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Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish
Estimates of juvenile survival are critical for informing population dynamics and the ecology of fish, yet these demographic parameters are difficult to measure. Here, we demonstrate that advances in animal tracking technology provide opportunities to evaluate survival of juvenile tagged fish. We im...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10622427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37919328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46330-6 |
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author | Koeberle, Alexander L. Pearsall, Webster Hammers, Brad E. Mulhall, Daniel McKenna, James E. Chalupnicki, Marc Sethi, Suresh A. |
author_facet | Koeberle, Alexander L. Pearsall, Webster Hammers, Brad E. Mulhall, Daniel McKenna, James E. Chalupnicki, Marc Sethi, Suresh A. |
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description | Estimates of juvenile survival are critical for informing population dynamics and the ecology of fish, yet these demographic parameters are difficult to measure. Here, we demonstrate that advances in animal tracking technology provide opportunities to evaluate survival of juvenile tagged fish. We implemented a whole-lake telemetry array in conjunction with small acoustic tags (including tags < 1.0 g) to track the fate of stocked juvenile cisco (Coregonus artedi) as part of a native species restoration effort in the Finger Lakes region of New York, USA. We used time-to-event modeling to characterize the survival function of stocked fish, where we infer mortality as the cessation of tag detections. Survival estimates revealed distinct stages of juvenile cisco mortality including high immediate post-release mortality, followed by a period of elevated mortality during an acclimation period. By characterizing mortality over time, the whole-lake biotelemetry effort provided information useful for adapting stocking practices that may improve survival of stocked fish, and ultimately the success of the species reintroduction effort. The combination of acoustic technology and time-to-event modeling to inform fish survival may have wide applicability across waterbodies where receiver arrays can be deployed at scale and where basic assumptions about population closure can be satisfied. |
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spelling | pubmed-106224272023-11-04 Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish Koeberle, Alexander L. Pearsall, Webster Hammers, Brad E. Mulhall, Daniel McKenna, James E. Chalupnicki, Marc Sethi, Suresh A. Sci Rep Article Estimates of juvenile survival are critical for informing population dynamics and the ecology of fish, yet these demographic parameters are difficult to measure. Here, we demonstrate that advances in animal tracking technology provide opportunities to evaluate survival of juvenile tagged fish. We implemented a whole-lake telemetry array in conjunction with small acoustic tags (including tags < 1.0 g) to track the fate of stocked juvenile cisco (Coregonus artedi) as part of a native species restoration effort in the Finger Lakes region of New York, USA. We used time-to-event modeling to characterize the survival function of stocked fish, where we infer mortality as the cessation of tag detections. Survival estimates revealed distinct stages of juvenile cisco mortality including high immediate post-release mortality, followed by a period of elevated mortality during an acclimation period. By characterizing mortality over time, the whole-lake biotelemetry effort provided information useful for adapting stocking practices that may improve survival of stocked fish, and ultimately the success of the species reintroduction effort. The combination of acoustic technology and time-to-event modeling to inform fish survival may have wide applicability across waterbodies where receiver arrays can be deployed at scale and where basic assumptions about population closure can be satisfied. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10622427/ /pubmed/37919328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46330-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Koeberle, Alexander L. Pearsall, Webster Hammers, Brad E. Mulhall, Daniel McKenna, James E. Chalupnicki, Marc Sethi, Suresh A. Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
title | Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
title_full | Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
title_fullStr | Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
title_full_unstemmed | Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
title_short | Whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
title_sort | whole-lake acoustic telemetry to evaluate survival of stocked juvenile fish |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10622427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37919328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46330-6 |
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