Species |
Site |
Year |
Code |
Habitat |
Model type |
Processes |
Documentation & Funding |
Status |
Smallmouth bass |
Anna River, Virginia |
1993 |
Fortran VII; PHABSIM transects |
2D river |
Individual based, spatially explicit |
Focus on flow effects on nesting, renesting; nest guarding; optimal foraging to select among prey taxa, size classes; bioenergetics; |
Jager et al. 1993; EPRI |
Habitat interface requires update |
Trout |
Tule River, California |
1996 |
Fortran VII; PHABSIM transects |
2D river |
Individual—based, spatially explicit |
Two species plus hatchery; flow effects on drift vs. benthic foraging; bioenergetics; u/g movement rules |
Van Winkle et al 1996; Jager et al. 2003; EPRI / PG&E / SCE |
Mature & complex |
Fall Chinook Salmon |
Tuolumne River, California |
1997 |
Fortran VII; (R 2010) |
1D river, pool/run vs. riffles, temp. simulation; WUA |
Individual-based, spatially explicit |
Superimposition; dewatering redds; size-based competition for growth opportunities; outmigration (no full-lifecycle) |
Jager et al. 1997; Jager and Rose 2003; EPRI / FERC / DOE |
Mature |
Fall Chinook Salmon |
Snake River |
2010 |
C++ |
Reaches |
Age-based PVA |
Hatchery; trap and transport; two juvenile life histories |
Perkins et al. in press; Idaho Power Co. |
Moderate |
White sturgeon |
Snake River, Idaho |
1998-2008 |
C |
River segment; proportional water quality degradation is a function of hydrologic year |
Individual-based PVA |
Linked incubation model (daily, within spawning season) provides output estimates by hydrologic year type to annual PVA. Focus on ‘meta’-population dynamics as influenced by dams, trashracks, passage; population genetics |
Jager et al. 2001-2006 Idaho Power Co. |
Mature |
Pallid sturgeon |
Missouri & Yellowstone Rivers |
2001 |
C |
River segment |
Individual-based PVA |
Hybridization with shovelnose; hatchery inputs |
Report ORNL |
Requires further development |
American badger |
Oklahoma prairie |
2003 |
C++ |
Nested cells, territories |
Individual-based, spatially explicit |
PVA; Effect of petroleum infrastructure on habitat for a territorial mammal (fragmentation) |
Jager, Carr, Efroymson 2005; PERF |
Moderate |
Sage grouse |
Utah |
2006 |
C++ |
Nested cells |
Individual-based, spatially explicit |
Effect of petroleum infrastructure on a social bird, flocking behavior, environmental stochasticity |
Report; BLM-DOE |
Moderate |
Shortnose sturgeon |
Ogeechee River, GA |
2010 |
C++ |
2D unregulated coastal river; temperature, salinity, DO effects |
Individual-based, spatially explicit |
Source-sink dynamics, salinity tolerance, habitat requirements; social behavior, somatic and gonadal growth |
Jager et al. 2013; SERDP |
Moderate |