Landscape factors modulating patterns of salmonid distribution during summer in north patagonian rivers

LALLEMENT, MAILÉN ELIZABETH; RECHENCQ, MAGALÍ; FERNÁNDEZ, MARÍA VALERIA; ZATTARA, EDUARDO; SOSNOVSKY, ALEJANDRO; VIGLIANO, PABLO; GARIBOTTI, GILDA; ALONSO, MARCELO FABIÁN; LIPPOLT, GUSTAVO; MACCHI, PATRICIO JORGE

JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2020

0022-1112

Salmonids were deliberately introduced to Patagonia from the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th century and have since colonized almost every environment they had access to, but not always thriving. Through field captures and landscape analysis, we found that differential distribution and abundance may result from the interplay between the evolutionary fingerprint left by each species´ native environment and the availability of those conditions in new environments to which they have been translocated.