Using thermal limits to assess establishment of fish dispersing to high latitude and high elevation watersheds

• Main Authors: Dunmall, Karen M, Mochnacz, Neil J, Zimmerman, Christian, Lean, Charles, Reist, James D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Keta; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/73094; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0051

Distributional shifts of biota to higher latitudes and elevations are presumably influenced by species-specific physiological tolerances related to warming temperatures. However, it is establishment rather than dispersal that may be limiting colonizations in these cold frontier areas. In freshwater...