Most predictions about species responses to climate change ignore species interactions. Helland and colleagues (2011) test whether this assumption is valid by evaluating whether ice cover affects competition between brown trout [Salmo trutta (L.)] and Arctic charr [Salvelinus alpines (L.)]. They show that increasing ice cover correlates with lower trout biomass when Arctic charr co-occur, but n...

Temperature is a limiting factor in the distribution of many animals. The ova of brown trout (Salmo trutta) can develop without excessive mortality at water temperatures between 3 and 15° C. (Gray, 1928), while for adult trout, mortality is high above 20 and complete above 25 C. (Gardner & Leetham, 1914; Audige\ 1921; Gardner, 1926). It is generally assumed that temperature is the most importan...

JAVIER LOBÓN-CERVIÁ* , PHAEDRA BUDY AND ERIK MORTENSEN *Department of Evolutionary Ecology, National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, U.S.A. and U.S. Geological Survey, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Intermountain Center for River Rehabilitation and Restoration, Utah State University, Logan, U...

In this study, the use of chitosan prepared in different solvents (acetic acid, lactic acid) as a coating material was researched. The lowest mean pH, TBARS and TVB-N values among the treatment groups were observed in the acetic acid group. Similarly, the lowest growth of aerobic, lactic acid and Pseudomonas bacteria was recorded in this group. The growth of aerobic bacteria in the fillets that...