Instream flows: New tools to quantify water quality conditions for returning adult Chinook salmon

摘要: AbstractThis paper examines the effect of implementing a water transaction program to address potential quality limitations for returning adult fall-run Chinook salmon in stream system where agriculture is dominant land and use. Water transactions are becoming an increasingly used approach provide instream flows during periods when there competing uses. often achieve ecological objectives, but their or biological effects rarely quantified. The implemented Shasta River were evaluated by using spreadsheet model quantify changes dissolved oxygen conditions as they relate discharge, pool volumes, holding habitat capacity, demand fish. results indicate that may mitigate impairments decreasing residence time habitat, particularly effective ar...