The effects of elevated water temperature on adult Pacific salmon gene expression, blood physiology and mortality
Many populations of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) now encounter warmer rivers during their once-in-a-lifetime spawning migrations, which can result in premature mortality and may have contributed to some of the population declines observed in recent decades. One objective of this thesis was to...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43167 |