Transferability of Monitoring Data from Neighboring Streams in a Physical Habitat Simulation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Monitoring Data
2.3. Habitat Suitability Curves
2.4. Improved Generalized Habitat Suitability Curves
2.5. Hydraulic Simulation
2.6. Method of Comparing Data and Results
3. Results and Discussions
3.1. Data Variability between Target and Source Streams
Streams | Number of Datasets | basin Area (km2) | Length (km) | Average Width (km) | Shape Factor | Mean Elevation (EL.m) | Mean Slope | Mean Diameter of Substrate (mm) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dal River | 468 | 682.41 | 82.8 | 8.30 | 0.10 | 381.00 | 1/650 | 102.3–165.9 |
Hongcheon River | 138 | 1566.2 | 140.2 | 11.17 | 0.08 | 423.00 | 1/550 | 35.1–148.0 |
Geum River | 291 | 9912.15 | 397.8 | 24.92 | 0.063 | 217.03 | 1/2500 | 0.0097–1.70 |
Chogang Stream | 689 | 665.2 | 66.3 | 10.03 | 0.15 | 289.00 | 1/770 | 46.8–111.8 |
3.2. Habitat Use Characteristics of Freshwater Minnow and Constructed HSCs
3.3. Transferability of HSCs and Validation of Improved GHSCs
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Chicago/Turabian StyleChoi, Byungwoong, Sung-Uk Choi, and Hojeong Kang. 2015. "Transferability of Monitoring Data from Neighboring Streams in a Physical Habitat Simulation" Water 7, no. 8: 4537-4551. https://doi.org/10.3390/w7084537