salmon straying in the idaho wilderness

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Hamann, E.J. and Kennedy, B.P. 2012. Juvenile dispersal affects straying behaviors of adults in a migratory population. Ecology 93:733–740.

Hamann, E.J., B.P. Kennedy, D.C. Whited, and J.A. Stanford. 2013. “Spatial variability in spawning habitat selection by Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in a wilderness river.” River Research and Applications. DOI: 10.1002/rra.2704

For my master’s research, I spent three summers in the Idaho backcountry studying salmon life history variation, specifically determining the amount of straying experienced by a remnant Chinook salmon population using isotopic signatures found in otoliths.

Video link: Wild Chinook building a redd at one of my study sites