Mechanics of foraging success and optimal microhabitat selection in Alaskan Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus)

• Main Authors: Bozeman, Bryan B., Grossman, Gary D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Varden; Arctic grayling; Thymallus arcticus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/93159; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0115

Most fishes residing in temperate streams in the Northern Hemisphere are drift-feeders. Despite this fact, little is known about the mechanisms of drift-feeding itself. We used Alaskan Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus), an abundant boreal drift-feeder, to examine the effects of water velocity on...