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Habitat use and distribution of lithophilic spawning and riffle fishes in the East Fork Black River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Freshwater streams are dynamic ecosystems that house diversity of taxa adapted to and dependent on habitat characteristics these flowing systems. Conservation of these ecosystems, requires an understanding of the abiotic ...
Streams in a changing landscape : identifying candidate reference reaches to assess the physical and biotic integrity of Missouri's wadeable streams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
North American freshwater resources have grown increasingly imperiled as a result of human-induced landscape alterations, with many present-day stream fish and aquatic invertebrate communities representing only a fraction ...
Assessing the vulnerability of stream communities and the consistency and use of biotic indices in least-disturbed streams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The need in freshwater conservation is to understand the current status of aquatic biota so that we can recognize when degradation or changes occur. Because stream habitats and communities are dynamic, it is important to ...
Evaluating sampling methods and investigating distribution and richness of fish and amphibians in Missouri wetlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Freshwater wetlands are some of the most imperiled ecosystems on the planet, meaning species that depend on them are at great risk. In Missouri, wetland ...
Habitat selection and movement by spotted bass and shorthead redhorse downstream of a hydropeaking dam in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Flow alteration caused by hydropeaking dams may disrupt the natural flow regime and impact physical habitat and biological community, thus threatening the health of freshwater ecosystems. Life history strategies of fish ...
Multi-scale resource selection of Niangua darters in the Osage River Basin, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Understanding temporal and spatial habitat relationships is important to the recovery of the federally threatened Niangua darter Etheostoma nianguae, and other imperiled freshwater fishes. We evaluated resource selection ...
Habitat selection, movement, and home range of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) following a habitat enhancement project in Table Rock Lake, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Over 2,000 augmentation structures (trees, stumps, and rock piles) have been distributed throughout Table Rock Lake, Missouri. Our objectives were to determine habitat selection, movement, and home range of largemouth bass ...
An assessment of stream fish vulnerability and an evaluation of conservation networks in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Stream fish species in Missouri are being exposed to habitat degradation, as well as increases in stream temperature and alterations to the flow regime due to climate change. These threats are likely to have negative ...
Translocation of humpback chub (Gila cypha) and food-web dynamics in Grand Canyon National Park tributary streams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Humpback chub Gila cypha, a morphologically unique large-bodied cyprinid, is adapted to exist in the Colorado River and it's major tributaries and is ...