Preliminary Assessment of Factors Influencing Riverine Fish Communities in Massachusetts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497456112)

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (MDCR), Massachusetts Department of Environmental Pro-tection (MDEP), and the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game (MDFG), conducted a preliminary investigation of fish communities in small- to medium-sized Massachusetts streams. The objective of this investigation was to determine relations between fish-community characteristics and anthro-pogenic alteration, including flow alteration and impervious cover, relative to the effect of physical basin and land-cover (environmental) characteristics. Fish data were obtained for 756 fish-sampling sites from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife fish-community database. A review of the literature was used to select a set of fish metrics responsive to flow alteration.

Author: U. S. Department of the Interior
ISBN-10: 1497456118
ISBN-13: 9781497456112
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2014
Pages: 58
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.12d