ProfColinBean

Love rivers?! Looking for an exciting PhD opportunity to better understand how to restore rivers at a landscape scale with multiple stakeholders?!
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@stir.ac.uk

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Triploid Atlantic salmon are physiologically disadvantaged at larger body sizes - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Triploid Atlantic salmon are physiologically disadvantaged at larger body sizes

This is interesting, triploid salmon have larger cells and inferior physiology than diploids. Lower aerobic scope, lower CTmax, higher Pcrit...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Review of a Decade of Anadromous Salmonid Hatchery (And Stocking) Research: Insights for Policy, Management and a Changing Climate Hatcheries and stocking programmes have long been a cornerstone of fisheries management, seen as tools for fisheries enhancement and/or conservation of threatened populations. Their use draws controv...

A Review of a Decade of Anadromous Salmonid Hatchery (And Stocking) Research: Insights for Policy, Management and a Changing Climate. Fish and Fisheries 1–20. doi.org/10.1111/faf.....

Coarse woody habitat addition increases fish community production ABSTRACT. Structural habitat in lake littoral zones is being degraded and lost due to lakeshore residential and watershed development, which can negatively

Coarse woody habitat addition increases fish community production, Fisheries, 2026;, vuag002, doi.org/10.1093/fshm...

What does success look like for Canada’s Salmonid Enhancement Program? ABSTRACT. Canada’s Salmonid Enhancement Program in British Columbia began in 1977 and is currently managed under several defined objectives. Hatchery opera

What does success look like for Canada’s Salmonid Enhancement Program?, Fisheries, 2026;, vuaf117, doi.org/10.1093/fshm...

Multistate mark–recapture modeling reveals Brown Trout movements during thermal refuge use ABSTRACTObjective. Salmonids rely on movements within and around thermal refuges for summer survival. Although thermal refuges can mitigate thermal stress,

Multistate mark–recapture modeling reveals Brown Trout movements during thermal refuge use, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 2026;, vnaf062, doi.org/10.1093/tafa...

The Smallmouth Bass species complex: Synthesis of eco-evolutionary diversity and a path forward for incorporating genomics in the management of popular sport fishes ABSTRACTObjective. Smallmouth Bass Micropterus dolomieu are crucial to North American freshwater biodiversity and have long been revered by anglers. Fisher

The Smallmouth Bass species complex: Synthesis of eco-evolutionary diversity and a path forward for incorporating genomics in the management of popular sport fishes, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 2026;, vnag001, doi.org/10.1093/tafa...

Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour (Spier, 2002). Des

Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews, Conservation Physiology, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, coaf085, doi.org/10.1093/conp...

A Tool for Prioritizing Gravel Augmentation Reaches for Sediment Starved Rivers. River Research and Applications 1–14. doi.org/10.1002/rra.....

Individual-based modeling of Atlantic salmon and brown trout outmigrants in a hydropeaking-regulated river: Effects of minimum baseflow and gravel augmentation on smolt production. Global Ecology and Conservation
Volume 66, April 2026, e04111 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Do invasive Brown Trout threaten Atlantic Salmon in North America? ABSTRACTObjective. Brown Trout Salmo trutta have been introduced from Europe into waters in eastern North America and may be contributing to the current po

Do invasive Brown Trout threaten Atlantic Salmon in North America?, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 2026;, vqaf123, doi.org/10.1093/najf...

In‐Field Cage Infestation Patterns of Host Fish for the Freshwater Pearl Mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) in a Fragmented River Before Restoration The freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) is among the most endangered unionids in Europe. Many populations are highly specialized and solely infest specific parapatric populations of...

In-Field Cage Infestation Patterns of Host Fish for the Freshwater Pearl Mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) in a Fragmented River Before Restoration. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 36, no. 2: e70346. doi.org/10.1002/aqc.....

Bayesian hierarchical stock–recruitment models for setting conservation limits for Atlantic salmon stocks in Scotland Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations in Scotland are subject to active management and conservation practices which require biological reference points (BRPs), specifically conservation limits....

Bayesian hierarchical stock–recruitment models for setting conservation limits for Atlantic salmon stocks in Scotland. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–12. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Time Series Analysis of Atlantic Salmon Catches in the Minho River over a Century. Fishes 2026, 11(3), 132;
doi.org/10.3390/fish...

Conservation targets and how to achieve them. Proc Biol Sci 1 February 2026; 293 (2065): 20252626. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

The workflow illustrates a step-by-step process for conducting causal analyses. Arrows indicate the typical flow of an analysis. Two possible pathways are shown: causal discovery approaches (blue), which aim to identify the existence of causal relationships when pre-existing knowledge is low, and causal inference approaches (yellow), which aim to quantify the direction and magnitude of causal effects when pre-existing knowledge is high. The gray feedback loop on the right highlights the iterative refinement of causal analyses based on assessments of the plausibility of causal assumptions.

So, y'all have heard me going on about #causalinference in #ecology a lot. Now our big synthetic guide "Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research" is out! Led by Hannah Correia & Paul Ferraro, it's a great walk-through for all! 🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Whitefish have declined because of invasive species and climate change-fueled loss of winter ice cover on the Great Lakes. Now scientists are testing whether rivers can serve as spawning refuges, incl... Whitefish have declined because of invasive species and climate change-fueled loss of winter ice cover on the Great Lakes. Now scientists are testing whether rivers can serve as spawning refuges, incl...

Latest on restoration of tributary-spawning Lake Whitefish. #GreatLakes #PureMichigan
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Long‐Term Records Reveal Temperature‐Driven Nutrient Limitation and Predict Intensified Algal Blooms in Global Lakes

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Barriers decouple population dynamics of riverine fish, and asynchrony of subpopulations promotes stability within fragments Abstract. The spatial synchrony framework suggests that asynchrony among subpopulations in different branches of a river network should stabilize the metap

Barriers decouple population dynamics of riverine fish, and asynchrony of subpopulations promotes stability within fragments. Proc Biol Sci 1 June 2025; 292 (2049): 20250429. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More - bioGraphic In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish.

Man, on top of everything else that’s plaguing salmon, now we have to worry about… vitamin-B deficiency related to excess predation on anchovies?!

www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...

Inferring activity patterns of aquatic animals from single‐receiver acoustic telemetry setups Acoustic telemetry has become an essential tool for studying activity patterns of animals in aquatic environments. Activity is typically recorded using transmitters with integrated sensors or dens...

Inferring activity patterns of aquatic animals from single-receiver acoustic telemetry setups. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16, 2931–2944. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) kelt rheotaxis and position choice are influenced by flow velocity and turbulence in a regulated river The migratory behaviour of Atlantic salmon kelts is poorly understood. Due to the Atlantic salmon's considerable socio-economic and ecological importance, their precipitous population abundance decli...

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) kelt rheotaxis and position choice are influenced by flow velocity and turbulence in a regulated river. Journal of Fish Biology, 1–17. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Domestication‐Admixed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Establish a Productive Population in the Wild We document colonisation of a river by highly (average 37%) domestication-admixed salmon using genomic and phenotypic data. The resulting population now displays freshwater and marine productivity wi....

Domestication-Admixed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Establish a Productive Population in the Wild. Ecology Letters 29, no. 2: e70319. doi.org/10.1111/ele.....

Unlocking natural history collections to improve eDNA reference databases and biodiversity monitoring Abstract. Biodiversity changes due to human activities highlight the need for efficient biodiversity monitoring approaches. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metaba

Unlocking natural history collections to improve eDNA reference databases and biodiversity monitoring, BioScience, Volume 75, Issue 12, December 2025, Pages 1083–1095, doi.org/10.1093/bios...

eDNA metabarcoding provides scalable and continuous biodiversity monitoring across the tree of life. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Natural Analogues of Climate Change Can Reveal Fish Responses Across Multiple Levels of Biological Organisation Anthropogenic climate change is threatening ecosystem functionality and biodiversity globally. While significant research has been dedicated to understanding how organisms may respond to future clima....

Natural Analogues of Climate Change Can Reveal Fish Responses Across Multiple Levels of Biological Organisation. Fish and Fisheries 1–14. doi.org/10.1111/faf....

Identifying knowledge gaps about context dependency in freshwater species invasions The abiotic template of freshwater ecosystems is being altered by human activity on a global scale, often promoting the establishment of new invasive taxa and increasing the likelihood of facilitatio...

Identifying knowledge gaps about context dependency in freshwater species invasions. Oikos e11537. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Warming causes modest increase in the consumptive demands of invasive Northern Pike (Esox lucius) in Alaska freshwaters. Biol Invasions 28, 55 (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s105...