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Research > Components
Component 1.1 : Productive capacity of fish habitats in rivers
Objectves :
The objectives of the Productive Capacity of Fish Habitats in Rivers component are:
- to provide metrics of productive capacity of fish habitats (PCFH; by species and life-stages) for a series of riverine ecosystems (this data will form the basis for the analysis of the relationships between PCFH and chemical, physical, and biological drivers for the complete network);
- to develop Habitat Quality Models (HQM) for all fish species and life-stages of the study sites, and to assess the relative role of local, contextual, and ecosystemic environmental conditions on predictions made by HQM;
- to assess the existence of relationships between phenotypic traits of fish, metrics of PCFH, and the environmental conditions used by different combinations of fish species and life-stages; and,
- to test the hypothesis that HQM developed at different sites may vary with fish density.
Students Projects:
| Project Title | Supervisor (s) | University | Student | Collaborators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stress state of fish in hydro-peaking River: effects of heavy daily flow discharge in a top predator, Esox lucius (Northern pike) | D. Boisclair | Université de Montréal | Simonne Harvey-Lavoie (Ph. D.) | Suzie Currie ( Mount Allison University) |
| Ecological effects of river discharge and temperature regimes on fish populations | D. Boisclair & P. Legendre |
Université de Montréal | Camille Macnaughton (Ph. D.) | C. Senay, G. Lanthier et G. Bourque (Université de Montréal) |
| Uncertainty in instream flow modelling and productive capacity estimation for small hydro | M. Bradford & R. Peterman |
Simon Fraser University | Dorian Turner (REM) |
