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The bioenergetic basis of anadromy in brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) /Morinville, Geneviève R. January 2005 (has links)
Migratory and resident forms of salmonid fishes, including brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), coexist in many river systems, but little is known about the ecological basis of these important variations in life history. This thesis elucidates the bioenergetic basis of anadromy (migration from freshwater spawning sites to the sea) in populations of brook trout. By focusing on the early stages, I provide support for the idea that variation in energy allocation leads to the adoption of migratory or resident strategies. More specifically, I demonstrate that juvenile anadromous brook trout, in the year(s) prior to migration, exhibit higher food consumption rates but lower growth efficiencies compared to residents indicating that they have higher metabolic costs. Higher metabolic costs of migratory fish are associated with the exploitation of higher current velocity habitats that provide more food but at a higher cost. This conclusion is supported by differences in delta13C (migrants have more negative delta13 C compared to residents), morphology (migrants are more streamlined than residents), and field observations (brook trout inhabiting streams with both forms exploit a wider range of habitats than those inhabiting 'pure' resident streams). Brook trout thus appear to migrate in response to energetic limitations in their local habitat. The estuary to which they migrate has better feeding opportunities, as the prey spectrum at sea is both larger and wider than that found in freshwater. This permits them to undergo diet shifts to larger prey, reducing their foraging costs, and thus most likely contributes to the trout's rapid growth rates experienced at sea. Importantly, the results of this thesis indicate that the persistence of migrant and resident strategies in the same system suggest a trade-off between local adaptability and the ability to exploit large-scale environmental heterogeneity.
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The bioenergetic basis of anadromy in brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) /Morinville, Geneviève R. January 2005 (has links)
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Analysis of growth rhythms and activity patterns of brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis, based on replicated time series and time-dependent transition probabilities.Aboul Hosn, Wafa January 1997 (has links)
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Using radiocesium (137Cs) to measure and compare the bioenergetic budgets of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the fieldTucker, Strahan. January 1998 (has links)
Through the 137Cs mass balance method, annual consumption rates were estimated for juvenile Atlantic salmon parr and precocious males, as well as brook trout from 4 sites within the Ste Marguerite river system, Quebec. With explicit age analysis, feeding rates and growth rates were derived on an individual fish and age class basis. These represent the first consumption estimates for Atlantic salmon in the wild. The individual fish approach provided a range of data for a single site, as opposed to a single estimate per age class, allowing for an evaluation of the relationship between consumption and growth for each species or life-history variant. Subsequently, the concept of field maintenance ration was introduced as the intercept of consumption over growth. / Salmonid feeding rates were coupled with density estimates to derive total fish exploitation rates for two streams. The application of age- and site-specific feeding rates derived from the 137Cs mass balance method, solved a long standing paradox in stream ecology as all previously inferred salmonid exploitation rates have been in excess of prey turnover. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Using radiocesium (137Cs) to measure and compare the bioenergetic budgets of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the fieldTucker, Strahan. January 1998 (has links)
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