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distribution of piping plover nesting habitat? <br />B. Program Effects on Piping Plovers (Species Response) <br />1) Do Program changes in land and river flow management affect the number and the <br />distribution of breeding birds. <br />2) Do Program changes in land and river flow management affect the reproductive rate <br />of breeding birds. <br />IV. Pallid Sturgeon <br />A. Program Effects on Pallid Sturgeon Habitat <br />1) How does Program water management affect pallid sturgeon habitat in the lower <br />Platte River? <br />a) What amount of discharge and sediment load in the lower Platte River is <br />derived from the central Platte and other sources? <br />b) How does flow and sediment load control quantity and quality of pallid <br />sturgeon habitat in the lower Platte? <br />(1) What are the habitat characteristics of different life stages of the pallid <br />sturgeon? <br />(2) What are the reproductive habitat characteristics of the pallid <br />sturgeon? <br />B. Program Effects on Pallid Sturgeon <br />1) How does Program water management affect pallid sturgeon in the lower Platte <br />River? <br />a) Does Program water management affect timing and magnitude of flows in the <br />lower Platte? <br />b) Do changes in timing and magnitude of flows occur at times important in the <br />life history of the pallid sturgeon (spawning, fry survival)? <br />C) Do changes in timing and magnitude of flows occur at times that stimulate <br />movement/migration (upstream/downstream behavior of pallid sturgeon? <br />V. Program Effects on "Other Species" Habitat <br />A. Do Program water and land management activities affect non - target state or federal threatened or <br />endangered species? <br />B. Do Program water and land management activities adversely affect non - listed species of concern <br />in the central Platte? <br />W <br />