Ecological Archives E086-050-A2

**Christopher C. Caudill. 2005. Trout predators and demographic sources and sinks in a mayfly metapopulation. Ecology 86:935–946.**

Appendix B (Table B1). A table showing habitat characteristics of the 12 study ponds.

Ponds	Elevation (m)	Mean depth (m)	Max. depth (m)	Flushing rate (d)	Total pond area (m²)	1998 trout density (no./100 m²)	1999 trout density (no./100 m²)	1998 mean temp (ºC)	1998 min. temp (ºC)	1998 max temp (ºC)	1999 mean temp (ºC)	1999 min. temp. (ºC)	1999 max. temp. (ºC)	1999 percentage benthic organic matter (SD)	Bare (m²)	Bare (percentage pond area)	Detritus area (m²)	Detritus (%)	Macrophyte area (m²)	Macrophyte (%)	Sedge area (m²)	Sedge (%)

Avery	3048	0.29	0.61	N.A.	4676	0	0.00	14.5	9.9	20.7	10.0	5.6	14.5	43.8 (30.6%)	3574.5	76.4%	49.2	1.1%	794.8	17.0%	818.6	5.5%
Rustlers	2961	0.44	0.95	0.42	559	0	0.00	13.2	7.2	22.0	5.5	1.4	13.5	19.9 (14.1%)	393.7	70.5%	28.2	5.0%	33.4	6.0%	40.6	18.5%
UBBP	2920	0.46	1.03	0.21	1532	0	0.00	8.7	4.7	13.8	7.0	3.6	11.7	12.8 (5.1%)	1184.9	77.3%	321.7	21.0%	0.0	0.0%	3.9	1.6%
Marmot	2926	0.40	1.52	N.A.	5726	(0.175)	(0.09)	12.7	6.0	17.7	7.8	0.9	16.6	15.7 (9.3%)	4016.9	70.2%	0.0	0.0%	313.6	5.5%	456.2	24.4%
Friends	2999	0.26	0.68	0.20	409	17.9	0.73	14.0	7.9	22.3	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	10.7 (0.6%)	295.6	72.3%	0.0	0.0%	16.7	4.1%	27.9	23.7%
Quigley	2984	0.42	0.82	0.31	484	3.72	1.03	13.6	5.5	24.2	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	23.2 (18.8%)	388.1	80.2%	5.6	1.2%	54.5	11.3%	55.0	7.4%
Levy	2877	0.28	0.58	0.05	254	6.7	1.58	9.9	5.2	17.6	6.1	4.1	10.4	14.7 (4.9%)	113.0	44.7%	9.8	3.9%	118.2	46.7%	118.2	5.1%
Gothic	2926	0.25	0.48	0.20	1182	15.2	2.20	13.7	8.7	18.1	2.5	0.7	7.0	23.8 (12.5%)	961.3	81.3%	0.0	0.0%	94.1	8.0%	94.1	10.7%
Avalanche	2890	0.74	1.67	0.47	683	0	4.10	10.4	5.9	17.7	6.3	4.2	9.8	33.6%	648.6	95.0%	21.2	3.1%	0.0	0.0%	0.0	1.9%
TxFsBr	2923	0.31	0.53	0.76	1180	(7.12)	(4.24)	15.6	8.7	20.9	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	34.7 (7.5%)	1017.8	86.3%	36.1	3.1%	84.4	7.2%	0.0	3.5%
Bellview	3030	0.67	1.80	0.62	773	0	4.53	14.2	9.4	21.2	11.3	5.7	16.0	35.5 (28.9%)	415.7	53.9%	0.0	0.0%	160.6	20.8%	160.6	25.5%
FS 401	3048	0.62	1.42	0.90	991	0	5.75	14.3	9.0	19.7	8.7	4.7	12.4	14 (7.4%)	893.8	90.2%	0.0	0.0%	28.0	2.8%	31.2	7.0%
Mean:	2961	0.4	1.0	0.4	1537			12.9	7.3	19.7	7.2	3.4	12.4	23.6 (16.4%)	1158.7	74.9%	39.3	3.2%	141.5	10.8%	150.5	11.2%

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