| Title | Estimating juvenile salmon estuarine carrying capacities to support restoration planning and evaluation |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2023 |
| Authors | Hall, Jason, Phil Roni, Kai Ross, Meghan J. Camp, Jason Nuckols, and Claire Ruffing |
| Secondary Title | Estuaries and Coasts |
| Volume | 46 |
| Pagination | p.1046–1066 |
| Date Published | 2023 |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Electronic Subscription, Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | Alsea Bay, Chetco River, Chinook salmon = Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Coho salmon = Oncorhynchus kisutch, Coos Bay, Coquille River, Elk River, juvenile fish, natural resource management, Necanicum River, Nehalem River, Nestucca Bay, Rogue River, Salmon River, sea levels, Siletz Bay, Siuslaw River, Sixes River, Tillamook Bay, Umpqua River, Yaquina Bay |
| Notes | What is the carrying capacity of salmon habitat in a time of global warming and rising sea levels? To answer this question, the authors of this paper took a hard dive into the literature, involving over 4,500 printed estimates of densities of juvenile salmonids in estuaries and floodplains. This data was then used in a habitat expansion approach to estimate historic, current potential and predicted population densities after sea level rise. “We demonstrate the habitat expansion approach by applying the quantiles of observed juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and coho salmon (O. kisutch) densities (fish/ha) to spatial data describing current, historical or potential, and predicted (based on seal level rise) habitat extents for 16 coastal Oregon estuaries to estimate carrying capacities” (from the Abstract). This information will be important in the design and evaluation of restoration projects. This is an open-access article. |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-023-01185-y |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12237-023-01185-y |
