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Supplemental Information and Data: Integrating metapopulation dynamics into a Bayesian Network Relative Risk Model: Assessing the risk of pesticides to Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in an ecological context
10/05/2020
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/17966
Abstract
The population level is often the biological endpoint addressed in ecological risk assessments (ERAs). However, ERAs tend to ignore the metapopulation structure, which precludes an understanding of how population viability is affected by multiple stressors (e.g., toxicants and environmental conditions) at large spatial scales. Here we integrate metapopulation model simulations into a regional-scale, multiple stressors risk assessment (Bayesian network relative risk model, BN-RRM) of organophosphate (OP) exposure, water temperature, and dissolved oxygen impacts on Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). A matrix metapopulation model was developed for spring Chinook salmon in the Yakima River Basin (YRB), WA, including three locally adapted subpopulations and hatchery fish that interact with those subpopulations. Three metapopulation models (an exponential model, a ceiling density-dependent model, and an exponential model without dispersal) were integrated into the BN-RRM to evaluate the effects of population model assumptions on risk calculations. Risk was defined as the % probability that the abundance of a subpopulation would decline from their initial abundance (500,000). This definition of risk reflects the Puget Sound Partnership’s management goal of achieving “no net loss” of Chinook abundance. BN-RRM model results for projection year 20 showed that risk (in % probability) from OPs and environmental stressors was higher for the wild subpopulations - the American River (50.9-97.7%) and Naches (39.8-84.4%) spring Chinook - than for the hatchery population (CESRF 18.5-46.5%) and the Upper Yakima subpopulation (21.5-68.7%). Metapopulation risk was higher in summer (58.1-68.7%) than in winter (33.6-53.2%), and this seasonal risk pattern was conserved at the subpopulation level. To reach the management goal in the American River spring Chinook subpopulation, the water temperature conditions in the Lower Yakima River would need to decrease. We demonstrate that 1) relative risk can vary across a metapopulation's spatial range, 2) dispersal among patches impacts subpopulation abundance and risk, and 3) local adaptation within a salmon metapopulation can profoundly impact subpopulation responses to equivalent stressors.
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- Title
- Supplemental Information and Data: Integrating metapopulation dynamics into a Bayesian Network Relative Risk Model: Assessing the risk of pesticides to Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in an ecological context
- Creators
- Chelsea Mitchell (Author)
- Academic Unit
- Environment, School of the (CAHNRS); Environment, School of the (CAS)
- Identifiers
- 99900520255501842
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/;http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess;In copyright;openAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dataset