Trophic ecology of nonanadromous rainbow trout in a post-glacial lake system: partial convergence of adfluvial and fluvial forms

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Arostegui, M.C., Quinn, T.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Glacial Lake; Sockeye; Varden; Salvelinus alpinus; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0201; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjz-2017-0201; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjz-2017-0201

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)) is one of many salmonid species exhibiting a gradient of life histories including fluvial (stream-resident), anadromous (ocean-migrant), and adfluvial (lake-migrant) forms, the last of which is less extensively studied than the other two. Our g...