Merced River Instream Flow to Habitat Area Relationship

A dataset containing the Weighted Usable Area (WUA) in square feet per 1000 feet as a function of flow in cubic feet per second

merced_river_instream

Format

dataframe with 30 rows and 6 variables:

flow_cfs

integer flow value in cubic feet per second

FR_spawn_wua

spawning WUA in square feet per 1000 feet

FR_fry_wua

fry (up to 50 mm) WUA in square feet per 1000 feet

FR_juv_wua

juvenile WUA in square feet per 1000 feet

ST_adult_wua

adult steelhead WUA in square feet per 1000 feet

watershed

name of watershed

Source

FWS 1996 and MID 2013

Details

The spawning WUA values were derived from the FWS 1996 PHABSIM model and the rearing from the MID 2013 PHABSIM.

Examples

merced_river_instream
#> # A tibble: 30 x 6
#>    flow_cfs FR_spawn_wua FR_fry_wua FR_juv_wua ST_adult_wua watershed   
#>       <dbl>        <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl>        <dbl> <chr>       
#>  1       75        6842.     27384.     34256.        11412 Merced River
#>  2       90        8540.     26584.     34708.        12076 Merced River
#>  3      105       10067.     25713.     34970.        13261 Merced River
#>  4      120       10941.     24913.     34940.        14388 Merced River
#>  5      135       11830.     24166.     34612.        16085 Merced River
#>  6      150       12348.     23425.     34270.        17466 Merced River
#>  7      165       12655.     22732.     33734.        18544 Merced River
#>  8      188       13070.     21997.     32876.        19427 Merced River
#>  9      225       13070.     20947.     31565.        19985 Merced River
#> 10      275       13129.     19599.     30057.        20428 Merced River
#> # ... with 20 more rows