Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are anadromous fish distributed around the Pacific Ocean. Pacific salmon generate numerous ecosystem services related to the nutrition, livelihoods and culture of humans. Widespread declines in this vital resource over the past century and specifically the last few...
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ftcarletonuniv:oai:curve.carleton.ca:35474 2023-05-15T18:44:10+02:00 Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Sebes, James Carleton Coll 2020 https://curve.carleton.ca/1aae15e0-b587-4b50-8fcd-4376d53df423 https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2020-13966 unknown https://curve.carleton.ca/1aae15e0-b587-4b50-8fcd-4376d53df423 https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2020-13966 Thesis/Dissertation 2020 ftcarletonuniv https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2020-13966 2022-01-23T08:07:19Z Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are anadromous fish distributed around the Pacific Ocean. Pacific salmon generate numerous ecosystem services related to the nutrition, livelihoods and culture of humans. Widespread declines in this vital resource over the past century and specifically the last few decades have prompted efforts to identify the drivers of and remedy Pacific salmon decline. I used quasi-Poisson Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) to quantify the influence of multiple environmental and anthropogenic factors on the run size of Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) that spawn upstream of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The main predictor of population variation was sea surface temperature, discernable during both marine entry and exit. Whitehorse Chinook Salmon are a small, edge population and my findings suggest that they may experience exacerbated effects of future perturbations to North Pacific and global climate compared to other populations of the same species. Thesis Whitehorse Yukon river Yukon CURVE - Carleton University Research Virtual Environment Yukon Canada Pacific |
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Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are anadromous fish distributed around the Pacific Ocean. Pacific salmon generate numerous ecosystem services related to the nutrition, livelihoods and culture of humans. Widespread declines in this vital resource over the past century and specifically the last few decades have prompted efforts to identify the drivers of and remedy Pacific salmon decline. I used quasi-Poisson Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) to quantify the influence of multiple environmental and anthropogenic factors on the run size of Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) that spawn upstream of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The main predictor of population variation was sea surface temperature, discernable during both marine entry and exit. Whitehorse Chinook Salmon are a small, edge population and my findings suggest that they may experience exacerbated effects of future perturbations to North Pacific and global climate compared to other populations of the same species. |
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Sebes, James Carleton Coll Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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Factors Influencing Run Strength of Upper Yukon River Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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factors influencing run strength of upper yukon river chinook salmon (oncorhynchus tshawytscha) |
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Whitehorse Yukon river Yukon |
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