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Stressor Response Model for the Spotted Sea Trout, Cynoscion nebulosus1
Frank J. Mazzotti, Leonard G. Pearlstine, Tomma Barnes, Stephen A. Bortone, Kevin Chartier, Alicia M. Weinstein, and Donald DeAngelis2Abstract
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The purpose of the C43 Basin Storage Reservoir project is to improve the timing, quantity, and quality of freshwater flows to the Caloosahatchee River estuary. Forecasting models bring together research and monitoring to ecosystems of Southwest Florida and place them into an adaptive management framework for the evaluation of alternative plans. The forecasting models for the C-43 West Reservoir project and the Southwest Florida Feasibility Study consist of a set of stressor response models for individual species. The spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, is an important species as it can serve as a long-term indicator of estuarine conditions because it is one of the few species that spends its entire life within the confines of a single estuarine system. Habitat Suitability Index models were developed with each stressor variable portrayed spatially and temporally across systems of the study area at appropriate scales. The stressor response model for the spotted seatrout describes a response surface of habitat suitability values that vary spatially according to stressor levels throughout the estuary and temporally according to temporal patterns in stressor variables.
Footnotes
1. This document is CIR1523, one of a series of the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date January 2008. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.2. Frank J. Mazzotti, associate professor, FLREC, and Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; Leonard Pearlstine, assistant scientist, UF/FLREC; Tomma Barnes, PBS and J, Metairie, LA; Stephen A. Bortone, marine research scientist and Director of the Marine Laboratory at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Sanibel, FL; Kevin Chartier, GIS programmer, FLREC; Alicia M.Weinstein, wildlife research assistant, FLREC; Donald DeAngelis, landscape ecologist, U.S.G.S, University of Miami.
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