| Title | Fish use of turbulence around wood in winter: physical experiments on hydraulic variability and habitat selection by juvenile coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors | Tullos, Desirée, and Cara Walter |
| Secondary Title | Environmental Biology of Fishes |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pagination | p.1339-1353 |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Electronic Subscription, Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | Alsea River, Canal Creek, Oregon Hatchery Research Center, Coho salmon = Oncorhynchus kisutch, juvenile fish, hydrology, habitats, large woody debris, streamflow, mathematical modeling, |
| Notes | After decades of removing wood from Pacific Northwest streams, fishery managers are now re-introducing large woody debris into streams as a way of rehabilitating fisheries. There are still some questions about how large woody debris functions to help fish, especially salmonids. In this paper, the authors “investigated whether juvenile coho, under winter conditions, discriminated between microhabitats based primarily on flow strength, depth, distance to wood, or based on temporal or spatial variability of the flow field, with the hypothesis that turbulence would be a strong factor in habitat selection” (from the Abstract). They created a 1:1 scale model in the Oregon Hatchery Research Center based on a logjam on Canal Creek, a tributary of the Alsea River, and simulated winter conditions. |
| URL | https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/w3763c23r |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10641-014-0362-4 |
| Series Title | Environmental Biology of Fishes |
