Differences Between Two Regional Aquatic Assessments in the Colorado Plateau
Location
USU Eccles Conference Center
Event Website
http://water.usu.edu
Start Date
4-5-2016 5:03 PM
End Date
4-5-2016 5:06 PM
Description
Regional aquatic assessments are used to prioritize areas for conservation, restoration, or development. They are designed to summarize distributions of species and habitats and quantify stressors. Although these assessments have been used for decades, no standard approach has emerged. Two recent assessments spanned the Colorado Plateau ecoregion. Trout Unlimited (TU) used an indicator-scoring approach to assess the condition of wild trout habitat, and a BLM Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA) used “fuzzy logic” to quantify ‘aquatic intactness’. Both approaches produced HUC12 watershed scores, and we used a difference map to compare their outcomes. Scores were correlated (? = +0.57, p-value =
Differences Between Two Regional Aquatic Assessments in the Colorado Plateau
USU Eccles Conference Center
Regional aquatic assessments are used to prioritize areas for conservation, restoration, or development. They are designed to summarize distributions of species and habitats and quantify stressors. Although these assessments have been used for decades, no standard approach has emerged. Two recent assessments spanned the Colorado Plateau ecoregion. Trout Unlimited (TU) used an indicator-scoring approach to assess the condition of wild trout habitat, and a BLM Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA) used “fuzzy logic” to quantify ‘aquatic intactness’. Both approaches produced HUC12 watershed scores, and we used a difference map to compare their outcomes. Scores were correlated (? = +0.57, p-value =
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Comments
A poster by Christian Perry, who is with Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences