Hydrologic metrics, biological metrics, and R scripts associated with regression analyses used to quantify relations between altered hydrology and biological responses in rivers of Minnesota, 1945-2015
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) conducted a cooperative study to develop linear regression models that quantify relations among 173 hydrologic explanatory metrics in five categories (duration, frequency, magnitude, rate-of-change, and timing) computed from streamgage …