Redd Site Selection by Brown Trout in Douglas Creek, Wyoming
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Freshwater Ecology
- Vol. 5 (3) , 365-371
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02705060.1990.9665249
Abstract
We described redds of 20–40 cm brown trout Salmo trutta in a mountain stream in the Central Rocky Mountains. Average redd length was 147 cm, water depth 16 cm, and water velocity 34 cm/s, but variation was substantial. Brown trout selected water depths of 12–18 cm and velocities of 24–37 cm/s and avoided depths less than 6 cm and velocities less than 12 cm/s. Water depths and velocities measured over redds in 1987 and 1988 were similar to those measured in 1975 despite a 50–100% increase in the minimum flow during the 1987 and 1988 spawning periods.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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