Date of Award:
5-1981
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Engineering (EngD)
Department:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
William J. Grenney
Committee
William J. Grenney
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to present a new methodology for producing fish habitat suitability at use functions. The suitability functions are relative measures of the voluntary or involuntary preference for combinations of the values of environmental attributes by a fish species and age class. This suitability function is used to determine the relative usability of a physical stream environment as fish habitat.
A generalized function form, exponential polynomials, was selected for the development of these suitability of use functions. The maximum likelihood technique was used for function parameter solution. Derivation of the suitability functions was simulated for several stream environments having variable fish densities.
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Recommended Citation
Voos, Kenneth A., "Simulated Use of the Exponential Polynomial/Maximum Likelihood Technique in Developing Suitability of Use Functions for Fish Habitat" (1981). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 8632.
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