Closing the gap between science and management of cold‐water refuges in rivers and streams

FH Mejia, V Ouellet, MA Briggs… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities and climate change threaten coldwater organisms in freshwater
ecosystems by causing rivers and streams to warm, increasing the intensity and frequency of …

Cold-water habitats, climate refugia, and their utility for conserving salmonid fishes

DJ Isaak, MK Young - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Anthropogenic climate change is warming global temperatures, with significant implications
for salmonid fishes that depend on the availability of cold water during one or more life …

Multi‐scale relationships in thermal limits within and between two cold‐water frog species uncover different trends in physiological vulnerability

AS Cicchino, AA Shah, BR Forester… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Critical thermal limits represent an important component of an organism's capacity to cope
with future temperature changes. Understanding the drivers of variation in these traits may …

Evidence of a temperature–oxygen squeeze within floodplain thermal refuge habitats

H Barrett, S Gregory, J Armstrong - Freshwater Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Vertical heterogeneity in lakes and estuaries can present cold‐adapted fishes with a
temperature–oxygen squeeze, such that the epilimnion is stressfully warm and the cooler …

Timing of reproduction underlies fitness tradeoffs for a salmonid fish

JR Baldock, RK Al‐Chokhachy, MR Campbell… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Life history diversity is generated and maintained in part by density‐dependent fitness
tradeoffs that inhibit a single trait value from reaching fixation. While central to our …

Addressing coldwater temperature impairment in a changing climate

PC Kusnierz, J Leiman, HI Jager - Fisheries, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is concerning for fisheries professionals because increased water
temperatures threaten coldwater habitats, which are vital to recreational and commercial …

Can thermal refuges save salmonids? Simulation of cold‐pool benefits to salmonid populations

SF Railsback, BC Harvey - Transactions of the American …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The literature on thermal refuges has focused on when fish use what kinds of
refuge, but we address how refuge availability and characteristics affect population …

Spatial and temporal overlap between hatchery‐and natural‐origin steelhead and Chinook Salmon during spawning in the Klickitat River, Washington, USA

JS Zendt, MB Allen, TJ Kock, RW Perry… - … American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective A goal of many segregated salmonid hatchery programs is to minimize potential
interbreeding between hatchery‐and natural‐origin fish. Our objective was to assess this on …

Linking organismal physiology and the landscape to predict vulnerability to climate change

A Cicchino - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Global temperatures continue to increase at unprecedented rates, both in mean and in
variance. Thus, a major challenge for scientists of the 21 st century is to predict whether …