Marine reptiles, birds and mammals and nutrient transfers among the seas and the land: an appraisal of current knowledge

B Moss - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2017 - Elsevier
There is convincing evidence that large land mammals were formerly responsible for
substantial transfers of nutrients across the freshwater and land system. Many of them were …

Nutrient subsidies from iteroparous fish migrations can enhance stream productivity

ES Childress, JD Allan, PB McIntyre - Ecosystems, 2014 - Springer
Migratory animals often transfer nutrients between ecosystems, enhancing productivity in the
subsidized system. Most research on nutrient subsidies by migratory fishes has focused on …

Stream physical characteristics impact habitat quality for Pacific salmon in two temperate coastal watersheds

JB Fellman, E Hood, W Dryer, S Pyare - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Climate warming is likely to cause both indirect and direct impacts on the biophysical
properties of stream ecosystems especially in regions that support societally important fish …

High salmon density and low discharge create periodic hypoxia in coastal rivers

CJ Sergeant, JR Bellmore, C McConnell… - Ecosphere, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is essential to the survival of almost all aquatic organisms. Here, we
examine the possibility that abundant Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and low …

Can nutrient additions facilitate recovery of Pacific salmon?

JR Benjamin, JR Bellmore, E Whitney… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Multiple restoration actions have been implemented in response to declining salmon
populations. Among these is the addition of salmon carcasses or artificial nutrients to mimic …

A critical assessment of the ecological assumptions underpinning compensatory mitigation of salmon-derived nutrients

SF Collins, AM Marcarelli, CV Baxter… - Environmental …, 2015 - Springer
We critically evaluate some of the key ecological assumptions underpinning the use of
nutrient replacement as a means of recovering salmon populations and a range of other …

Does what goes up also come down? Using a recruitment model to balance alewife nutrient import and export

BL Barber, AJ Gibson, AJ O'Malley… - Marine and Coastal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Migrating adult Alewives Alosa pseudoharengus are a source of marine‐derived
nutrients on the East Coast of North America, importing nitrogen and phosphorus into …

Decomposition of sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus carcasses: temperature effects, nutrient dynamics, and implications for stream food webs

DM Weaver, SM Coghlan, J Zydlewski, RS Hogg… - Hydrobiologia, 2015 - Springer
Anadromous fishes serve as vectors of marine-derived nutrients into freshwaters that are
incorporated into aquatic and terrestrial food webs. Pacific salmonines Oncorhynchus spp …

River management alters ecosystem metabolism in a large oligotrophic river

K Chowanski, L Kunza, G Hoffman… - Freshwater …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Algae and aquatic plants support river food webs through in-situ primary production.
However, gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER) are rarely …

Fish reproductive phenology shifts with increasing temperature and year

ST Koenigbauer, ML Cubbage, LD Warren… - Biology …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Temperate fishes often spawn in response to environmental cues, such as temperature,
thereby facilitating larval emergence concurrent with suitable biotic and abiotic conditions …