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Coupled Downscaled Climate Models and Ecophysiological Metrics Forecast Habitat Compression for an Endangered Estuarine Fish by Brown, Larry R, Komoroske, Lisa M, Wagner, R Wayne, Morgan-King, Tara, May, Jason T, Connon, Richard E, Fangue, Nann A

“…Climate change is driving rapid changes in environmental conditions and affecting population and species' persistence across spatial and temporal scales…”
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Stream macroinvertebrate response models for bioassessment metrics: addressing the issue of spatial scale by Waite, Ian R, Kennen, Jonathan G, May, Jason T, Brown, Larry R, Cuffney, Thomas F, Jones, Kimberly A, Orlando, James L

“…We developed independent predictive disturbance models for a full regional data set and four individual ecoregions (Full Region vs. Individual Ecoregion…”
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Associations of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages with Environmental Variables in the Upper Clear Creek Watershed, California by Brown, Larry R., May, Jason T., Wulff, Marissa

“…Benthic macroinvertebrates are integral components of stream ecosystems and are often used to assess the ecological integrity of streams. We sampled streams in…”
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Responses of benthic macroinvertebrates to environmental changes associated with urbanization in nine metropolitan areas by Cuffney, Thomas F, Brightbill, Robin A, May, Jason T, Waite, Ian R

“…Responses of benthic macroinvertebrates along gradients of urban intensity were investigated in nine metropolitan areas across the United States. Invertebrate…”
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Patterns and magnitude of flow alteration in California, USA by Zimmerman, Julie K. H., Carlisle, Daren M., May, Jason T., Klausmeyer, Kirk R., Grantham, Theodore E., Brown, Larry R., Howard, Jeanette K.

“…Quantifying the natural flow regime is essential for management of water resources and conservation of aquatic ecosystems. Understanding the degree to which…”
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Tools for managing hydrologic alteration on a regional scale: Setting targets to protect stream health by Mazor, Raphael D., May, Jason T., Sengupta, Ashmita, McCune, Kenneth S., Bledsoe, Brian P., Stein, Eric D.

“…Widespread hydrologic alteration creates a need for tools to assess ecological impacts to streams that can be applied across large geographic scales. A…”
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Evaluating the adequacy of a reference-site pool for ecological assessments in environmentally complex regions by Ode, Peter R., Rehn, Andrew C., Mazor, Raphael D., Schiff, Kenneth C., Stein, Eric D., May, Jason T., Brown, Larry R., Herbst, David B., Gillett, David, Lunde, Kevin, Hawkins, Charles P.

“…Many advances in the field of bioassessment have focused on approaches for objectively selecting the pool of reference sites used to establish expectations for…”
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Predicting biological condition in southern California streams by Brown, Larry R., May, Jason T., Rehn, Andrew C., Ode, Peter R., Waite, Ian R., Kennen, Jonathan G.

“…► We developed a boosted regression tree model for predicting stream biological condition at unsampled sites. ► The two most important variables were…”
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Urban streams across the USA: lessons learned from studies in 9 metropolitan areas by Brown, Larry R, Cuffney, Thomas F, Coles, James F, Fitzpatrick, Faith, McMahon, Gerard, Steuer, Jeffrey, Bell, Amanda H, May, Jason T

“…Studies of the effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems have usually focused on single metropolitan areas. Synthesis of the results of such studies have…”
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Comparison of watershed disturbance predictive models for stream benthic macroinvertebrates for three distinct ecoregions in western US by Waite, Ian R., Brown, Larry R., Kennen, Jonathan G., May, Jason T., Cuffney, Thomas F., Orlando, James L., Jones, Kimberly A.

“…The successful use of macroinvertebrates as indicators of stream condition in bioassessments has led to heightened interest throughout the scientific community…”
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Correspondence of biological condition models of California streams at statewide and regional scales by May, Jason T, Brown, Larry R, Rehn, Andrew C, Waite, Ian R, Ode, Peter R, Mazor, Raphael D, Schiff, Kenneth C

“…We used boosted regression trees (BRT) to model stream biological condition as measured by benthic macroinvertebrate taxonomic completeness, the ratio of…”
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Comparison of Stream Invertebrate Response Models for Bioassessment Metrics by Waite, Ian R., Kennen, Jonathan G., May, Jason T., Brown, Larry R., Cuffney, Thomas F., Jones, Kimberly A., Orlando, James L.

“…We aggregated invertebrate data from various sources to assemble data for modeling in two ecoregions in Oregon and one in California. Our goal was to compare…”
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Response to King and Baker: limitations on threshold detection and characterization of community thresholds by Cuffney, Thomas F., Qian, Song S., Brightbill, Robin A., May, Jason T., Waite, Ian R.

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Temporal changes in aquatic-invertebrate and fish assemblages in streams of the north-central and northeastern US by Kennen, Jonathan G., Sullivan, Daniel J., May, Jason T., Bell, Amanda H., Beaulieu, Karen M., Rice, Donald E.

“…Many management agencies seek to evaluate temporal changes in aquatic assemblages at monitoring sites, but few have sites with ecological time series that are…”
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A quantitative tool for assessing the integrity of southern coastal California streams by Ode, Peter R, Rehn, Andrew C, May, Jason T

“…We developed a benthic macro-invertebrate index of biological integrity (B-IBI) for the semi-arid and populous southern California coastal region. Potential…”
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Relation of urbanization to stream fish assemblages and species traits in nine metropolitan areas of the United States by Brown, Larry R, Gregory, M. Brian, May, Jason T

“…We examined associations of fish assemblages and fish traits with urbanization and selected environmental variables in nine major United States metropolitan…”
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AQUATIC VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES OF THE UPPER CLEAR CREEK WATERSHED, CALIFORNIA by Brown, Larry R., May, Jason T.

“…We sampled streams in the Upper Clear Creek Watershed in northwestern California in fall 2004 and fall 2005 to document assemblages of aquatic vertebrates and…”
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Fish communities of the Sacramento River Basin: implications for conservation of native fishes in the Central Valley, California by MAY, Jason T, BROWN, Larry R

“…The associations of resident fish communities with environmental variables and stream condition were evaluated at representative sites within the Sacramento…”
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Variation in Spring Nearshore Resident Fish Species Composition and Life Histories in the Lower San Joaquin Watershed and Delta by Brown, Larry R., May, Jason T.

“…Providing freshwater to human populations while protecting or rehabilitating ecosystem health is a significant challenge to. water resource managers and…”
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Macroinvertebrate assemblages on woody debris and their relations with environmental variables in the Lower Sacramento and San Joaquin River drainages, California by BROWN, L. R, MAY, J. T

“…Data from 25 sites were used to evaluate associations between macroinvertebrate assemblages on large woody debris (snags) and environmental variables in the…”
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