Journal
ECOSPHERE
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00255.1
Keywords
Chinook salmon; climate change; dams; degree days; egg incubation; emergence; Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; phenology
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- NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC)
- REUT Division, NWFSC
- Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
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Alterations in variance of riverine thermal regimes have been observed and are predicted with climate change and human development. We tested whether changes in daily or seasonal thermal variability, aside from changes in mean temperature, could have biological consequences by exposing Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) eggs to eight experimental thermal regimes. Thermal variance impacted both emergence timing and development at emergence. Further, genetics influenced the magnitude of that response. Ecological implications include: (1) changes in thermal variability, independent of warming, have the potential to alter the timing of life history processes, (2) the commonly-used degree day accumulation model is not sufficient to predict how organisms respond to altered temperature regimes, and (3) there are likely to be genetic differences in how individuals and populations respond to future water temperature regimes.
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