A national compendium of freshwater fish and water temperature data. Volume II: Temperature requirement data for thirty fishes
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Hokanson, Kenneth E.F.Date
1990
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A national compendium of freshwater fish and water temperature data. Volume II: Field validation of freshwater fish temperature requirementsAbstract
Compilation of the temperature requirements of freshwater fishes began as part of our field validation research activity. My literature search covered the basic data used in development of temperature criteria for freshwater aquatic life (NAS/NAE 1973; U.S. EPA 1976; Brungs and Jones 1977) up through 1978. In the first 30 tables, I summarize the lethal temperatures, lower and upper zero net growth and optimum temperature values, final preferendum and avoidance temperatures, lower and upper embryo tolerance limits, lowest and highest spawning temperatures and earliest and latest spawning times for thirty fish species. Pertinent test conditions are listed for each experiment. Responses are described by footnotes to Tables 1-30. References are cited for each stated value. Variation in the measured thermal response values is given for each species that has 2 or more measurements. Variation of 2-5°C or more is common among species and thermal responses. Tables 32-42 summarize the basic response data among thirty species for use in subsequent synthesis reports.Pages
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research LaboratoryCollections