Brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, microhabitat selection and diet under low summer stream flows

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 149-155

  Sotiropoulos, Jim C ^a,b   Nislow, K H ^b   Ross, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brook trout; Diet; Microhabitat selection; Stream flows

Indexed keywords

DIET; FISH; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; STREAMFLOW;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 33744474619     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2006.00487.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Allan J.D. (1981) Determinants of diet of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in a mountain stream. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38, 184-192.
2. Baker E.A. & Coon T.G. (1997) Development of evaluation criteria of alternative habitat suitability criteria for brook trout. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126, 65-76.
3. Barten P.K., Snowman T.K., Lyons P.J., Mahlstedt T., O'Connor R. & Spencer B.A. (1998) Managing a watershed protection forest. Journal of Forestry 96, 10-15.
4. Baumann C.J., Barten P.K. & Ross M.R. (2000) Stormflow effects on channel microtopography and woody debris in a New England stream. In: P.J. Wigington & R.L. Beschta (eds) Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Landuse Watersheds. Middleburg, VA, USA: American Water Resources Association, TPS-2, pp. 77-82.
5. Bohlin T., Hamrin S., Heggberget T.G., Rasmussen G. & Saltveit S.J. (1989) Electrofishing - theory and practice with special emphasis on salmonids. Hydrobiologia 173, 9-43.
6. Cada G.F., Loar J.M. & Sale M.J. (1987) Evidence of food limitation of rainbow and brown trout in southern Appalachia soft-water streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 116, 692-702.
7. Carlson S.M., Hendry A.P. & Letcher B.H. (2004) Natural selection acting on body size, growth rate and compensatory growth: An empirical test in a wild trout population. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6, 955-973.
8. Cho G.K. & Heath D.D. (2000) Comparison of tricane methanesulphonate (MS222) and clove oil anesthesia effects on the physiology of juvenile chinook salmon Onchorynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum). Aquaculture Research 31, 537-546.
9. Drake M.T. & Taylor W.W. (1996) Influence of spring and summer water temperature on brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis, growth and age structure in the Ford River, Michigan. Environmental Biology of Fishes 45, 41-51.
10. Egglishaw H.J. & Shackley P.E. (1977) Growth, survival and production of juvenile salmon and trout in a Scottish stream, 1966-1975. Journal of Fish Biology 11, 647-672.
11. Fausch K.D. (1984) Profitable stream positions for salmonids: Relating specific growth rate to net energy gain. Canadian Journal of Zoology 62, 441-451.
12. Grant J.W.A. & Kramer D.L. (1990) Territory size as a predictor of the upper limit to population density of juvenile salmonids in streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 47, 1724-1737.
13. Gries G. & Juanes F. (1998) Microhabitat use by juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) sheltering during the day in summer. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76, 1441-1449.
14. Hilderbrand R.H. & Kershner J.L. (2004) Influence of habitat type on food supply, selectivity, and diet overlap of Bonneville cutthroat trout and nonnative brook trout in Beaver Creek, Idaho. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24, 33-40.
15. Hill J. & Grossman G.D. (1993) An energetic model of microhabitat use for rainbow trout and rosyside dace. Ecology 74, 685-698.
16. Hughes N.F. (1998) A model of habitat selection by drift-feeding stream salmonids at different scales. Ecology 79, 281-294.
17. Hunt R.L. (1976) A long term evaluation of trout habitat development and its relation to improving management-related research. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 105, 361-364.
18. Kemp P.S., Gilvear D.J. & Armstrong J.D. (2003) Do juvenile Atlantic salmon parr track local changes in water velocity? River Research and Applications 19, 569-575.
19. Larson G.L. & Moore S.E. (1985) Encroachment of exotic rainbow trout into stream populations of native brook trout in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 114, 195-203.
20. Larson G.L., Moore S.E. & Carter B. (1995) Ebb and flow of encroachment by nonnative rainbow trout in a small stream in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124, 613-622.
21. Letcher B.H. & Gries G. (2003) Effect of life history variation on size and growth in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon. Journal of Fish Biology 62, 97-114.
22. Marschall E.A. & Crowder L.B. (1996) Assessing population responses to multiple anthropogenic effects: A case study with brook trout. Ecological Applications 6, 152-167.
23. McIntosh B.A., Sedell J.R., Thurow R.F., Clarke S.E. & Chandler G.L. (2000) Historical changes in pool habitats in the Columbia River Basin. Ecological Applications 10, 1478-1496.
24. McLaughlin R.L. & Grant J.W.A. (1994) Morphological and behavioral differences among recently-emerged brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis, foraging in slow- vs. fast-running water. Environmental Biology of Fishes 39, 289-300.
25. Nislow K.H., Folt C.L. & Parrish D.L. (1999) Favorable foraging locations for young Atlantic salmon: Application to habitat and population restoration. Ecological Applications 9, 1085-1099.
26. Nislow K.H., Folt C.L. & Parrish D.L. (2000) Spatially explicit bioenergetic analysis of habitat quality for age-0 Atlantic salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 129, 1067-1081.
27. Nislow K.H., Sepulveda A.J. & Folt C.L. (2004) Mechanistic linkage of hydrologic regime to summer growth of age-0 Atlantic salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133, 79-88.
28. Poff N.L. & Huryn A.D. (1998) Multi-scale determinants of secondary production in Atlantic salmon streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55 (Suppl. 1), 201-217.
29. Riley S.C. & Fausch K.D. (1995) Trout population response to habitat enhancement in six northern Colorado streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52, 34-53.
30. Shuler S.W., Nehring R.B. & Fausch K.D. (1994) Diel habitat selection by brown trout in the Rio Grande river, Colorado, after placement of boulder structures. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 14, 99-111.