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FINAL REPORT Flow-population Models for Tracking Non-stationary Changes in Riparian and Aquatic Ecosystems SERDP Project RC-2511 JANUARY 2020 David Lytle Oregon State University Distribution Statement A Page Intentionally Left Blank This report was prepared under contract to the Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). The publication of this report does not indicate endorsement by the Department of Defense, nor should the contents be construed as reflecting the official policy or position of the Department of Defense. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Department of Defense. 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PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY) 2. REPORT TYPE 3. DATES COVERED (From - To) 01/29/2020 SERDP Final Report 5/12/2015 - 5/12/2020 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER Flow-population Models for Tracking Non-stationary Changes in Riparian 15-C-0009 and Aquatic Ecosystems 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER Dr. David A. Lytle, Oregon State University RC-2511 Dr. Julian D. Olden, University of Washington 5e. TASK NUMBER Dr. David M. Merritt, US Forest Service 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION Oregon State University REPORT NUMBER 3029 Cordley Hall, OSU Zoology RC-2511 Corvallis, OR 97331 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program SERDP 4800 Mark Center Drive, Suite 17D03 Alexandria, VA 22350-3605 11. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S) RC-2511 12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release: distribution unlimited. 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT Climate change is expected to alter temperature and precipitation patterns on military lands throughout the western U.S., and this will alter the timing, frequency, and magnitude of flood and drought events. These changes in streamflow regime will directly affect populations of aquatic organisms (fish, aquatic invertebrates, riparian vegetation) and indirectly affect stream-dependent birds, reptiles, and mammals, including federally threatened and endangered species and other at-risk species. Although climate models as drivers of hydrologic models are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to enable forecasting changes in streamflow regime at small spatial scales (e.g., <144 km2), current species population models do not accommodate the non-stationary effects that shifting flow regimes can exert on population trajectories and viability. Thus, a critical gap remains between our ability to model how climate change will alter streamflow regimes and our ability to predict how these changes will impact management- sensitive aquatic and riparian organisms. The objective of this proposal is to fill this knowledge gap by designing, testing, and implementing flow-population models that integrate nonstationary low regime dynamics with quantitative population models to forecast potential impacts on aquatic and riparian taxa. 15. SUBJECT TERMS Biodiversity, climate change, aquatic ecosystems, population modeling, nonstationarity, flow regime, flow-population modeling, matrix population models, network theory, sensitivity analysis 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 17. LIMITATION OF 18. NUMBER 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON ABSTRACT OF a. REPORT b. ABSTRACT c. THIS PAGE PAGES David Lytle 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (Include area code) 178 UNCLASS UNCLASS UNCLASS UNCLASS 541-737-1068 Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8/98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18 Page Intentionally Left Blank Table of Contents List of tables .................................................................................................................. iii List of figures ................................................................................................................. iv List of acronyms ........................................................................................................... vii Keywords ...................................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................... vii Abstract........................................................................................................................ viii 1 Task 1: Initial site visits with base managers ............................................................ 1 2 Task 2: Develop core flow-population models ......................................................... 2 2.1 Linking river flow regimes to riparian plant guilds: a community-wide modeling approach .................................................................................................................................2 2.1.1 Summary ................................................................................................................2 2.1.2 Introduction ............................................................................................................3 2.1.3 Methods .................................................................................................................4 2.1.4 Results ................................................................................................................. 11 2.1.5 Discussion ............................................................................................................ 16 2.1.6 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................ 20 2.1.7 References ............................................................................................................ 20 2.2 Modeling the effect of drought on fish communities in a changing climate ................ 24 2.2.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 24 2.2.2 Methods ............................................................................................................... 26 2.2.3 Results ................................................................................................................. 33 2.2.4 References ............................................................................................................ 37 2.3 High mortality and enhanced recovery: modeling the countervailing effects of disturbance on insect population dynamics ............................................................................ 41 2.3.1 Summary .............................................................................................................. 41 2.3.2 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 41 2.3.3 Methods ............................................................................................................... 42 2.3.4 Results ................................................................................................................. 48 2.3.5 Discussion ............................................................................................................ 53 2.3.6 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................. 56 2.3.7 References ............................................................................................................ 57 3 Task 3: Obtain data for model parameterization ..................................................... 61 3.1 Base-specific data from managers and from fieldwork .............................................. 61 3.1.1 Camp Pendleton ................................................................................................... 61 3.1.2 Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve ...................................................................... 64 3.1.3 Fort Hunter Liggett ............................................................................................... 68 3.1.4 Los Padres National Forest ................................................................................... 73 3.1.5 Piñon Canyon Manouver Site - Comanche National Grassland ............................. 76 3.2 Vital rate estimation .................................................................................................