Swim Performance
Articles from the Lab
Neufeld, K.*, Watkinson, D., Tierney, K. and M.S. Poesch. (2018) Incorporating connectivity in measures of habitat suitability to assess impacts of hydrologic alteration to stream fish. Diversity and Distributions 24: 593-604.
Veillard, M.F.*, Ruppert, J.L.W.*, Tierney, K., Watkinson, D., and M.S. Poesch. (2017) Comparative swimming and station-holding ability of the threatened Rocky Mountain Sculpin (Cottus sp.) from four hydrologically distinct rivers. Conservation Physiology 5: 1-12.
![Swim chamber and respirometer in Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation Laboratory (PI: Mark Poesch)](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Swim-chamber.jpg)
![Aquatics Facility at the University of Alberta](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Swim-chamber-setup-1.jpg)
![Aquatics Facility at the University of Alberta](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Aquatics-facility.jpg)
![Milk River under augmented flow](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Milk_augmented-e1537837792379.jpg)
![Milk River under natural flow](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Milk_natural-e1537837821825.jpg)
![Rocky Mountain Sculpin from four distinct flow regimes tested for swim performance](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/Morphology-1.jpg)