Patterns of declining zooplankton energy in the northeast Atlantic as an indicator for marine survival of Atlantic salmon

E Tyldesley, NS Banas, G Diack… - ICES Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Return rates of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from the sea to European rivers have declined
in recent decades. The first months at sea are critical for growth and survival; recent …

Body length changes for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) over five decades exhibit weak spatial synchrony over a broad latitudinal gradient

TL Imlay, C Breau, GJR Dauphin, G Chaput… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors that drive spatial synchrony among populations or species is
important for management and recovery of populations. The range‐wide declines in Atlantic …

Reintroducing Atlantic salmon in the river Rhine for decades: Why did it not result in the return of a viable population?

JC van Rijssel, AW Breukelaar… - River Research and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater species biodiversity is under threat. The average global decline for migratory fish
species is estimated to be more than 75% since 1970. Atlantic salmon is one of these …

Cortisol in fish scales remains stable during extended periods of storage

C O'Toole, P White, CT Graham… - Conservation …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Measurement of cortisol in fish scales is attracting considerable attention as a non-invasive
indicator of chronic stress in wild populations. For many fish species of management and …

Environmental change unlinks a gene from its trait

M Wellenreuther - Molecular Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), sea age is a major life history trait governed by a sex‐
specific trade‐off between reproductive success and survival. In this issue of Molecular …

Climatic limits to Atlantic salmon population fitness at continental scales

OF Morris, H Baroarson, A Gonzalez Ferreras… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Anadromous fish populations are declining globally, partly due to acute pressure from rapid
environmental change in their freshwater and marine habitats. A more mechanistic …