Early View article: “Sensitivity of Thermal Habitat of a Trout Stream to Potential Climate Change, Wisconsin, United States,” by Richard Deitchman and Steven P. Loheide II.
The authors used remotely sensed thermographic profiles and instream temperature histories in validating a one-dimensional stream temperature model that highlights the threat of global climate change to ecologically and economically valuable trout fisheries in southwest Wisconsin. Thermal infrared and instream data may be used in combination to validate a freely available one-dimensional stream temperature model to predict the impacts of climate change on stream temperature. The thermal infrared data can be used to quantify the spatial distribution of base flow, allowing for accurate simulation of thermal refugia under current conditions and more reasonable predictions of future climate change impacts to the thermal regime of the stream.
[Please note: I have quoted and paraphrased freely from the article, but the interpretation is my own.]
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