Salmon Conservation Under Changing Conditions and with Freshwater-marine Carryover Effects

Abstract Excerpt:
Conservation management of endangered salmon in regulated rivers requires an understanding of drivers across life stages in freshwater and marine systems. Clear relationships between survival and environmental drivers can be difficult to identify with certainty, especially while environmental conditions are shifting regionally and through time. We presented on a series of papers that considered: 1) what shifting relationships among environmental indices can mean for predicting salmon responses (Gosselin et al. 2021a), and 2) the relative contributions of environmental, biological and anthropogenic drivers on smolt-to-adult survival (Gosselin et al. 2021b).