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...

Populations of the marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) have declined critically due to introgression by brown trout (Salmo trutta) strains. In order to define strategies for long-term conservation, we examined the genetic structure of the 8 known pure populations using 15 microsatellite loci. The analyses reveal extraordinarily strong genetic differentiation among populations separated by < 15 km, ...

In the years 1999-2002, first studies were carried out on the metazoan parasites of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) recently reintroduced into the Elbe River drainage system, after more than 50 years after the complete extinction of the Elbe salmon population. A total of six helminth species were recorded from salmon smolts from three streams of the Elbe River basin (Kamenice River, Jestedský ...

in order to determine the effects of fish size and weight on its salinity tolerance, the chloride cells (ccs) immunolocalization changes were examined in caspian salmon (salmo trutta caspius) parrs, with the same age (about 2 years old) but different types (type a: 4.88 g, 8.36 cm; type b: 14 g, 11.84 cm; type c: 24.05 g, 14.08 cm). fish survival rate, blood osmolality, gills ccs histological a...