Physical habitat modeling methodology and applications
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Ecology, Ecosystem Science, Freshwater Biology, Ecohydrology, Environmental Impacts
- Keywords
- environmental flows, instream habitat, MFL, SEFA, PHABSIM, river flows, modeling, instream flows, ecosystem, Suitability
- Copyright
- © 2019 Nalamothu
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Physical habitat modeling methodology and applications. PeerJ Preprints 7:e28005v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.28005v1
Abstract
The water management districts in Florida are required by s. 373.042, F.S. to establish minimum flow and levels (MFLs) for a priority list of water bodies that is updated each year. These MFLs are established for water bodies to prevent “significant harm” to the water resources or ecology because of withdrawals for beneficial use, and can be an effective water resource management tool. Protection of the resource from significant harm is a benefit to the variety of existing users of the resource as well as the ecological systems supported by the water bodies. This article presents an overview of a modeling technique and an associated tool developed to protect the instream habitat from significant harm.
Author Comment
The water management districts in Florida are required by s. 373.042, F.S. to establish minimum flow and levels (MFLs) for a priority list of water bodies that is updated each year. These MFLs are established for water bodies to prevent “significant harm” to the water resources or ecology because of withdrawals for beneficial use, and can be an effective water resource management tool. Protection of the resource from significant harm is a benefit to the variety of existing users of the resource as well as the ecological systems supported by the water bodies. This article presents an overview of a modeling technique and an associated tool typically used to protect the instream habitat from significant harm.