Accurate spatiotemporal predictions of daily stream temperature from statistical models accounting for interactions between climate and landscape.

ABSTRACT: Spatial and temporal patterns in stream temperature are primary factors determining species composition, diversity and productivity in stream ecosystems. The availability of spatially and temporally continuous estimates of stream temperature would improve the ability of biologists to fully explore the effects of stream temperature on biota. Most statistical stream temperature modeling techniques are limited in their ability to account for the influence of variables changing across spatial and temporal gradients. We identified and described important interactions between climate and spatial variables that approximate mechanistic controls on spatiotemporal patterns in stream temperature. With identified relationships we formed models to generate reach-scale basin-wide spatially and temporall

SUBMITTER: Siegel JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6857678 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature