Predictability of multispecies competitive interactions in three populations of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar

Juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from three allopatric populations ( LaHave , Sebago and Saint‐Jean) were placed into artificial streams with combinations of four non‐native salmonids: brown trout Salmo trutta , rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss , Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha and coho...

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Published in:Journal of Fish Biology
Main Authors: Houde, A. L. S., Wilson, C. C., Neff, B. D.
Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Strategic Project Grant, Ontario Government, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters, Metro East Anglers
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015
Subjects:
Aquatic Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12644
https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjfb.12644
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jfb.12644
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Summary:Juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from three allopatric populations ( LaHave , Sebago and Saint‐Jean) were placed into artificial streams with combinations of four non‐native salmonids: brown trout Salmo trutta , rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss , Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha and coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch . Non‐additive effects, as evidenced by lower performance than predicted from weighted summed two‐species competition trials, were detected for S. salar fork length ( L F ) and mass, but not for survival, condition factor or riffle use. These data support emerging theory on niche overlap and species richness as factors that can lead to non‐additive competition effects.

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