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Data or information used from this page should be cited as: Rieman, B.E., D.J. Isaak, D. Myers, S. Adams, C. Luce, D. Horan, D. Nagel. 2007. Anticipated effects of climate warming on bull trout within the Interior Columbia River Basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 136: 1552-1565.

Data also available at the RMRS Data Archive

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Project Summary

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Model Development, GIS Processing Overview, and Metadata

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Includes information on model development, GIS processing and metadata

Table Data

Fish Sample and Air Temperature Data

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Model development and data

GIS Data and Metadata - Interior Columbia River Basin

These GIS data are intended to assist users in understanding general patterns in bull trout distributions and inferring potential alteration of these distributions with changes in future mean annual air temperatures. The data have been developed specifically for bull trout and are not intended for use with other aquatic organisms unless similar linkages with air temperatures can be established. The data are most appropriate for broad scale displays and inference (i.e., map scales ~ 1:1,000,000) and should not be applied at finer scales, where local conditions may cause significant deviations from model predictions. The lower limit bull trout model predicts accurately (R² = 0.74) across the Columbia River basin, but has a RMSE of 180 m (RMSE = average elevation difference between observed values and model predictions). This amount of error would easily obscure meaningful inference when applied to an individual stream.

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This dataset consists of occurrences and absences for bull trout <150 mm in length that were documented by electrofishing surveys of stream reaches conducted by fisheries biologists from several agencies across the interior Columbia River basin in the late 20th century. The data were aggregated by RMRS scientists and used to develop a model that predicted the lower elevation limit of juvenile bull trout in streams across the interior Columbia River basin. Note that the dataset contains additional bull trout survey results beyond those from the 76 streams used to develop the model. For additional details, see the companion publication: Rieman, B.E., Isaak, D., Adams, S., Horan, D., Nagel, D., Luce, C. and Myers, D., 2007. Anticipated climate warming effects on bull trout habitats and populations across the interior Columbia River basin. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 1552-1565. Cite as: Horan, Dona L.; Wollrab, Sherry P.; Rieman, Bruce E.; Isaak, Daniel J.; Adams, Susan, Nagel, David E.; Luce, Charles H.; Myers, Deborah. (2007), Data from Anticipated climate warming effects on bull trout habitats and populations across the interior Columbia River basin, Dryad, Dataset, doi:10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsts2.	Bull Trout Survey dataset GIS Shapefile Excel Spreadsheet
Detailed process steps, documentation and metadata	Documentation and Metadata
Fish sample and air temperature table data	Model Development
Study area hydrologic units (HUCs)	Watersheds
Lower limit elevation line files	Lower Limit Files
TauDEM stream lines	Stream Lines
Lower limit elevation and stream line intersection tables	Intersection Tables