Understanding Chinook Salmon-Ecosystem Interactions at the Limit of Their Inland Range, as Told by Trees and Teslin Tlingit Knowledge Holders

• Main Author: Connoy, Jared
• Other Authors: Vamosi, Steven, Rogers, Sean, Munkittrick, Kelly
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Science 2022
• Subjects: Pacific Salmon; Indigenous Knowledge; Yukon; Ecology; Environmental Sciences; Pacific; Teslin; tlingit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/114605; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39725

Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) function as major sources of sustenance and nutrients in moving from marine environments inland. This has been demonstrated in coastal systems by positive relationships between Pacific salmon abundance and riparian tree growth and δ15N, likely mediated by predators...