Results show a preference for bottom or midwater, upper end of pools or lower end. There were distinct fauna associated with bottom and midwater. They swam transects in 2 lakes, parallel to shore, at different distances from shore fig. If flood occurs when eggs are in sediment or nests, can kill yearclass. Usually nails spring-spawners, but there are cases where spring and fall spawners are hit in different years.
Floods wash out exotics, but natives persist.
Abundance of natives rebounds. Sampling was conducted spring, summer, and fall. Statistical analysis indicated that there was no agreement among years in species ranking. But an endemic trout, the cutthroat, was extirpated in late 1800s by introduced rainbows and browns. They sampled for 5 years, includes major flooding events.