Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU

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Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU: USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research titled "Investigating Potential Climate Change Impacts on the Upper Colorado River Fish Fauna; An Aquatic Ecology Investigation to Support the Sothern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative" Research Objectives include: - Investigate the current and projected impacts of climate change on the ichthyofauna of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) - Examine historic and current spatial patterns and occurrence of native and non-native fishes relative to thermal regimes in UCRB streams - Model thermal resources in main rivers of the UCRB to gain understanding of preferred thermal requirements - Describe current and future fish distribution in the UCRB under a variety of climate change scenarios - Determine zones of overlap for native and nonnative fishes - Provide land managers with information that will help protect fish communities in the UCRB