Ecological factors influencing fish distribution in a large subarctic lake system

• Main Author: Plumb, Miranda Paige
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Fairbanks; Varden; Arctic grayling; Pygmy whitefish; Subarctic; Thymallus arcticus; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/5889

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2006 The coastal climate and frequent wind storms in southwest Alaska create an atypical thermal environment (non-stratified in summer) in the remote Ugashik lakes. This study documents the distribution of lake trout 'Salvelinus namaycush, ' ar...