Chinook salmon use of spawning patches: relative roles of habitat quality, size, and connectivity

DJ Isaak, RF Thurow, BE Rieman… - Ecological …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Declines in many native fish populations have led to reassessments of management goals
and shifted priorities from consumptive uses to species preservation. As management has …

Prioritizing restoration of structural connectivity in rivers: a graph based approach

P Segurado, P Branco, MT Ferreira - Landscape Ecology, 2013‏ - Springer
Longitudinal connectivity is considered a key issue in river management, as it shapes
ecological processes from single organisms to populations and ecosystems. Recently, it was …

An analysis of historical population structure for evolutionary significant units of Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead in the North-Central California Coast …

EP Bjorkstedt - 2005‏ - repository.library.noaa.gov
As the Technical Recovery Team (TRT) for the North-Central California Coast Recovery
Domain (NCCCRD; Figure 1.1) 1 we have been assigned the task of develo** biological …

[PDF][PDF] Redd counts

SP Gallagher, PKJ Hahn… - Salmonid field protocols …, 2007‏ - stateofthesalmon.org
The purpose of this protocol is to describe field methods for the consistent collection of
salmonid redd abundance and subsequent estimation of adult salmonid breeding …