Migratory bottlenecks as integrators of species- and population-level diversity: the Skeena River estuary, its salmon, and industrial development

• Main Authors: Carr-Harris, Charmaine N, Gottesfeld, Allen S., Moore, Jonathan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: PeerJ 2014
• Subjects: Skeena; Skeena River; Sockeye; Stikine; First Nations; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.375v1; https://peerj.com/preprints/375v1.pdf; https://peerj.com/preprints/375v1.xml; https://peerj.com/preprints/375v1.html

We quantify how an estuarine migratory bottleneck supports population- and species- level diversity of salmon. The estuary of the Skeena River is under pressure from industrial development, with two gas liquefaction terminals and a potash loading facility in various stages of environmental review pr...