As wildfire regimes shift, resource managers are concerned about potential threats to aquatic ecosystems and the species they support, especially fishes. However, predicting fish responses can be challenging because wildfires affect aquatic ecosystems via multiple pathways. Application of whole-ecosystem approaches, such as food web modeling, can act as heuristic tools that offer…
Authors
David A. Roon, J. Ryan Bellmore, Joseph R. Benjamin, François-Nicolas Robinne, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Jana Compton, Joseph L. Ebersole, Jason B. Dunham, Kevin D. Bladon
This United States Geological Survey news article "Linking fire, food webs, and fish in stream ecosystems" was originally found on https://www.usgs.gov/news
