Seasonal habitat utilization provides evidence for site fidelity during both spawn and non-spawning seasons in Lake Ontario cisco Coregonus artedi

AJ Gatch, D Gorsky, BC Weidel, ZF Biesinger… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lake Ontario cisco Coregonus artedi population declined in the 20th century,
and restoration of this species is a management objective. Management tools to restore …

Further evidence from common garden rearing experiments of heritable traits separating lean and siscowet lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) ecotypes

PT Euclide, A Jasonowicz, SP Sitar… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic evidence of selection for complex and polygenically regulated phenotypes can
easily become masked by neutral population genetic structure and phenotypic plasticity …

Life on a seamount: lake charr at Stannard Rock, Lake Superior, 2011–2015

SP Sitar - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Lake Superior has four extant lake charr ecotypes including the ubiquitous lean (shallow-
water form), the deep-water siscowet, and the less common, mid-depth redfin and humper …

Synthesis of recent research and attributes of recovered lean Lake Trout populations in Lake Superior, 1993–2022

SP Sitar, MJ Seider, MP Ebener… - … American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of recovered Lake
Trout Salvelinus namaycush populations in Lake Superior by describing its population …

Nature or nurture: a genetic basis for the behavioral selection of depth in siscowet and lean lake char (Salvelinus namaycush) ecomorphs

F Goetz, S Sitar, M Seider… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Leans and siscowets are lake char ecomorphs in Lake Superior that exhibit distinct depth
selection behavior in the wild with leans occupying shallow (< 50 m) depths and undergoing …

Trophic ecology of juvenile lean and siscowet lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Superior: assessing for potential competition

BS Gerig, SP Sitar, WF Otte, DL Yule… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
We investigated the spatial overlap, diet, isotopic niche, and growth of juvenile lean and
siscowet lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Superior to address concerns of …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights gained from tagging walleye (Sander vitreus) with pop-off data storage tags and acoustic transmitters in Lake Ontario

CW Elliott, MS Ridgway, PJ Blanchfield… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improvements in electronic tagging techniques provide new opportunities to gain insights
into fish habitat selection and behaviours that have been difficult to capture using traditional …

[HTML][HTML] Life-history variation among four lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) morphs at six locations in Lake Superior

MJ Hansen, AM Muir, NA Nate, L Chavarie… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2024 - Elsevier
Life-history variation among four lake trout Salvelinus namaycush morphs was quantified at
six geographically distant locations in Lake Superior (∼ 30 to 250 km apart), one of the …

[PDF][PDF] Trophic dynamics of the Lake Superior fish community

A Edwards - 2023 - commons.nmu.edu
Food web analysis is an important tool to describe complex biological interactions and
quantify energy flows through ecosystems (Johnson et al., 2004; Kitchell et al., 2000) …

The influence of life history on the response to parasitism: differential response to non-Lethal Sea lamprey parasitism by two Lake Charr Ecomorphs

TJ Firkus, FW Goetz, G Fischer… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The energetic demands of stressors like parasitism require hosts to reallocate energy away
from normal physiological processes to survive. Life history theory provides predictions …