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Salmonids. Cyprinids. Benthic fishes. Coldwater fishes. Catostomids. Fish assemblage. Scaling of fish assemblages and habitat relationships. Patchiness in fish distribution ( WARM stream). COOL stream. COLD stream. Spatial variability of juvenile chinook in a WARM stream.
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Salmonids Cyprinids Benthic fishes Coldwater fishes Catostomids Fish assemblage
Spatial variability of juvenile chinook in aWARMstream Middle Fork John Day River
COOL stream North Fork John Day River
COLD stream Wenaha River
Multivariate analysis of community structure in aWARMstream Middle Fork John Day River
COOLstream North Fork John Day River
COLDstream Wenaha River
Within-stream variability North Fork John Day River Downstream section
Scale-dependent relationships Effects of spatial extent on ecological relationships(Nekola and Wagner 2001) • Thermal crossover between warm- and coldwater species 20-22°C
Torgersen, C. E., C. V. Baxter, H. W. Li, and B. A. McIntosh. 2006. Landscape influences on longitudinal patterns of river fishes: Spatially continuous analysis of fish-habitat relationships. Pages 473-492 in R. M. Hughes, L. Wang, and P. W. Seelbach, editors. Landscape influences on stream habitats and biological assemblages. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.