Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023
Dodd H. Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023. 2001-2023. National Park Service https://doi.org/10.57830/2303295
This project houses the Data Package and associated products for a monitoring protocol of fish community data for Buffalo National River, Ozark National Scenic Riverways and multiple prairie stream park units throughout the Midwest. The data within this project includes fish species counts, site conditions, water quality and habitat measures, and stream discharge data for fish communities in Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks. Approximately 115,000 individual observations covering over 130 fish species observed at 11 NPS park units taken between 2001 and 2023. The overall goals of Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network fish community program are to monitor temporal changes in fish communities and relations between the fish communities and environmental factors. This monitoring information can be used by park managers to evaluate the effects of past and future activities and management decisions (either by park managers or others) on fish communities. The specific objectives for fish community monitoring are (1) to determine the status and trends in river, springs and small-stream fish communities by quantifying metrics (e.g. species richness, percent tolerant individuals, percent invertivores, and percent omnivores) that can be used to calculate multi-metric indices and (2) to estimate the spatial and temporal variability of fish community metric values and indices among collection sites, and relations between metrics and indices with various environmental variables (e.g. stream size, riparian characteristics, substrate characteristics, water quality, discharge, and land use).
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Dodd, Hope
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.57830/2303295
- Units
- BUFF , EFMO , GWCA , HEHO , HOME , HOSP , OZAR , PERI , PIPE , TAPR , WICR
- Keywords
- Buffalo National River, Communities, Fish, Habitat, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Prairie Streams, River, Small Stream, Spring, Stream, Stream Discharge, Water Quality
Products
- Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023 - Data Package
- Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023 - Processing Script
- Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023 - Raw Data
See also
- Protocol Methods for monitoring fish communities of Buffalo National River and Ozark National Scenic Riverways in the Ozark Plateaus of Arkansas and Missouri, Version 2.0
- Protocol for Monitoring Fish Communities in Small Streams in the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: Version 2.0
- Protocol for monitoring spring communities at Ozark National Scenic River-ways, Missouri: Version 2.0