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- Title
Size-related changes in habitat selection by larval grayling (Thymallus thymallus L.).
- Authors
Nykänen, M.; Huusko, A.
- Abstract
Abstract – In a medium-sized river in northern Finland, larval grayling shifted with growth from shallow habitats with slow velocities, fine substrata and abundant vegetation cover to deeper sites with swifter velocities, coarse substrata and sparse vegetation cover within 3 weeks. Small (17–21 mm) larvae preferred water depths 10–30 cm, substrata dominated by mud or sand (<2 mm), 10–70% vegetation cover and water velocities <10 cm · s-1 . Middle-sized (22–25 mm) larvae preferred 30–90 cm depths, sandy substrata, <40% vegetation cover and velocities <10 cm · s-1 . Large (26–31 mm) larvae preferred >50 cm depths, substrata dominated by sand or boulders, <20% vegetation cover and 10–50 cm · s-1 velocities. The strict habitat requirements of the smallest larval group suggest that these habitats, in particular, are important to the early survival of grayling.
- Subjects
GRAYLING; FISH larvae; HABITAT selection
- Publication
Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 2003, Vol 12, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0906-6691
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0633.2003.00013.x