Craig D. Snyder

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored land use, fish assemblage structure, and stream habitat associations in 20 catchments in Opequon Creek watershed, West Virginia, to determine the relative importance of urban and agriculture land use on stream biotic integrity, and evaluate the spatial scale at which land use effects were most pronounced.

TL;DR: It is suggested that hemlock decline may result in long-term changes in headwater ecosystems leading to reductions in both within-stream and park-wide benthic community diversity.

TL;DR: Air-water temperature regression models can provide a powerful and cost-effective approach for predicting future stream temperatures while accounting for effects of groundwater and Habitat fragmentation due to thermal barriers may have an increasingly important role for trout population viability in headwater streams.

TL;DR: Functional (trophic) diversity of fishes in hemlock and second-order streams was numerically greater than that of hardwood and first- order streams, and species composition also differed by stream order and terrain type.

TL;DR: This study uses multi-year temperature records from 120 stream sites located across 18 mountain watersheds of Shenandoah National Park and a coastal watershed in Massachusetts to develop paired air and stream water annual temperature signal analysis techniques to elucidate the relative groundwater contribution to stream water and the effective groundwater flowpath depth.