Niche Biology / Life History and Demography I

Time: 11:00 - 17:10
Location: Salon H

Presentations

11:00 - 11:20: From top to bottom: Do Lake Trout diversify along a depth gradient in Great Bear Lake, NT, Canada?
Chavarie, L*; Howland, K.L.; Harris, L. N.; Hansen, M.J.; Harford, W.J.; Gallagher, C.P.; Baillie, S.M.; Malley, B.; Tonn, W.M.; Muir, A.M.; Krueger, C.C.

11:20 - 11:40: Diet and isotopic niche of Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) at the northern edge of its range: a test of niche specificity
Burbank, J.*; Finch, M.; Drake, D.A.R. & Power, M.

11:40 - 12:00: Pop-off data storage tags reveal niche partitioning among predators in Lake Ontario
Raby, G.D.*, Johnson, T.B., Fisk, A.T.

12:00 - 13:20: Lunch

13:20 - 13:40: Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) habitat overlap with wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis) in natural streams: Do habitat and landscape factors override competitive interactions?
Roloson S.D.*; Knysh K.M.; Coffin M.R.S.; Gormley K.L.; Pater C.C.; van den Heuvel M.R.

13:40 - 14:00: An evaluation of single-species and community-based approaches to assess impacts of habitat alteration on fishes and fish habitat
Montgomery, F.*; Minns, K.; Reid, S.; Mandrak, N.E.

14:00 - 14:20: Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) habitat trends in south-central Ontario lakes: Insights from ~40 years of end-of-summer hypolimnetic oxygen data
Nelligan, C.*; Jeziorski, A.; Rühland, K.M.; Paterson, A.M.; Smol, J.P.

14:20 - 14:40: Experimental vertebrate translocations reveal the relative importance of habitat and population genetic risks in novel environments
Yates, M.C.*; Bowles, E.; Fraser, D.J.

14:40 - 15:00: Habitat characteristics and fish community in small, seasonal arctic streams in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut
Portt, C.B*, Coker, G., Reid, J., Vanengen, R., Ellenor, J.

15:00 - 15:30: Nutrition Break

15:30 - 15:50: Habitat associations of fishes in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, Canada
Hancock, H.*, Kanavillil, N., Rennie, M., Doka, S.

15:50 - 16:10: Intraspecific variation of density-dependent growth and mortality among three neighbouring populations of a stream fish
Matte, J.-M.; Fraser, D.J.;Grant, J.W.A.

16:10 - 16:30: Size selectivity of traditional and knotless diamond codends in the Iceland redfish (Sebastes spp.) fishery
Z. Cheng*, H. A. Einarsson, S. Bayse, B. Herrmann, P. Winger

16:30 - 16:50: Ecological change alters the evolutionary response to harvest in a freshwater fish
Gobin, J.*, Lester, N.P., Fox, M.G., Dunlop, E.S.

16:50 - 17:10: Providence revisited: The overlooked role of provenance in shaping life histories of brown trout (Salmo trutta)
Elvidge, C.K.*; Lemopoulos, A.; Hyvärinen, P.; Vornanen, M.; Vainikka, A.