Application of the target fish community model to an urban river system

Meixler, Marcia S.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.11.030

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“…These and similar distillations of life history information are used almost universally for both assessments of biotic integrity and for the Target Fish Community (TFC) approach (e.g. Karr 1981;Simon 1999;Goldstein and Simon 1999;Meixler 2011). There are a number of discernible patterns in life history traits for fish species associated with reference sites (Table 2a).…”

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“…The Target Fish Community approach (TFC) (Bain and Meixler 2008) is one such method that has been developed and employed in urban waterway restoration (e.g. Blankers and Bain 2010;Meixler 2011). In this method, the expected fish assemblage for an impacted waterway is developed from a survey of fish assemblages of similar waterways meeting a series of criteria (e.g.…”

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The potential and limitations of linking biological monitoring data and restoration needs of urbanized waterways: a case study

Kemp

2014

Environ Monit Assess

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The implementation of effective strategies to mitigate the impacts of urbanization on waterways represents a major global challenge. Monitoring data plays an important role in the formulation of these strategies. Using monitoring and historical data compiled from around an urban area (Baltimore, USA), this paper is an assessment of the potential and limitations of the use of fish assemblage monitoring data in watershed restoration. A discriminant analysis between assemblages from urban and reference sites was used to determine faunal components which have been reduced or eliminated from Baltimore area waterways. This analysis produced a strong discrimination between fish assemblages from urban and reference sites. Species primarily associated with reference sites varied taxonomically and ecologically, were generally classified as pollution intolerant, and were native. Species associated with urbanized sites were also native, varied taxonomically and ecologically, and were mixed in pollution tolerance. One factor linking most species associated with reference sites was spawning mode (lithophilic). Spawning habitat limitations may be the mechanism through which these species have been reduced in the urbanized faunas. While this presents a strong general hypothesis, information regarding the specific habitat requirements and responses to urbanization of these species is limited. This represents a limitation to producing effective restoration strategies based on exact goals and targets. Without these, determining the type and number of restoration activities required to restore ecological communities remains problematic.

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The potential and limitations of linking biological monitoring data and restoration needs of urbanized waterways: a case study

Kemp

2014

Environ Monit Assess

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“…Consequently, there are relatively few species in Massachusetts that can be used to detect responses to anthropogenic stressors. The composition of fish assemblages in relatively unaltered rivers in New England and the expected composition of fish assemblages appropriate for restoration of main-stem rivers (referred to as Target Fish Communities) are described in Meixler (2000, 2008), Meixler, (2011), Parasiewicz (2004, Legros and Parasiewicz (2007), University of New Hampshire and others (2008), others (2006, 2009), and Kashiwagi and Richards (2009).…”

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Factors influencing riverine fish assemblages in Massachusetts

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Richards²,

Levin³

2011

Scientific Investigations Report

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For more information on the USGS-the Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment, visit http://www.usgs.gov or call 1-888-ASK-USGS.For an overview of USGS information products, including maps, imagery, and publications, visit http://www.usgs.gov/pubprodTo order this and other USGS information products, visit http://store.usgs.gov Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.Although this report is in the public domain, permission must be secured from the individual copyright owners to reproduce any copyrighted materials contained within this report. AbstractThe U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, conducted an investigation of fish assemblages in small-to medium-sized Massachusetts streams. The objective of this study was to determine relations between fish-assemblage characteristics and anthropogenic factors, including impervious cover and estimated flow alteration, relative to the effects of environmental factors, including physical-basin characteristics and land use. The results of this investigation supersede those of a preliminary analysis published in 2010. Fish data were obtained for 669 fish-sampling sites from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife fish-community database. A review of the literature was used to select fish metrics-species richness, abundance of individual species, and abundances of species grouped on life history traits-responsive to flow alteration. The contributing areas to the fish-sampling sites were delineated and used with a geographic information system to determine a set of environmental and anthropogenic factors that were tested for use as explanatory variables in regression models. Reported and estimated withdrawals and return flows were used together with simulated unaltered streamflows to estimate altered streamflows and indicators of flow alteration for each fish-sampling site. Altered streamflows and indicators of flow alteration were calculated on the basis of methods developed in a previous U.S. Geological Survey study in which unaltered daily streamflows were simulated for a 44-year period (water years 2 1961-2004), and streamflow alterations were estimated by use of water-withdrawal and wastewater-return data previously reported to the State for the 2000-04 period and estimated domestic-well withdrawals and septic-system discharges.A variable selection process, conducted using principal components analysis and Spearman rank correlation, was used to select a set of 15 non-redundant environmental and anthropogenic factors to test for use as explanatory variables in the regression analyses. Twenty-one fish species were used in a multivariate analysis of fish-assemblage patterns. Results of nonmetric multidimensional scaling and hiera...

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“…The most widely used methods were community-based approaches such as IBI (index of biological integrity) (Simon and Emery, 1995;Ganasan and Hughes, 1998;Lyons et al, 2001;Emery et al, 2003;Araújob et al, 2003;Long and Walker, 2005;TejerinaGarro et al, 2006;Pinto et al, 2006;Zhu and Chang, 2008), FBI (the fish-based index) (Oberdorff et al, 2002), TFC (the target fish community) (Meixler, 2011) and some other multiple-metric methods (Pont et al, 2006;Bergerot et al, 2008;Terra and Araújob, 2011). However, these methods have presented unique challenges (Simon and Sanders, 1999).…”

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confidence: 99%