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PiSCES: a browser-based system for exploring lotic fish distributions and community estimation
Citation:
Cyterski, M., Michael Galvin, R. Parmar, J. Johnston, L. Prieto, C. Barber, D. Smith, A. Ignatius, AND K. Wolfe. PiSCES: a browser-based system for exploring lotic fish distributions and community estimation. International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2019, Salzburg, AUSTRIA, October 01 - 05, 2019.
Impact/Purpose:
PiSCES can be used for research purposes in support of ecological modeling or provide information to curious citizen-scientists
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-specific occurrence envelopes for a variety of physicochemical stream properties. PiSCES uses web services that were created as part of the application. The application coordinates calls between the user interface and the services. These services can be accessed programmatically or used to build custom applications. The Swagger documentation is used to describe the API. Future development efforts will include assimilation and presentation of coastal survey data (biological, physical, and chemical) from the U.S. National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS). The PiSCES tool is accessible at https://qed.epacdx.net/pisces/