Local factors affecting winter habitat use of non-native rainbow trout in a boreal stream in northern Japan

Author(s):  
Chiharu Furusawa ◽  
Yukiyo Suehiro-Kanazawa ◽  
Yuuki Tanaka ◽  
Sho Fukui ◽  
Chitose Yamazaki ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Proulx

Late-winter habitat use by the Fisher, Pekania pennanti (Erxleben, 1777) in northwestern Saskatchewan was assessed in February 2009, 2011, and 2012. A total of 78 Fisher tracks were recorded over 60 300 m of snowshoe surveys. Fisher tracks were significantly less frequent than expected in Tamarack (Larix laricina [Du Roi] K. Koch) stands with > 40% crown closure and mainly 0–10 m trees (P < 0.05) and in open areas. Fishers used other habitat types equal to availability, including muskeg and coniferous, mixed, and deciduous forest stands. Maintaining mosaics of forest stands of different seral stages interspersed with muskeg would meet the late-winter habitat needs of Fishers in the Boreal Plains Ecozone of northwestern Saskatchewan.


1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 2119-2128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Riehle ◽  
J. S. Griffith

We assessed changes in density, distribution, and microhabitat of age-0 rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Silver Creek, a partially spring-fed stream, by periodic snorkeling in August 1987 through January 1988. We examined trout stomach contents and invertebrate drift samples in diel collections in August, September, October, and January to test if the period of feeding shifted from daytime to nighttime, concurrent with a transition to day concealment. In late September, fish aggregated briefly during the day and then began to conceal themselves in macrophyte beds, undercut banks, and submerged sedges and grasses along streambanks as temperature dropped below 8 °C in early October. Fish emerged from concealment at night, and numbers of trout visible were greatest 30–60 min after sunset and about 30 min before sunrise. Periods of peak feeding changed from afternoon and evening in August and September, when fish were day active, to mainly at night in October after the initiation of day concealment. Trout did not feed upon abundant chironomids in the daytime drift in October. In January, fish fed at 1–4 °C on mayflies, and stomachs were fullest in the early morning. Observations suggest that Silver Creek trout experienced a metabolic deficit that began in September.


2008 ◽  
Vol 255 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 468-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Borkowski ◽  
J. Ukalska
Keyword(s):  
Roe Deer ◽  

2015 ◽  
Vol 174 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Olalla Kerstupp ◽  
Gabriel Ruiz Aymá ◽  
José I. González Rojas ◽  
Antonio Guzmán Velasco

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