Using remote sensing, occupancy estimation, and fine-scale habitat characterization to evaluate fall chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) spawning habitat usage in Arctic Alaska

• Main Author: Clawson, Chelsea M.
• Other Authors: Falke, Jeffrey, Westley, Peter, Prakash, Anupma, Martin, Aaron
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Chum salmon; Spawning; Habitat; Arctic regions; Arctic; Fairbanks; Keta; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7869

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017 Groundwater upwellings provide stable temperatures for overwinter salmon embryo development and this process may be particularly important in cold, braided, gravel-bed Arctic rivers where rivers may freeze solid in the absence of upwellings. Aerial...