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Fish communities in PA and MD Piedmont mixed agricultural streams, 2023

Dates

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2023-06-02
End Date
2023-06-27

Citation

Buckwalter, J.D., Angermeier, P.L., Frimpong, E.A., and Noe, G.B., 2024, Fish communities in PA and MD Piedmont mixed agricultural streams, 2023: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P14QXDHI.

Summary

From 2-27 June, 2023, a Virginia Tech team of 5 sampled the fish community in 30 Piedmont streams (lower Susquehanna River and upper Chesapeake Bay tributaries, Pennsylvania and Maryland, USA) spanning a gradient of agricultural intensity as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, and macroinvertebrates at the same 30 streams. Upstream drainage area of these 30 streams ranged from approximately 10 to 50 sq. km, and width from 2 to 10 m. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches using two-pass backpack electrofishing and seining. Reach A was the main reach surveyed by all the interdisciplinary teams; Reach B was surveyed for fish communities only. [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Paul L Angermeier
Originator :
Joseph D Buckwalter, Paul L Angermeier, Emmanuel A Frimpong, Gregory B Noe
Metadata Contact :
Joseph D Buckwalter
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

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PaMd fish metadata.xml
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View 		16.38 KB application/fgdc+xml
1_DataDictionary.csv 11.81 KB text/csv
2_ReachInfo.csv 9.75 KB text/csv
3_EfisherInfo.csv 6.8 KB text/csv
4_FishCatch.csv 157.64 KB text/csv

Purpose

These fish community data were collected as part of a larger interdisciplinary field campaign (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/62fea68ed34e3a4442876167) to evaluate the effect of agricultural land use and conservation practices on holistic stream health in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

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