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Geomorphic Influences on the Distribution of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming

 

作者: CarterG. Kruse,   WayneA. Hubert,   FrankJ. Rahel,  

 

期刊: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  (Taylor Available online 1997)
卷期: Volume 126, issue 3  

页码: 418-427

 

ISSN:0002-8487

 

年代: 1997

 

DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1997)126<0418:GIOTDO>2.3.CO;2

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Influences of large-scale abiotic, geomorphic characteristics on distributions of Yellowstone cutthroat troutOncorhynchus clarki bouvieriare poorly understood. We sampled 151 sites on 56 perennial streams in the Greybull–Wood river drainage in northwestern Wyoming to determine the effects of geomorphic variables on Yellowstone cutthroat trout distributions. Channel slope, elevation, stream size, and barriers to upstream movement significantly influenced the presence and absence of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Wild populations of Yellowstone cutthroat trout were not found upstream of barriers to fish migration, at sites with channel slopes of 10% or greater, or at elevations above 3,182 m. Based on channel slope alone, logistic regression models correctly classified presence or absence of Yellowstone cutthroat trout in 83% of study sites. The addition of elevation and stream size in the models increased classification to 87%. Logistic models tested on an independent data set had agreement rates as high as 91 % between actual and predicted fish presence. Large-scale geomorphic variables influence Yellowstone cutthroat trout distributions, and logistic functions can predict these distributions with a high degree of accuracy.

 

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