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Title:

Juvenile salmonid abundance in a diamictic semi‐fluvial stream in Norway—does stream bed shelter beat large woody debris?

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Bretzel, Joachim B.; Pulg, Ulrich; Geist, Juergen
Abstract:
This study investigates the effect of large woody debris (LWD) on the abundance of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.) and anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta, L.) in semi-alluvial side channels of the river Aurlandselva (Norway) using point electrofishing and microhabitat mapping. Not the presence of LWD, but stream bed shelter availability and the distance to spawning grounds affected the fish abundance (fish/point), independent of other habitat components. LWD showed only an effect on fish abundance when in interaction with other habitat components. This discrepancy can be explained by the availability of cavities in the shelter-rich coarse substrate which provide sufficient cover and territory for juvenile fish at the given carrying capacity of river Aurlandselva. Whilst LWD may be most effective to provide shelter in lowland streams (bed slope <0.005), maintaining or restoring shelter-rich coarse substrates should be considered a key priority in steeper salmonid rivers and associated semi-fluvial streams.
Keywords:
dead wood; fish abundance; fish habitat structure; LWD; river restoration; salmonids; substrate shelter
Dewey Decimal Classification:
570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie; 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
Journal title:
River Research and Applications
Year:
2024
Journal volume:
40
Pages contribution:
780-790
Reviewed:
ja
Language:
en
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1002/rra.4263
WWW:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rra.4263
Publisher:
Wiley
E-ISSN:
1535-14591535-1467
Status:
Verlagsversion / published
Submitted:
28.08.2023
Accepted:
14.02.2024
Date of publication:
29.02.2024
CC license:
by, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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