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Freshwater systems experience multi-faceted degradation from a variety of ecological and environmental stressors. Three common stressors in these systems, drought, nutrient pollution, and invasive species, have wide-ranging effects on stream population- community- and ecosystem …

Understanding multi-scale population and life history relationships is key to informing management decisions. Abundance and life history relationships can provide insight on a species’ status, population dynamics, recruitment requirements and guide fine scale conservation effort…