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Thermal refuges and citizen science
February 5, 2025 - Description: With climate change, heat waves and low water episodes are observed more and more frequently. During heat waves, salmon is thermally stressed and needs areas where the river is...
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Development of methods for monitoring and analyzing salmon river thermics
February 5, 2025 - Description: Thanks to the deployment of numerous thermographs along salmon rivers by FQSA, the organization has now a continuous important quantity of data. FQSA intends to analyze the data to...
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Mapping riparian morphology change for critical habitat conservation and watershed management planning
February 5, 2025 - Description: This applied research project aims to evaluate climate change impacts relating to watershed degradation of salmon habitats with a focus on the culturally significant endangered inner Bay of Fundy...
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WATERSHADE Phase 2
February 4, 2025 - Description: This project consists in implementing actions resulting from the implementation plan developed in Phase 1 of the Watershade project. The thermal refuges policy and the decision tree will be...
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Development of a modelling framework to quantify cumulative effects of land use and climate change on juvenile Atlantic salmon
February 3, 2025 - Description: This project builds upon a FCAS project entitled “Development and implementation of a modelling tool to investigate how freshwater ecosystems influence wild Atlantic salmon populations”. In this initial project,...
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Importance of the height of riparian vegetation for thermal regimes of Atlantic salmon rivers to strategically inform restoration decisions.
February 3, 2025 - Description: The project proposes to model the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of salmon rivers as a function of basin topography, riparian vegetation characteristics, local stream reach orientation,...
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Consequences of interbreeding between farmed and wild salmon under climate change: effects on thermal tolerance
February 3, 2025 - Description: The proposed research aims to assess the consequences of interbreeding between farmed and wild salmon, particularly in terms of thermal tolerance. Introgression of farm genes into wild populations may...
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Consequences of interbreeding between farmed and wild salmon under climate change: effects on thermal tolerance
June 26, 2023 - Description: The proposed research aims to assess the consequences of interbreeding between farmed and wild salmon, particularly in terms of thermal tolerance. Introgression of farm genes into wild populations may...
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Climate change vulnerability assessment framework to support the conservation of Atlantic salmon in rivers
July 14, 2022 - Vulnerability of Atlantic salmon to climate change has been assessed on a provincial scale in Newfoundland and Labrador [19,20]. The study found that Atlantic salmon have the highest exposure and...