| Title | Habitat selection influences sex distribution, morphology, tissue biochemistry, and parasite load of juvenile coho salmon in the West Fork Smith River, Oregon |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Rodnick, Kenneth J., Sophie St.-Hilaire, Pavan K. Battiprolu, Steven M. Seiler, Michael L. Kent, Madison S. Powell, and Joseph L. Ebersole |
| Secondary Title | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society |
| Volume | 137 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pagination | p.1571-1590 |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Guin SH1 .A5, Electronic Subscription |
| Keywords | Coho salmon = Oncorhynchus kisutch, dissolved oxygen, feeding behavior, geology, habitats, hydrology, juvenile fish, natural resource management, parasites, precipitation, sediments, spatial distribution, temporal distribution, water temperature, West Fork Smith River |
| Notes | Surveyed juvenile coho salmon in the summers of 2004-2005 in the West Fork of the Smith River. Females preferred upper, cooler waters, while males tended to congregate in the warmer lower reach. Females tended to be more robust and better endurance swimmers. Both groups had heavy parasite burdens. "We show for the first time that there are sex differences in habitat distribution and the endurance swimming ability of juvenile coho salmon. We also found a high prevalence of multiple tissue-specific parasites in all fish in the West Fork Smith River. Despite similar genotypes, fish in the upper reach had deeper bodies, higher condition factors, and blood lipids, regardless of sex." (p.1587) |
| DOI | 10.1577/T07-138.1 |
