FishTraits Database

The need for integrated and widely accessible sources of species traits data to facilitate studies of ecology, conservation, and management has motivated development of traits databases for various taxa. In spite of the increasing number of traits-based analyses of freshwater fishes in the United States, no consolidated database of traits of this group exists publicly, and much useful information on these species is documented only in obscure sources. The largely inaccessible and unconsolidated traits information makes large-scale analysis involving many fishes and/or traits particularly challenging. We have compiled a database of >100 traits for 809 (731 native and 78 nonnative) fish species found in freshwaters...

Categories: Data; Tags: Animals, Biological, Biological Data, Biota, Classification, All tags... Conterminous United States, Fish, Freshwater, NFHP Cooperator, NoVisual, Traits, Vertebrates, Fewer tags

Traits and Factors Catalog (TRAFAC): Conifer specialists of North America

These data were compiled in support of the 'Predicting the next high-impact insect invasion: Elucidating traits and factors determining the risk of introduced herbivorous insects on North American native plants' project, supported by the U.S. Geological Survey John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis. The project working group compiled data for non-native insects herbivorous on three or fewer North American conifer families. Data were synthesized from existing resources for a variety of insect traits, traits of their North American conifer host trees, divergence time between the North American host trees and the host tree in the insects' native range, and native insects that feed on the same North American...

Tags: British Columbia, California, Canada, Connecticut, District of Columbia, All tags... Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Jersey, North America, North American conifers, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, biogeography, biota, co-evolved, conifer pests, coniferous forests, conifers, ecology, environmental impact, forest ecosystems, host range, host trees, impact, insect ecology, insect traits, insects, insects, invasive herbivorous insects, native insects, native range, native species, non-native insects, pests, traits, trees, vegetation, Fewer tags

Traits and Factors Catalog (TRAFAC): Hardwood specialists of North America

These data were compiled in support of the 'Predicting the next high-impact insect invasion: Elucidating traits and factors determining the risk of introduced herbivorous insects on North American native plants' project, supported by the U.S. Geological Survey John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis. The project working group compiled data for non-native insects herbivorous on one North American hardwood (i.e., woody angiosperm) family. Data were synthesized from existing resources for a variety of insect traits, traits of their North American hardwood host plants, divergence time between the North American host species and the host species in the insects' native range, and native insects that feed...

Tags: Botany, British Columbia, California, Canada, Connecticut, All tags... District of Columbia, Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Information Sciences, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Jersey, North America, North American hardwoods, North Carolina, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Washington, biogeography, biota, co-evolved, ecology, environmental impact, forest ecosystems, hardwood forests, hardwood pests, hardwoods, host range, host trees, impact, insect ecology, insect traits, insects, insects, invasive herbivorous insects, native insects, native range, native species, non-native insects, pests, traits, trees, vegetation, Fewer tags

Life-history strategies predict fish invasions and extirpations in the Colorado River Basin

Understanding the mechanisms by which nonnative species successfully in vade new regions and the consequences for native fauna is a pressing ecological issue, and one for which niche theory can play an important role. In this paper, we quantify a com prehensive suite of morphological, behavioral, physiological, trophic, and life-history traits for the entire fish species pool in the Colorado River Basin to explore a number of hypotheses regarding linkages between human-induced environmental change, the creation and mod ification of ecological niche opportunities, and subsequent invasion and extirpation of species over the past 150 years. Specifically, we use the fish life-history model of K. O. Winemiller and K....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Ecological Monographs, attributes, endangered fishes, functional diversity, functional niche, All tags... river regulation, traits, trilateral continuum, Fewer tags