A large-scale conservation perspective considering endemic fishes of the North American plains

CW Hoagstrom, JE Brooks, SR Davenport - Biological Conservation, 2011 - Elsevier
Regions with unique habitats often harbor endemic taxa associated with temporally stable
habitats. We identified such habitats that sustain endemic fishes in the plains of North …

[HTML][HTML] Classifying streamflow duration: the scientific basis and an operational framework for method development

KM Fritz, TL Nadeau, JE Kelso, WS Beck, RD Mazor… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Streamflow duration is used to differentiate reaches into discrete classes (eg, perennial,
intermittent, and ephemeral) for water resource management. Because the depiction of the …

Patch dynamics in lotic systems: the stream as a mosaic

CM Pringle, RJ Naiman, G Bretschko… - Journal of the North …, 1988 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper applies concepts of landscape ecology and patch dynamics to lotic systems. We
present a framework for the investigation of pattern and process in lotic ecosystems that …

Life on the edge: the ecology of Great Plains prairie streams

WK Dodds, K Gido, MR Whiles, KM Fritz… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Great Plains streams are highly endangered and can serve as model systems for studying
disturbance ecology and related issues of resistance and resilience in temperate …

Fish assemblages and habitat gradients in a Rocky Mountain–Great Plains stream: biotic zonation and additive patterns of community change

FJ Rahel, WA Hubert - Transactions of the American Fisheries …, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
We examined the importance of zonation and species additions in explaining longitudinal
changes in the fish assemblage of a Rocky Mountain stream that descends onto the Great …

Dynamics of intermittent stream habitat regulate persistence of a threatened fish at multiple scales

TR Labbe, KD Fausch - Ecological Applications, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, threatened species management has emphasized conservation of individual
populations and has assumed that abundance within suitable habitats is primarily governed …

Upstream extirpation of four minnow species due to damming of a prairie stream

MR Winston, CM Taylor, J Pigg - Transactions of the American …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
A spatially intensive survey in 1989 of 52 sites in the Red River drainage in southwest
Oklahoma and surveys in all years from 1978 to 1987 on four sites in the drainage provided …

Suspended sediment transport in a semiarid watershed, Wadi Abd, Algeria (1973–1995)

M Achite, S Ouillon - Journal of hydrology, 2007 - Elsevier
A quantification of the fine sediment budget of a wadi (dryland river) in NW Algeria is
presented for a period of 22 hydrological years (1973–1995). The climate is Mediterranean …

Resistance and resilience of macroinvertebrate assemblages to drying and flood in a tallgrass prairie stream system

KM Fritz, WK Dodds - Hydrobiologia, 2004 - Springer
Intermittent streams are common worldwide, and the ability of invertebrates to recover from
floods and drought is a key feature of communities from these highly disturbed ecosystems …

Urbanization of a watershed and historical changes in a stream fish assemblage

LA Weaver, GC Garman - Transactions of the American Fisheries …, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
During recent decades, the Tuckahoe Creek (Virginia) watershed has been altered by
human activities, including road and bridge construction, commercial and residential …