Responses of Brook Trout and Creek Chubs to Turbidity
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 111 (3) , 392-395
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1982)111<392:robtac>2.0.co;2
Abstract
The influence of red-clay turbidity on behavior and distribution of brook trout S. fontinalis and creek chubs S. atromaculatus was measured in the laboratory. Creek chubs preferred highly turbid water (56.6 formazin turbidity units.sbd.FTU) over moderately turbid water (5.8 FTU) but brook trout did not show a preference. In moderately turbid water both species were more active and used overhead cover less than in clear water. Turbidity may represent an important isolating mechanism that promotes production of creek chubs.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Influence of Turbidity on Survival, Growth, and Distribution of Larval Lake Herring (Coregonus artedii)Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1976
- Food and Space as Regulators of Salmonid Populations in StreamsThe American Naturalist, 1966