DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2435k
title: Data from: Stream fish community dynamics: a critical synthesis

description: Ecologists have long struggled to understand community dynamics. In this
 groundbreaking book, leading fish ecologists William Matthews and Edie
 Marsh-Matthews apply long-term studies of stream fish communities to
 several enduring questions. This critical synthesis reaches to the heart
 of ecological theory, testing concepts against the four decades of data
 the authors have collected from numerous warm-water stream fish
 communities in the central and eastern United States. Stream Fish
 Community Dynamics draws together the work of a single research team to
 provide fresh analyses of the short- and long-term dynamics of numerous
 streams, each with multiple sampling sites. Conducting repeated surveys of
 fish communities at temporal scales from months to decades, the authors’
 research findings will fascinate anyone searching for a deeper
 understanding of community ecology. The study sites covered by this book
 range from small headwater creeks to large prairie rivers in Oklahoma and
 from Ozark and Ouachita mountain streams in Arkansas to the upland Roanoke
 River in Virginia. The book includes• A comparison of all global and local
 communities with respect to community composition at the species and
 family level, emergent community properties, and the relationship between
 those emergent properties and the environments of the study sites•
 Analyses of traits of individual species that are important to their
 distribution or success in harsh environments• A review of evidence for
 the importance of interactions—including competition and predation—in
 community dynamics of stream fishes• An assessment of disturbance effects
 in fish community dynamics• New analysis of the short- and long-term
 dynamics of variation in stream fish communities, illustrating the
 applicability and importance of the "loose equilibrium concept"•
 New analyses and comparisons of spatiotemporal variation in community
 dynamics and beta diversity partitioning• An overview of the effects of
 fish in ecosystems in the central and eastern United States The book ends
 with a summary chapter that places the authors' findings in broader
 contexts and describes how the "loose equilibrium concept"—which
 may be the most appropriate default assumption for dynamics of stream
 fishes in the changing climate of the future—applies to many kinds of
 stream fish communities.
description: Dryad GLOBAL Alum
 18April2016Alum Creek,
 ArkansasDryad GLOBAL Blaylock
 18April2016Blaylock Creek, Ouachita
 Mountains, ArkansasDryad GLOBAL Bread Ck
 18April2016Bread Creek, Ouachita
 Mountains, ArkansasDryad GLOBAL Brier Seine
 1976-2012Brier Creek, Marshall
 County, OklahomaDryad GLOBAL Crooked
 Creek 18April2016Crooked Creek, Ouachita
 Mountains, ArkansasDryad GLOBAL
 Crutcho-KuhlmanCrutcho Creek, Oklahoma
 County, OklahomaDryad GLOBAL Kiamichi
 1981-2014Kiamichi River,
 southeastern OklahomaDryad GLOBAL Piney
 1972-2012Piney Creek, Izard
 County, ArkansasDryad GLOBAL Roanoke
 1978-1979Roanoke River,
 VirginiaDryad LOCAL Ballard
 Creek 1981-2010Ballard Creek, Adair
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Baron Fork
 EldonBaron Fork of Illinois
 River, northeastern OklahomaDryad LOCAL Blue
 RiverBlue River, south
 central OklahomaDryad LOCAL Borrows
 US70Borrow Pits along US70
 south of Broken Bow, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Chigley
 Sandy CreekChigley Sandy Creek,
 Murray County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Choctaw 2
 LocalChoctaw Creek, central
 OklahomaDryad LOCAL Coal Creek
 2005-2014Coal Creek, Ottawa
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Cow Creek
 2005-2014Cow Creek, Ottawa
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Gar Creek 1
 LocalGar Creek, central
 OklahomaDryad LOCAL Garrett
 Creek 2005-2007Garrett Creek, Ottawa
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Glover
 RiverGlover River, McCurtain
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Hauani
 CreekHauani Creek, Marshall
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Hickory
 CreekHickory Creek, Love
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Illinois R
 Lk Frances 2000-2010Illinois River,
 northeast OklahomaDryad LOCAL Little Elm
 Ck 2005-2007Little Elm Creek, Ottawa
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Little
 Glasses CreekLittle Glasses Creek,
 Marshall County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Lukfata
 SloughLukfata Creek slough,
 along Hwy 3, McCurtain County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Morris
 CreekMorris Creek, Leflore
 County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Mustang
 Creek 1 LocalMustang Creek, Mustang,
 OklahomaDryad LOCAL S Canadian
 1976-77South Canadian River
 near Norman, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Salt Fork
 RRSalt Fork of Red River,
 Greer County, OklahomaDryad LOCAL Tyner
 CreekTyner Creek, Adair
 County, Oklahoma