Bighead Carp Invasion Model Data: River Temperatures in Ontario Under Climate Change

Empirical and projected daily water and air temperature series for five rivers in Ontario, Canada. The data supports a model examining the invasion potential of Bighead Carp under a climate change scenario. It was created by Dean, Erik K and deposited to Borealis Harvested Dataverse in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling fish population recruitment bottlenecks based on seasonal water temperature data.
• Projecting invasive species range shifts based on climate model ensemble air temperature projections.
• Validating and converting climate projections to water temperatures for ecological simulations.

Strengths

• Includes empirical data for a baseline time period for five specific rivers.
• Contains projected data under the SSP5-8.5 scenario for a long-term future period (2015–2100).
• Accompanied by code for data processing, validation, and model execution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Empirical measurements and projections from an ensemble of general circulation models.

Time Range

Baseline period and projections from 2015 to 2100.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 04:12:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nipigon, St. Louis, Genesee, Vermillion, and Thames rivers in Ontario, Canada.