| Title | A Catchment-Scale Assessment of Stream Temperature Response to Contemporary Forest Harvesting in the Oregon Coast Range [dataset] |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Bladon, Kevin, Nicholas Cook, Jeffery Light, and Catalina Segura |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | air temperature, Alsea River Basin, Alsea Watershed Study, Deer Creek, Flynn Creek, human impacts, logging, Needle Creek, terrestrial vegetation, water temperature |
| Notes | The Alsea Watershed Study was a seminal study of the effects of logging on streams and aquatic life, in which the unlogged Flynn Creek was contrasted with patch-cut Deer Creek and clearcut Needle Branch. This early paired-watershed study ran from 1959-1972 and helped shape changes in forest management practices, including unlogged riparian buffer zones around streams. It was followed by the Alsea Watershed Study Revisited, which ran from Oct. 2005 through Sept. 2017. The second study gives managers data showing how changes in forest management practices have affected stream health. “Here we present an analysis of 6 years (3 years pre-harvest and 3 years post-harvest) of summer stream temperature data from a reference (Flynn Creek) and a harvested catchment (Needle Branch). The collected parameters include air temperature, the mean and max, stream temperature, mean and max, and the diel (daily) temperature fluctuations (max minus the minimum temperature)” (from the Abstract). The authors give an alternative title: Alsea Watershed Revisited. Datafiles and metadata are included. |
| URL | https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/datasets/ff365c69j |
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