Final Report: Data provision and projected impact of climate change on fish biodiversity within the Desert LCC

• Main Authors: Cohen, Adam E., Labay, Ben J., Hendrickson, Dean A., Casarez, Melissa, Sarkar, Sahotra
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Texas; New Mexico; Colorado; United States; Chihuahua; Coahuila; Nuevo Leon; Tamaulipas; Cuatro Ciénegas; Mexico; Rio Grande; Pecos River; Rio Bravo; Rio Conchos; Rio Salado; Rio Salinas; Rio San Juan; Endangered Fish; Threatened Fish; Freshwater Fish; Museum Occurrence Records; Species Distribution Models; Climate Change; Astyanax mexicanus; Notropis braytoni; Macrhybopsis aestivalis; Notropis jemezanus; Rhinichthys cataractae; Cyprinus carpio; Notropis amabilis; Lepomis auritus; Cyprinodon pecosensis; Gambusia speciosa; Gambusia senilis; Moxostoma austrinum; Cyprinodon eximius; Ictiobus bubalus; Gila pandora; Morone chrysops; Dionda diaboli; Catostomus plebeius; Hybognathus amarus; Platygobio gracilis; Gambusia nobilis; Hybognathus placitus; Micropterus dolomieu; Anguilla rostrata; Atractosteus spatula; Awaous banana; Ctenogobius claytonii; Cyprinella lutrensis blairi; Cyprinodon bovinus; Cyprinodon elegans; Etheostoma lepidum; Gambusia clarkhubbsi; Gambusia gaigei; Hypostomus sp; Ictalurus sp; Morone saxatilis; Notropis orca; Dionda episcopa; Moxostoma congestum; Cycleptus elongatus; Notropis chihuahua; Ictalurus furcatus; Cyprinella proserpina; Oreochromis aureus; Ictalurus lupus; Etheostoma grahami; Lepisosteus osseus; Lucania parva; Moxostoma albidum; Dionda argentosa; Notropis simus pecosensis; Notropis simus simus; Oncorhynchus clarki virginialis; Percina macrolepida; Phenacobius mirabilis; Scaphirhynchus platorynchus; Semotilus atromaculatus; Maxent; Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative; United States Fish and Wildlife Service; DLCC; historic fish occurrence; Fishes of Texas; Texas Natural History Collection; Global Biodiversity information Facility; Fishnet2; Fishbase; GPLCC; Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative; University of Michigan Icthyology Collection; New Mexico Biodiversity collections consortium; University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection; Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Climate change projections; Fish conservation; Aquatic resource management; Mexican tetra; Tamaulipas shiner; Speckled chub; Rio Grande shiner; Longnose dace; Common carp; Texas shiner; Roundnose minnow; Gray red horse; Blue sucker; Chihuahua shiner; Blue catfish; Proserpine shiner; Blue tilapia; Headwater catfish; Rio Grande darter; Longnose gar; Rainwater killifish; Longlip jumprock; Manantial roundnose minnow; Redbreast sunfish; Pecos pupfish; Tex-Mex gambusia; Blotched gambusia; Mexican redhorse; Conchos pupfish; Smallmouth buffalo; Rio Grande chub; White bass; Devils river minnow; Rio Grande sucker; Rio Grande silvery minnow; Flathead chub; Pecos gambusia; Plains minnow; Smallmouth bass; American eel; Alligator gar; River goby; Mexican goby; Maravillas red shiner; Leon Springs pupfish; Comanche Springs pupfish; Green throat darter; San Felipe gambusia; Big Bend gambusia; Armored catfish; Chihuahua catfish; Striped bass; Phantom shiner; Pecos bluntnose shiner; Bluntnose shiner; Rio Grande cutthroat; Bigscale logperch; Suckermouth minnow; Shovelnose sturgeon; Creek chub; San Juan; Alabama; Gar’; San Felipe; Orca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22475

The four primary objectives of this project were to: (1) compile a dataset of fish occurrence records for the entirety of the Rio Grande drainage in the US and Mexico; (2) improve that dataset by reformatting dates, synonymizing species names to a modern taxonomy, georeferencing localities, and flag...