This readme file describes the data associated with the journal article entitled “Accounting for
groundwater in stream fish thermal habitat responses to climate change” published in the journal,
Ecological Applications.
The data is contained in a single Microsoft Excel file entitled “SnyderEtal_Data”. The file
contains two individual worksheets: “SiteData” and “TemperatureData”.
The “SiteData” worksheet describes the names and locations of sites where temperature data
were collected. There are a total of 78 sites located on nine individual streams within
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. The worksheet consists of four fields (columns) described
below:
Field Name
Description
Site Number
The number (arbitrary) assigned to individual stream reaches where
temperature data was collected
Stream name
The name of the stream associated with each individual site number
Longitude
Longitude in decimal degrees of site location
Latitude
Latitude in decimal degrees of site location
The “TemperatureData” worksheet contains daily mean air and water temperature data that
forms the basis of primary inferences described in the article. The worksheet consists of five
fields (columns) described below:
Field Name
Site Number
Description
The number (arbitrary) assigned to individual stream reaches where
temperature data was collected.
Date
Sampling date for individual temperature measurements or predictions
AirTemp_observed
Air temperature in degrees Celsius observed for each site on each sampling
date. Note, air temperature measurements were only collected at 27 of the
78 sites.
AirTemp_Predicted Air temperature in degrees Celsius predicted for each site on each
sampling date using multiple linear regression (see journal article for
details). Air temperatures were predicted for all 78 sites.
WaterTemp
Water temperature in degrees Celsius observed for each site on each
sampling date. Water temperature measurements were collected for all 78
sites.