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    • Fish Community and Associated Habitat Data From the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2001-2023 - Data Package

    Metadata Updated: December 29, 2025

    This monitoring dataset consists of fish community data for Buffalo National River, Ozark National Scenic Riverways and multiple prairie stream park units throughout the Midwest. The dataset includes fish species counts, site conditions, water quality and habitat measures, and stream discharge data for fish communities in Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks. The dataset includes approximately 115,000 individual observations covering over 130 fish species observed at 11 NPS park units taken between 2001 and 2023. The overall goals of Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network fish community program are to monitor temporal changes in fish communities and relations between the fish communities and environmental factors. This monitoring information can be used by park managers to evaluate the effects of past and future activities and management decisions (either by park managers or others) on fish communities. The specific objectives for fish community monitoring are (1) to determine the status and trends in river, springs and small-stream fish communities by quantifying metrics (e.g. species richness, percent tolerant individuals, percent invertivores, and percent omnivores) that can be used to calculate multi-metric indices and (2) to estimate the spatial and temporal variability of fish community metric values and indices among collection sites, and relations between metrics and indices with various environmental variables (e.g. stream size, riparian characteristics, substrate characteristics, water quality, discharge, and land use).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date December 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI NPS DCAT-US

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date December 29, 2025
    Publisher National Park Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/nps-datastore-2303237
    Data First Published 2024-04-10T00:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2024-04-10T00:00:00Z
    Category Data Package
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:24
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://ddi.doi.gov/nps-data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 6bca43af-6a1c-4bd9-a32d-65ddb0e1769e
    Harvest Source Id d917c1a9-26b7-43ea-b8c5-c77ec750a850
    Harvest Source Title DOI NPS DCAT-US
    Homepage URL https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2303237
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 010:119, 010:118
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 677bf4191facf5647b8bd715b53e5a9fdabb6437858f867329a01e67e8d08de7
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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