Final Report: Data provision and projected impact of climate change on fish biodiversity within the Desert LCC
Abstract
The four primary objectives of this project were to: (1) compile a dataset of fish occurrence records for the entirety of the Rio Grande drainage in the US and Mexico; (2) improve that dataset by reformatting dates, synonymizing species names to a modern taxonomy, georeferencing localities, and flagging geographic outliers; (3) for those species with sufficient data for modeling, create species distribution models (SDMs); (4) use the environmental conditions determined via those models to project the species distributions into the future under two climate scenarios. To accomplish those objectives, we compiled 495,101 fish occurrence records mined from 122 original sources into a single database. We then, on the basis of text string searches of the original sources' verbatim locality fields, extracted 145,426 records that we judged to have a reasonable likelihood of being from the Rio Grande drainage. For those records we edited taxonomy, reformatted dates, and finally georeferenced 59,156 (41%) records, which proved sufficient for constructing SDMs for 36 species that met a priori quality assurance criteria. We provide basic interpretation of these models and discuss projections of them into several different future climate forecasts. Products include raw model outputs and symbolized maps helpful in interpretation and comparison, as well as raw data sets and recommendations regarding how all of these product might be used in future management and research efforts.
Department
Subject
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
United States
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas
Cuatro Ciénegas
Mexico
Rio Grande
Pecos River
Rio Bravo
Rio Conchos
Rio Salado
Rio Salinas
Rio San Juan
Endangered Fish
Threatened Fish
Freshwater Fish
Museum Occurrence Records
Species Distribution Models
Climate Change
Astyanax mexicanus
Notropis braytoni
Macrhybopsis aestivalis
Notropis jemezanus
Rhinichthys cataractae
Cyprinus carpio
Notropis amabilis
Lepomis auritus
Cyprinodon pecosensis
Gambusia speciosa
Gambusia senilis
Moxostoma austrinum
Cyprinodon eximius
Ictiobus bubalus
Gila pandora
Morone chrysops
Dionda diaboli
Catostomus plebeius
Hybognathus amarus
Platygobio gracilis
Gambusia nobilis
Hybognathus placitus
Micropterus dolomieu
Anguilla rostrata
Atractosteus spatula
Awaous banana
Ctenogobius claytonii
Cyprinella lutrensis blairi
Cyprinodon bovinus
Cyprinodon elegans
Etheostoma lepidum
Gambusia clarkhubbsi
Gambusia gaigei
Hypostomus sp.
Ictalurus sp.
Morone saxatilis
Notropis orca
Dionda episcopa
Moxostoma congestum
Cycleptus elongatus
Notropis chihuahua
Ictalurus furcatus
Cyprinella proserpina
Oreochromis aureus
Ictalurus lupus
Etheostoma grahami
Lepisosteus osseus
Lucania parva
Moxostoma albidum
Dionda argentosa
Morone saxatilis
Notropis orca
Notropis simus pecosensis
Notropis simus simus
Oncorhynchus clarki virginialis
Percina macrolepida
Phenacobius mirabilis
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
Semotilus atromaculatus
Maxent
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
DLCC
historic fish occurrence
Fishes of Texas
Texas Natural History Collection
Global Biodiversity information Facility
Fishnet2
Fishbase
GPLCC
Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative
University of Michigan Icthyology Collection
New Mexico Biodiversity collections consortium
University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Climate change projections
Fish conservation
Aquatic resource management
Mexican tetra
Tamaulipas shiner
Speckled chub
Rio Grande shiner
Longnose dace
Common carp
Texas shiner
Roundnose minnow
Gray red horse
Blue sucker
Chihuahua shiner
Blue catfish
Proserpine shiner
Blue tilapia
Headwater catfish
Rio Grande darter
Longnose gar
Rainwater killifish
Longlip jumprock
Manantial roundnose minnow
Redbreast sunfish
Pecos pupfish
Tex-Mex gambusia
Blotched gambusia
Mexican redhorse
Conchos pupfish
Smallmouth buffalo
Rio Grande chub
White bass
Devils river minnow
Rio Grande sucker
Rio Grande silvery minnow
Flathead chub
Pecos gambusia
Plains minnow
Smallmouth bass
American eel
Alligator gar
River goby
Mexican goby
Maravillas red shiner
Leon Springs pupfish
Comanche Springs pupfish
Green throat darter
San Felipe gambusia
Big Bend gambusia
Armored catfish
Chihuahua catfish
Striped bass
Phantom shiner
Pecos bluntnose shiner
Bluntnose shiner
Rio Grande cutthroat
Bigscale logperch
Suckermouth minnow
Shovelnose sturgeon
Creek chub
New Mexico
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
United States
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas
Cuatro Ciénegas
Mexico
Rio Grande
Pecos River
Rio Bravo
Rio Conchos
Rio Salado
Rio Salinas
Rio San Juan
Endangered Fish
Threatened Fish
Freshwater Fish
Museum Occurrence Records
Species Distribution Models
Climate Change
Astyanax mexicanus
Notropis braytoni
Macrhybopsis aestivalis
Notropis jemezanus
Rhinichthys cataractae
Cyprinus carpio
Notropis amabilis
Lepomis auritus
Cyprinodon pecosensis
Gambusia speciosa
Gambusia senilis
Moxostoma austrinum
Cyprinodon eximius
Ictiobus bubalus
Gila pandora
Morone chrysops
Dionda diaboli
Catostomus plebeius
Hybognathus amarus
Platygobio gracilis
Gambusia nobilis
Hybognathus placitus
Micropterus dolomieu
Anguilla rostrata
Atractosteus spatula
Awaous banana
Ctenogobius claytonii
Cyprinella lutrensis blairi
Cyprinodon bovinus
Cyprinodon elegans
Etheostoma lepidum
Gambusia clarkhubbsi
Gambusia gaigei
Hypostomus sp.
Ictalurus sp.
Morone saxatilis
Notropis orca
Dionda episcopa
Moxostoma congestum
Cycleptus elongatus
Notropis chihuahua
Ictalurus furcatus
Cyprinella proserpina
Oreochromis aureus
Ictalurus lupus
Etheostoma grahami
Lepisosteus osseus
Lucania parva
Moxostoma albidum
Dionda argentosa
Morone saxatilis
Notropis orca
Notropis simus pecosensis
Notropis simus simus
Oncorhynchus clarki virginialis
Percina macrolepida
Phenacobius mirabilis
Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
Semotilus atromaculatus
Maxent
Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
DLCC
historic fish occurrence
Fishes of Texas
Texas Natural History Collection
Global Biodiversity information Facility
Fishnet2
Fishbase
GPLCC
Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative
University of Michigan Icthyology Collection
New Mexico Biodiversity collections consortium
University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Climate change projections
Fish conservation
Aquatic resource management
Mexican tetra
Tamaulipas shiner
Speckled chub
Rio Grande shiner
Longnose dace
Common carp
Texas shiner
Roundnose minnow
Gray red horse
Blue sucker
Chihuahua shiner
Blue catfish
Proserpine shiner
Blue tilapia
Headwater catfish
Rio Grande darter
Longnose gar
Rainwater killifish
Longlip jumprock
Manantial roundnose minnow
Redbreast sunfish
Pecos pupfish
Tex-Mex gambusia
Blotched gambusia
Mexican redhorse
Conchos pupfish
Smallmouth buffalo
Rio Grande chub
White bass
Devils river minnow
Rio Grande sucker
Rio Grande silvery minnow
Flathead chub
Pecos gambusia
Plains minnow
Smallmouth bass
American eel
Alligator gar
River goby
Mexican goby
Maravillas red shiner
Leon Springs pupfish
Comanche Springs pupfish
Green throat darter
San Felipe gambusia
Big Bend gambusia
Armored catfish
Chihuahua catfish
Striped bass
Phantom shiner
Pecos bluntnose shiner
Bluntnose shiner
Rio Grande cutthroat
Bigscale logperch
Suckermouth minnow
Shovelnose sturgeon
Creek chub
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