My research explores a century of change in abundance, diversity, and productivity of salmon populations, and how these populations and their freshwater habitats will respond to future global change.
Prince Rupert Archives
Fish scales are my window into the past. I use a unique collection of salmon scales and biological data extracted from fish caught in commercial fisheries beginning in 1913, and compare the information concealed within these scales with fish from the modern era.
Prince Rupert Archives
Fish scales are my window into the past. I use a unique collection of salmon scales and biological data extracted from fish caught in commercial fisheries beginning in 1913, and compare the information concealed within these scales with fish from the modern era.
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Advances in molecular genetic tools have enabled the identification of individual populations from ancient scales, which opens a suite of interesting ecological questions to be answered that are relevant to conservation. |
In collaboration with colleagues, our recently published research demonstrates how freshwater habitats modulate a diversity of responses in salmon populations to a century of change in climate and competition - view our publication in Global Change Biology.
Currently, I'm investigating shifting salmon distribution in response to climate and land-use change...Stay tuned for more.
Additional questions that I'm working on, include:
1. Characterization of extinct sockeye salmon populations in the Skeena.
2. Loss of population-specific genetic richness over millennial time-scales.
3. Colonization of emerging freshwater habitats by multiple species of Pacific salmon
Additional questions that I'm working on, include:
1. Characterization of extinct sockeye salmon populations in the Skeena.
2. Loss of population-specific genetic richness over millennial time-scales.
3. Colonization of emerging freshwater habitats by multiple species of Pacific salmon