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  • Testing Three Species Distribution Modelling Strategies to Define Fish Assemblage Reference Conditions for Stream Bioassessment and Related Applications

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    Rose, Peter M
    Kennard, Mark J
    Moffatt, David B
    Sheldon, Fran
    Butler, Gavin L
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    Kennard, Mark J.
    Sheldon, Fran
    Rose, Peter
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Species distributionmodels are widely used for stream bioassessment, estimating changes in habitat suitability and identifying conservation priorities.We tested the accuracy of three modelling strategies (single species ensemble, multi-species response and community classification models) to predict fish assemblages at reference stream segments in coastal subtropical Australia.We aimed to evaluate eachmodelling strategy for consistency of predictor variable selection; determine which strategy is most suitable for stream bioassessment using fish indicators; and appraise which strategies bestmatch other streammanagement ...
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    Species distributionmodels are widely used for stream bioassessment, estimating changes in habitat suitability and identifying conservation priorities.We tested the accuracy of three modelling strategies (single species ensemble, multi-species response and community classification models) to predict fish assemblages at reference stream segments in coastal subtropical Australia.We aimed to evaluate eachmodelling strategy for consistency of predictor variable selection; determine which strategy is most suitable for stream bioassessment using fish indicators; and appraise which strategies bestmatch other streammanagement applications. Five models, one single species ensemble, two multi-species response and two community classification models, were calibrated using fish species presence-absence data from 103 reference sites. Models were evaluated for generality and transferability through space and time using four external reference site datasets. Elevation and catchment slope were consistently identified as key correlates of fish assemblage composition among models. The community classification models had high omission error rates and contributed fewer taxa to the ‘expected’ component of the taxonomic completeness (O/E50) index than the other strategies. This potentially decreases the model sensitivity for site impact assessment. The ensemble model accurately and precisely modelled O/E50 for the training data, but produced biased predictions for the external datasets. The multi-species response models afforded relatively high accuracy and precision coupled with low bias across external datasets and had lower taxa omission rates than the community classification models. They inherently included rare, but predictable species while excluding species that were poorly modelled among all strategies. We suggest that themulti-species response modelling strategy ismost suited to bioassessment using freshwater fish assemblages in our study area. At the species level, the ensemble model exhibited high sensitivity without reductions in specificity, relative to the other models. We suggest that this strategy is well suited to other non-bioassessment stream management applications, e.g., identifying priority areas for species conservation.
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    Journal Title
    PLoS One
    Volume
    11
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146728
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 Rose et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
    Subject
    Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/100584
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