DEVELOPING AN INDEX OF SUSTAINABLE COLDWATER STREAMS USING FISH COMMUNITY ATTRIBUTES IN RIVER PHILIP, NOVA SCOTIA

Chapter 8: Coldwater Fish in Wadeable Streams

Fish fauna of small coldwater streams of North America typically include trout and salmon, sculpins, minnow, sticklebacks, suckers, or lampreys (Hocutt and Wiley 1986). Standard sampling protocols provided herein apply primarily for trout and salmon because of their sport and commercial values (Johnson et al. 2007). As interest in nonsalmonid species grows, further development of sampling metho...

Inductive transfer applied to modeling river discharge in Nova Scotia

Effective watershed management requires accurate modeling of river discharge. Many years of data collection are often required to capture variations in seasonal trends and produce accurate predictive and descriptive models. In this study artificial neural networks that employ inductive transfer are used to develop models that predict the discharge (flow rate) of streams in Nova Scotia from weat...

FINAL An Independent Evaluation of the Nova Scotia Community Based Options Community Residential Service System

Community treatment orders and Nova Scotia--the least restrictive alternative?

CTO/IOC legislation is a bewildering array of presumptions and inconsistencies. It is a reaction to the inherent difficulties of de-institutionalizing treatment into the community and has been based on heated arguments of misconceptions and misunderstandings of various proponents and opponents of CTOs/IOC. Legislators in the United Stated have implemented widely varying legislation over the pas...

Influence of Stream channel morphology and in-stream habitats on fish community in Golestan province Streams

Four streams with different sizes were selected for studying the effects of environmental factors on fish assemblages using indirect (Detrended Correspondence Analysis, DCA) and direct (Redundancy Analysis, RDA) gradient analysis in Golestan province. DCA of presence-absence and relative abundance data showed well gradient and linear model of species variability. In the within-site RDA, environ...