Effect of Instream Sand Dredging on Fish Communities in the Kansas River USA: Current and Historical Perspectives

Paukert, Craig P.; Schloesser, Joshua; Fischer, Jesse R.; Eitzmann, Jeff; Pitts, Kristen; Thornbrugh, Darren J.

doi:10.1080/02705060.2008.9664250

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“…In the Kansas River instream and riparian habitat differed longitudinally changing from diverse habitat areas to channelized, urban-dominated areas. In the lower river, deeper and narrower channels with fewer braided channels and islands were present, which is consistent with Paukert and Makinster (2009) who documented homogeneous habitats in the urban reaches of the Kansas River. The reduction of instream habitat in mid to lower reaches of the Kansas River suggests homogenization of the habitats (Lenat and Crawford, 1994;May et al, 1997;Paukert and Makinster, 2009) and was linked to the fish community variation.…”

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“…We used 1-m resolution aerial imagery from images taken on 24 Sep. 2006 to identify instream habitat (stream width, number of channels, and proportion as channel, grass islands and sand bars) and riparian land use (proportion as agriculture, forest and urban land use) in each reach (Paukert and Makinster, 2009). Transects were created perpendicular to the river channel at 0.8 km intervals within the ten reaches, and riparian habitat (200 m on each side of the bankfull height) was measured along the transect.…”

Section: Riparian and Instream Habitatmentioning

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“…Transects were created perpendicular to the river channel at 0.8 km intervals within the ten reaches, and riparian habitat (200 m on each side of the bankfull height) was measured along the transect. We used geographic information systems (ArcGIS 9.2, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA) to calculate the length of each transect that was agriculture (pasture grassland and row cropland), forested (larger trees and vegetation) and urban land (obvious roads, paved parking lots, sand pits and other anthropogenic disturbances; Paukert and Makinster, 2009). Bankfull width (m) was calculated as the distance between the two most distinct banks along each transect (Paukert and Makinster, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We used geographic information systems (ArcGIS 9.2, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA) to calculate the length of each transect that was agriculture (pasture grassland and row cropland), forested (larger trees and vegetation) and urban land (obvious roads, paved parking lots, sand pits and other anthropogenic disturbances; Paukert and Makinster, 2009). Bankfull width (m) was calculated as the distance between the two most distinct banks along each transect (Paukert and Makinster, 2009). Within the bankfull width, the number of channels (areas containing flowing water), grass islands (grass and forested areas surrounded by water) and sand bars (sand and vegetated areas between the bankfull mark and the channel) were determined.…”

Section: Riparian and Instream Habitatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Kansas River has been impacted by human land use and management practices such as agriculture, channelization, levees, dredging and urbanization Paukert et al, 2008), but little research has quantified the effects of these disturbances in altering the riverine fish community. There are 14 species that are listed by the state of Kansas as special concern, threatened or endangered including seven that are believed to be extirpated or no longer reproductively viable (Cross and Collins, 1995;Haslouer et al, 2005).…”

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Longitudinal Differences in Habitat Complexity and Fish Assemblage Structure of a Great Plains River

Eitzmann

Paukert

2010

The American Midland Naturalist

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ABSTRACT.-We investigated the spatial variation in the Kansas River (USA) fish assemblage to determine how fish community structure changes with habitat complexity in a large river. Fishes were collected at ten sites throughout the Kansas River for assessing assemblage structure in summer 2007. Aerial imagery indicated riparian land use within 200 m from the river edge was dominated by agriculture in the upper river reaches (.35%) and tended to increase in urban land use in the lower reaches (.58%). Instream habitat complexity (number of braided channels, islands) also decreased with increased urban area (,25%). Canonical correspondence analysis indicated that species that prefer high-velocity flows and sandy substrate (e.g., blue sucker Cycleptus elongatus and shovelnose sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) were associated with the upper river reaches. Abundance of omnivorous and planktivorous fish species were also higher in the lower river. The presence of fluvial dependent and fluvial specialist species was associated with sites with higher water flows, more sand bars, and log jams. Our results suggest that conserving intolerant, native species in the Kansas River may require maintaining suitable habitat for these species and restoration of impacted areas of the river.

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Section: Riparian and Instream Habitatmentioning

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Section: Riparian and Instream Habitatmentioning

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Section: Riparian and Instream Habitatmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Longitudinal Differences in Habitat Complexity and Fish Assemblage Structure of a Great Plains River

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Paukert

2010

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Response of Fish Assemblages to Habitat Changes and Fishing Activity in a Tributary of the Jinsha River in Southwest China

Yang

Qing

Jin

et al. 2020

N American J Fish Manag

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Reservoir impoundment affects fish habitat condition, in turn likely influencing the spatial and temporal distribution patterns of fish assemblage structure in the impounded area. Fishing activity and instream gravel and sand mining are important anthropogenic factors, and flow discharge, water temperature, and precipitation are important natural environmental variables; both anthropogenic and natural factors likely have impacted fish assemblage structure in impounded and unimpounded waterbodies. We used multivariate analysis to evaluate the combined effects of two adjacent reservoir impoundments in the main stem of a large river (Jinsha River; the upper segments of the Yangtze River), overfishing, instream gravel and sand mining, the natural flow regime, and other environmental variables (water temperature and precipitation) on fish assemblage structure in the Heishui River, a small, free‐flowing tributary upstream of the mainstream reservoirs. Fish assemblage data and abiotic data collected over 10 years (2008, 2010, and 2011–2017) were analyzed. The results showed that fish assemblages of the Heishui River temporally clustered into two groups that were strongly associated with the two downstream cascade reservoirs (Xiangjiaba and Xiluodu reservoirs) in the main‐stem Jinsha River. The relationships between fish assemblage structure and abiotic factors were tested using a distance‐based linear model and were visualized using distance‐based redundancy analysis, showing that the main factors explaining the interannual and seasonal variation in fish assemblage structure were instream gravel and sand mining, mainstream reservoir impoundment, and seasonal flow regime. Among these, instream gravel and sand mining in this tributary played the most significant role in affecting the temporal variation of fish assemblage structure and explained 34.12% of the total variability. Mainstream reservoir impoundment and seasonal flow regime exerted secondary effects on the temporal variation of fish assemblage structure and together explained 13.39% (7.00% and 6.39%, respectively) of the total variability. This study suggests that the relevant administrative agencies should focus more on free‐flowing habitat maintenance in this tributary and the control of instream gravel and sand mining.

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Avoiding a macabre future for Macrhybopsis—A special section on improving management and conservation of chubs

Perkin,

Brewer,

Echelle

et al. 2023

N American J Fish Manag

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Effect of Instream Sand Dredging on Fish Communities in the Kansas River USA: Current and Historical Perspectives

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Longitudinal Differences in Habitat Complexity and Fish Assemblage Structure of a Great Plains River

Longitudinal Differences in Habitat Complexity and Fish Assemblage Structure of a Great Plains River

Response of Fish Assemblages to Habitat Changes and Fishing Activity in a Tributary of the Jinsha River in Southwest China

Avoiding a macabre future for Macrhybopsis—A special section on improving management and conservation of chubs

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