9360

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9360
• Author: Bundy, J. M. and K. R. Bestgen.
• Title: Evaluation of the Interagency Standardized Monitoring program Sampling Technique in Backwaters of the Colorado River in the Grand Valley, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 2001.
• USFW - Doc Type: Fort. Collins.
• Copyright Material: NO

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ISMP backwater sampling evaluation
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ 111
LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................A
LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................Vii
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 1
STUDY AREA .........................................................................:...............................................3
METHODS ............................................................................................................................. 3
Field sampling ......................................................................................................... 3
Presence/absence and abundance estimation analyses and comparisons ...............5
Fish community and habitat relationships ...............................................................8
RESULTS ............................................................................................................................... 9
1997 sampling ......................................................................................................... 9
1998 sampling ........................................................................................................10
ISMP performance ..................................................................................................12
Fish community and habitat relationships .............................................................17
Species richness relationships ................................................................................L9
Comparisons with historical1SMP data ...............................................................20
DISCUSSION .........................................................................................................................21
ISMP performance ..................................................................................................21
Fish community and habitat relationships .............................................................25
Species richness relationships ................................................................................27
Fish community composition and removal efforts ................................................ 28
Summary ................................................................................................................32
CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................................................34
RECOMMENDATIONS ...........................................................................................................3 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .......................................................................................................... 36
LITERATURE CITED .............................................................................................................37
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