Predicting, Measuring, and Monitoring Aquatic Invertebrate Biodiversity on Dryland Military Bases

Abstract

Aquatic habitats are among the most imperiled habitats on dryland military installations, yet they harbor a disproportionately high amount of biodiversity given the small land area they cover. Aquatic invertebrates (insects and allied taxa) constitute a major part of this biodiversity and form a critical part of the food web that sustains aquatic, riparian, and terrestrial organisms, including Federally Threatened or Endangered species. Biodiversity in dryland aquatic habitats is strongly influenced by spatial and temporal variability, which presents challenges for predicting how management decisions on military lands could affect landscape-scale patterns of aquatic invertebrate biodiversity. This project integrates mathematical modeling, invertebrate sampling, and statistical estimation to understand and measure biodiversity of aquatic invertebrates on dryland military bases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 2016
Accession Number
AD1033718

Entities

People

  • David A. Lytle
  • Julian D. Olden
  • Rachata Muneepeerakul

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Droughts
  • Environmental Protection
  • Fish
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Habitats
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lepidoptera
  • Medical Personnel
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Surveys
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.