Impact of naturally spawning captive-bred Atlantic salmon on wild populations: Depressed recruitment and increased risk of climate-mediated extinction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1673, 2009, Pages 3601-3610

  McGinnity, Philip ^a,b   Jennings, Eleanor ^c,d   DeEyto, Elvira ^b   Allott, Norman ^c   Samuelsson, Patrick ^e   Rogan, Gerard ^b   Whelan, Ken ^b   Cross, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^e SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Bioenergetics; Captive breeding; Climate change

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOENERGETICS; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EXPLOITATION; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PHOTOPERIOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID; SPAWNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; SPAWNING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 70350247658     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0799     Document Type: Article

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