Injury frequency and severity in crayfish communities as indicators of physical habitat quality and water quality within agricultural headwater streams
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DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-8171-z
Abstract: Crayfishes (Decapoda) are common inhabitants of agricultural headwater streams in the Midwestern USA that have been impacted by physical habitat degradation and contamination by agricultural pollutants. The frequency and severity of injuries within crayfish communities… read more here.
Keywords: quality; physical habitat; habitat quality; water ... See more keywords
Optimizing reservoir operation to avoid downstream physical habitat loss using coupled ANFIS- metaheuristic model
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DOI: 10.1007/s12145-021-00671-w
Abstract: The present study proposes a novel optimization framework of the reservoir operation in terms of optimizing storage benefits while alleviating downstream environmental impacts. We utilized adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system as the habitat model to… read more here.
Keywords: reservoir operation; physical habitat; algorithm; model ... See more keywords
MoRPh: a citizen science tool for monitoring and appraising physical habitat changes in rivers
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DOI: 10.1111/wej.12259
Abstract: The MoRPh survey is designed to enable citizen scientists to monitor physical habitat mosaics and human pressures within short (up to 40 m) river reaches called modules. MoRPh underpins a multiscale Modular River Survey, providing… read more here.
Keywords: physical habitat; habitat; river; citizen science ... See more keywords