Fringe effects: detecting bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed
Robust assessment and monitoring programs are critical for effective conservation, yet for many taxa we fail to understand how trade-offs in sampling design affect power to detect population trends and describe spatial patterns. We tested an occupancy-based sampling approach to evaluate design consi...
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ftunivtoronto:oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/107064 2023-05-15T17:46:43+02:00 Fringe effects: detecting bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed Mochnacz, Neil James MacKenzie, Darryl Ian Koper, Nicola Docker, Margaret F. Isaak, Daniel J 2021-02-01 application/pdf application/msword http://hdl.handle.net/1807/107064 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0219 unknown University of Toronto 0706-652X http://hdl.handle.net/1807/107064 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0219 Article Article Post-Print 2021 ftunivtoronto 2021-10-31T18:16:42Z Robust assessment and monitoring programs are critical for effective conservation, yet for many taxa we fail to understand how trade-offs in sampling design affect power to detect population trends and describe spatial patterns. We tested an occupancy-based sampling approach to evaluate design considerations for detecting watershed-scale population trends associated with juvenile bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) distributions. Electrofishing surveys were conducted across 275 stream sites from the Prairie Creek watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada. Site-level detectability of juvenile bull trout was not uniform, and imperfect detection affected modelled occupancy probabilities most in fringe habitats near distributional boundaries in steep reaches and large streams. We show that detecting a 30% change in watershed-level occupancy ≥78% of the time as conservation guidelines suggest, may require three repeat surveys (i.e., temporal replicates) and increased spatial sampling intensity of fringe habitats. Additional sampling effort in fringe sites could be offset by sampling fewer sites in core habitats to optimize designs for detecting demographic shifts in bull trout, while still minimizing risk of non-detection for this cryptic species. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories University of Toronto: Research Repository T-Space Canada Northwest Territories |
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Robust assessment and monitoring programs are critical for effective conservation, yet for many taxa we fail to understand how trade-offs in sampling design affect power to detect population trends and describe spatial patterns. We tested an occupancy-based sampling approach to evaluate design considerations for detecting watershed-scale population trends associated with juvenile bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) distributions. Electrofishing surveys were conducted across 275 stream sites from the Prairie Creek watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada. Site-level detectability of juvenile bull trout was not uniform, and imperfect detection affected modelled occupancy probabilities most in fringe habitats near distributional boundaries in steep reaches and large streams. We show that detecting a 30% change in watershed-level occupancy ≥78% of the time as conservation guidelines suggest, may require three repeat surveys (i.e., temporal replicates) and increased spatial sampling intensity of fringe habitats. Additional sampling effort in fringe sites could be offset by sampling fewer sites in core habitats to optimize designs for detecting demographic shifts in bull trout, while still minimizing risk of non-detection for this cryptic species. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author. |
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Mochnacz, Neil James MacKenzie, Darryl Ian Koper, Nicola Docker, Margaret F. Isaak, Daniel J Fringe effects: detecting bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed |
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Fringe effects: detecting bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed |
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Fringe effects: detecting bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed |
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fringe effects: detecting bull trout (salvelinus confluentus) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed |
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