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PiSCES: a browser-based information system for exploring lotic fish distributions and community estimation
Citation:
Cyterski, Mike, M. Galvin, R. Parmar, JohnM Johnston, L. Prieto, Craig Barber, D. Smith, A. Ignatius, AND K. Wolfe. PiSCES: a browser-based information system for exploring lotic fish distributions and community estimation. 2018 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, August 19 - 23, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
Presented at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting.
Description:
The Piscine Stream Community Estimation System (PiSCES) provides users with a plausible fish community for any stream reach in the conterminous United States. The web application uses information from Nature Serve, the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America for over 1,000 native and non-native freshwater fish species. PiSCES can filter potential fish assemblages based on species rarity and/or genera-specific occurrence envelopes for a variety of physicochemical stream properties; create a community abundance/biomass distribution by relating relative abundance to mean body weight of each species; and allow users to query its database to see ancillary characteristics of each species (e.g., habitat preferences and maximum size). Future efforts will aim to improve the accuracy of the species distribution database. The PiSCES tool is accessible at qed.epa.gov/pisces/
