Hydrology and trout populations of cold-water rivers of Michigan and Wisconsin
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Abstract
Statistical multiple-regression analyses showed significant relationships between trout populations and hydrologic parameters. Parameters showing the higher levels of significance were temperature, hardness of water, percentage of gravel bottom, percentage of bottom vegetation, variability of streamflow, and discharge per unit drainage area. Trout populations increase with lower levels of annual maximum water temperatures, with increase in water hardness, and with increase in percentage of gravel and bottom vegetation. Trout populations also increase with decrease in variability of streamflow, and with increase in discharge per unit drainage area. Most hydrologic parameters were significant when evaluated collectively, but no parameter, by itself, showed a high degree of correlation with trout populations in regression analyses that included all the streams sampled. Regression analyses of stream segments that were restricted to certain limits of hardness, temperature, or percentage of gravel bottom showed improvements in correlation. Analyses of trout populations, in pounds per acre and pounds per mile and hydrologic parameters resulted in regression equations from which trout populations could be estimated with standard errors of 89 and 84 per cent, respectively.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Hydrology and trout populations of cold-water rivers of Michigan and Wisconsin |
| Series title | Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters |
| Volume | 62 |
| Year Published | 1974 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters |
| Publisher location | Madison, WI |
| Contributing office(s) | Michigan Water Science Center |
| First page | 181 |
| Last page | 193 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Michigan, Wisconsin |
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