Environmental variability and intraspecies diversification in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)

• Main Author: Michaud, Wendy
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2016
• Subjects: Arctic charr; Salvelinus alpinus; polymorphism; stable isotopes; adaptive diversity; trophic ecology; life history; fish; Arctic; Lake Hazen; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/10557

Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) exhibit what is arguably the greatest observed range of phenotypic and ecological diversity within a single vertebrate species. The patterns of adaptive diversity that have developed among populations over evolutionary timescales have been well studied in this speci...