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Bosque del Apache II Sampling Site

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Delineation of left bank looking 

upstream in the Bosque del Apache 

II sampling site. Photograph by 

Daniel K. Pearson, U.S. Geological 

Survey.

Winter 2011–12

December 6, 2011

Winter 2011–12

February 8, 2012

Summer 2012

June 12, 2012

57,050 square meters

February 8, 2012

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Number of wetted mapped mesohabitats

39

N/O

N/O

28,625 square meters

June 12, 2012

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Number of wetted mapped mesohabitats

76

N/O

56,215 square meters

December 6, 2011

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Number of wetted mapped mesohabitats

55

N/O

N/O

Fish Assemblage Composition and Mapped Mesohabitat Features Over a Range of Streamflows

in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico, Winter 2011–12, Summer 2012

By

Daniel K. Pearson, Christopher L. Braun, and J. Bruce Moring

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ABBREVIATIONS and EXPLANATION

pools

riffles

forewaters

backwaters

flats

isolated pools

channel bar*

point bar*

*Not included in wetted mesohabitat area 

donut graphs or bar graphs showing 

number of wetted mesohabitats mapped

flat

riffle

run

pool

isolated pool

backwater

forewater

embayment

runs

Base from Middle Rio Grande Conservation District,

March–May 2012, 0.5-foot resolution compressed mosaic,

New Mexico State Plane Central Zone,

North American Datum of 1983

Base from Bureau of Reclamation,

February 2012, 1.5-foot resolution compressed mosaic,

New Mexico State Plane Central Zone,

North American Datum of 1983

Base credit in maps for Peña Blanca, Bernalillo, La Orilla,

Barelas, Los Padillas, Los Lunas I, and Los Lunas II (sheets 3 and 4) 

Base credit in maps for Abeytas, La Joya, Rio Salado, Lemitar, Arroyo del Tajo, San Pedro,

Bosque del Apache I, and Bosque del Apache II (sheets 5, 6, and 7)

U.S. Geological Survey sampling

sites short names and map identifier

Peña Blanca, PNB

Bernalillo, BRN

La Orilla, LOR

Barelas, BAR

Los Padillas, PAD

Los Lunas I, LL1

Los Lunas II, LL2

Abeytas, ABY

La Joya, LJY

Rio Salado, RSL

Lemitar, LEM

Arroyo del Tajo, ATJ

San Pedro, SPD

Bosque del Apache I, BA1

Bosque del Apache II, BA2

45,744 square meters**

Wetted mesohabitat area

NOTE: Mesohabitat area donut plots are scaled relative to one another as a function of area.

NOTE: Numbered mesohabitats labeled in yellow correspond to the subset of mesohabitats where Rio Grande silvery minnows were caught.

NOTE: Numbered mesohabitats that are outlined in black on maps correspond to the subset of mesohabitats where physical habitat measurements

 (and water-quality properties were measured in summer 2012) and fish collection was attempted. 

August 11, 2012

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Number of wetted mapped mesohabitats

93

N/O (not observed)

Total number

of wetted 

mesohabitats 

mapped

Date site was mapped

**Total areal extent of wetted

mesohabitat mapped 

Photo identifier and direction facing when

photograph was taken

A

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