Campus Units
Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
5-28-2015
Journal or Book Title
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Volume
408
First Page
101
Last Page
118
DOI
10.1144/SP408.10
Abstract
In managing fish populations, especially at-risk species, realistic mathematical models are needed to help predict population response to potential management actions in the context of environmental conditions and changing climate while effectively incorporating the stochastic nature of real world conditions. We provide a key component of such a model for the endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the form of an individual-based bioenergetics model influenced not only by temperature but also by flow. This component is based on modification of a known individual-based bioenergetics model through incorporation of: the observed ontogenetic shift in pallid sturgeon diet from marcroinvertebrates to fish; the energetic costs of swimming under flowing-water conditions; and stochasticity. We provide an assessment of how differences in environmental conditions could potentially alter pallid sturgeon growth estimates, using observed temperature and velocity from channelized portions of the Lower Missouri River mainstem. We do this using separate relationships between the proportion of maximum consumption and fork length and swimming cost standard error estimates for fish captured above and below the Kansas River in the Lower Missouri River. Critical to our matching observed growth in the field with predicted growth based on observed environmental conditions was a two-step shift in diet from macroinvertebrates to fish.
Rights
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Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Wildhaber, Mark L.; Dey, Rima; Wikle, Christopher K.; Moran, Edward H.; Anderson, Christopher J.; and Franz, Kristie J., "A stochastic bioenergetics model-based approach to translating large river flow and temperature into fish population responses: the pallid sturgeon example" (2015). Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Publications. 289.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ge_at_pubs/289
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Comments
This article is published as Mark L. Wildhaber, Rima Dey, Christopher K. Wikle, Edward H. Moran, Christopher J. Anderson and Kristie J. Franz. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 408, 101-118, 28 May 2015. doi: 10.1144/SP408.10.