Influence of a Post-dam Sediment Pulse and Post-fire Debris Flows on Steelhead Spawning Gravel in the Carmel River, California

Influence of a Post-dam Sediment Pulse and Post-fire Debris Flows on Steelhead Spawning Gravel in the Carmel River, California

Spawning gravel scarcity is a limiting factor for successful recovery of federally-threatened anadromous fish like steelhead of central California. A BACI-experimental design using bed particle counts from 2013 through 2021 shows that spawning-sized gravel (32–90 mm) diminished downstream of the for...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Douglas P. Smith, Jamie Schnieders, Lauren Marshall, Katherine Melchor, Skylar Wolfe, Devon Campbell, Alyssa French, Joseph Randolph, Mattole Whitaker, Joseph Klein, Cory Steinmetz, Ruby Kwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
spawning gravel
dam removal
debris flow
wildfire
steelhead
Carmel River
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.802825/full

Internet

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.802825/full

Similar Items