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Integrating fish swimming abilities into rapid road crossing barrier assessment: Case studies in the southeastern United States — Europe PMC PMID:38416762

Source: Europe PMC (en)
Original: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/38416762
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298911
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@misc{dc7b5ee319cd80,
  title = {Integrating fish swimming abilities into rapid road crossing barrier assessment: Case studies in the southeastern United States — Europe PMC PMID:38416762},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/38416762},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_7b5ee319cd80; sha256 406bc02a0884e3822cc9e7e012122728a8187d7b2bfa165fbe15addf25897882},
  year = {2026}
}

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Many aquatic networks are fragmented by road crossing structures; remediating these barriers to allow fish passage is critical to restoring connectivity. Maximizing connectivity requires effective barrier identification and prioritization, but many barrier prioritization efforts do not consider swimming capabilities of target species. Given the many potential barriers within watersheds, inventory efforts integrating species-specific swimming speeds into rapid assessment protocols may allow for more accurate barrier removal prioritization. In this study, we demonstrate an approach for integrating fish swimming speeds into rapid barrier assessment and illustrate its utility via two case studies. We measured critical swimming speeds (Ucrit) of two stream-resident fish species with very different swimming modes: Yoknapatawpha Darter (Etheostoma faulkneri), an at-risk species whose current distribution is restricted to highly degraded habitat, and Bluehead Chub (Nocomis leptocephalus), an important host species for the federally endangered Carolina Heelsplitter mussel (Lasmigona decorata). We assessed potential barriers for Yoknapatawpha Darters in the Mississippi-Yocona River watershed, and Bluehead Chubs in the Stevens Creek watershed, South Carolina, USA. We integrated Ucrit into the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP) barrier assessment protocol by estimating the proportion of individuals per species swimming at least as fast as the current through the assessed structures. Integrating Ucrit estimates into the SARP protocol considerably increased barrier severity estimates and rankings only for Yoknapatawpha Darters in the Yocona River watershed. These results indicate the importance of including species-specific swimming abilities in rapid barrier assessments and the importance of species-watershed contexts in estimating where swimming speed information might be most important. Our method has broad application for those working to identify barriers more realistically to improve species-specific fish passage. This work represents a next step in improving rapid barrier assessments and could be improved by investigating how results change with different measurements of swimming abilities and structure characteristics.

Tema degli esploratori: terra, clima ed energia (ricerca Europe PMC «hydrology», solo open access).
Pubblicazione: PloS one, 2024 (prima pubblicazione 2024-02-28).
Identificativi: PMID 38416762 · PMCID PMC10901344 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0298911.
Descrittori MeSH principali: Cyprinidae; Perches.
Pagina: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/38416762 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298911. Autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza dell'articolo dichiarata da Europe PMC: CC0 (la versione è indicata dall'editore sulla pagina). Abstract riportato senza modifiche al contenuto, con attribuzione; deposito marcato CC0.
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