ESTABLISHING BASELINE KEY ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF FISH AND

ESTABLISHING BASELINE KEY ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF FISH AND WILDLIFE FOR SUBBASIN PLANNING Project: 27006

Purpose l To give resource managers baseline information on the key ecological functions within their subbasin so as to help guide their activities in prioritizing inventory, monitoring, and mitigation efforts with ecosystem-based management. Need l Subbasin Planning: calls for restoring watershed functions [Grande Ronde Subbasin Summary p. 159] and Columbia River Basin’s Fish and Wildlife Program 2000, Vision Statement [p. 12] and Scientific Foundation and Principles [p. 15], and NMFS 2000 FCRPS Biological Opinion, Actions 105 and 154.

Products • Create 133 Fish and 474 Wildlife Species Range Maps- Historic and Current Distribution • Create 607 Species Functional Profiles • Create Community and Geographical Functional Patterns for each of the 62 subbasins • Create 62 Subbasin Functional Profiles based on all species within each subbasin • Conduct an Assessment of the Key Ecological Functions for each subbasion

Species Distribution Maps

Species Functional Roles or Profiles

Northern River Otter has 12 Key Ecological Functions 1 Trophic relationships 1. 1 heterotrophic consumer 1. 1. 2 secondary consumer (primary predator or primary carnivore) 1. 1. 2. 1 invertebrate eater 1. 1. 2. 1. 1 terrestrial invertebrates 1. 1. 2 aquatic macroinvertebrates 1. 1. 2. 2 vertebrate eater (consumer or predator of herbivorous vertebrates) 1. 1. 2. 2. 1 piscivorous (fish eater) 3 organismal relationships 3. 12 uses burrows dug by other species (secondary burrow user) 3. 13 creates runways (possibly used by other species) 3. 2 controls terrestrial vertebrate populations (through predation or displacement)

Subbasin Profiles

Community Profiles

15 Wildlife Species are Associated with the Bank Habitat Element Dunn's Salamander Van Dyke's Salamander Western Pond Turtle Harlequin Duck Belted Kingfisher Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow American Dipper Northern Waterthrush Pacific Water Shrew American Beaver Water Vole Muskrat Nutria Northern River Otter

Geographic Patterns

Modeling Future Actions