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How the animals found their places : pattern detection, experimentation, and epistemology in a high desert stream fish assemblage

Creator:

White, Seth Michael

Abstract:

I examined the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors in structuring redband trout Oncorhynchus mykiss distributions in the South Fork John Day. I first examined the relationship between the biological traits of the fish assemblage and riparian-geomorphic features in context of prevailing theories of stream ecology stemming from the...

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Dissertation

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. Although salmon, steelhead, and trout have evolved over millennia in this geologically- active region and