Effective monitoring of freshwater fish

J Radinger, JR Britton, SM Carlson… - Fish and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems constitute only a small fraction of the planet's water resources, yet
support much of its diversity, with freshwater fish accounting for more species than birds …

A review and synthesis of the benefits, drawbacks, and considerations of using traps to survey fish and decapods

NM Bacheler - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Traps (or pots) are one of the oldest and most widespread scientific survey gears for fish and
decapod crustaceans around the world. Here, I review and synthesize the extensive …

Using abiotic drivers of fish spawning to inform environmental flow management

AJ King, DC Gwinn, Z Tonkin, J Mahoney… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental flows are a key restoration technique for conserving ecological function in
flow‐degraded rivers. Species‐specific, flow–biota relationships are increasingly being used …

Improving the efficiency of adaptive management methods in multiple fishways using environmental DNA

M Nakai, T Masumoto, T Asaeda, M Rahman - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Dams and weirs impede the continuity of rivers and transit of migratory fish. To overcome
this obstacle, fishways are installed worldwide; however, management after installation is …

Environmental conditions, diel period, and fish size influence the horizontal and vertical movements of red snapper

NM Bacheler, KW Shertzer, BJ Runde… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Most demersal fishes are difficult to observe and track due to methodological and analytical
constraints. We used an acoustic positioning system to elucidate the horizontal and vertical …

Imperfect detection and the determination of environmental flows for fish: challenges, implications and solutions

DC Gwinn, LS Beesley, P Close, B Gawne… - Freshwater …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Relationships between river flow characteristics and fish community/population dynamics (ie
flow–ecology relationships) underpin methods to determine and monitor environmental …

Drifting baited stereo‐videography: a novel sampling tool for surveying pelagic wildlife in offshore marine reserves

PJ Bouchet, JJ Meeuwig - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel system of drifting pelagic baited stereo‐video cameras that operate in
deep‐water, topographically complex environments typically considered inaccessible for …

Using biological records to infer long-term occupancy trends of mammals in the UK

FG Coomber, BR Smith, TA August, CA Harrower… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conservation action is usually triggered by detecting trends in species' population size,
geographical range, or occupancy (proportion of sites occupied). Robust estimates of these …

Environmental DNA analysis of river herring in Chesapeake Bay: A powerful tool for monitoring threatened keystone species

LV Plough, MB Ogburn, CL Fitzgerald, R Geranio… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling has emerged as a powerful tool to detect and quantify
species abundance in aquatic environments. However, relatively few studies have …

Comparing relative abundance, lengths, and habitat of temperate reef fishes using simultaneous underwater visual census, video, and trap sampling

NM Bacheler, NR Geraldi, ML Burton… - Marine Ecology …, 2017 - int-res.com
Unbiased counts of individuals or species are often impossible given the prevalence of
cryptic or mobile species. We used 77 simultaneous multi-gear deployments to make …