Occurrence of sympatric charr groups, Salvelinus , Salmonidae, in the lakes of Kamchatka: a legacy of the last glaciations

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Esin, E. V., Bocharova, E. S., Mugue, N. S., Markevich, G. N.
• Other Authors: Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Okhotsk; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kolyma; Four Lakes; Chukotka; Kamchatka; kolyma river; okhotsk sea; Salvelinus taranetzi; Beringia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13378; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjfb.13378; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jfb.13378

Six postglacial lakes were studied along both sides of the Kamchatka central mountain range, Russia. Pairs of local morphotypes of species of Arctic charrs, Salvelinus spp., have previously been described from the southernmost lakes while the fish fauna of the four northernmost lakes was studied her...