Movement and Telemetry
Articles from the Lab
Thayer, D.*, Ruppert, J.L.W., Watkinson, D., Clayton, T. and M.S. Poesch. (2017) Identifying temporal bottlenecks for the conservation of large-bodied fishes: Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fluvescens) show highly restricted movement and habitat-use overwinter. Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 194-205.
Neufeld, K.*, Watkinson, D., and Poesch, M.S. (2016) The effect of hydrologic alteration on capture efficiency of freshwater fishes in a highly modified Prairie stream: Implications for bio-monitoring programs. River Research and Applications 32: 975-983.
Poesch, M.S. and D.A. Jackson (2012) Impact of species-specific dispersal and regional stochasticity on estimates of population viability in stream metapopulations. Landscape Ecology 27: 405-416.
Schwalb, A.J., Cottenie, K., Poesch, M.S., and J. Ackerman (2011) Dispersal limitation in unionid mussels and implications for their recovery. Freshwater Biology 56: 1509-1518.
Schwalb, A.J., Poesch, M.S., and J. Ackerman (2011) Movement of logperch—the obligate host fish for endangered snuffbox mussels: implications for mussel dispersal. Aquatic Sciences 73: 223-231.
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![VEMCO receivers used for telemetry study of Lake Sturgeon](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/DSC_0011.jpg)
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![Enough said.](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/DSC_0174.jpg)
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![Our study species, Lake Sturgeon](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/IMG_6300.jpg)
![Mark Poesch with study species, Lake Sturgeon](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/IMG_6304.jpg)
![Retrieving data!](https://poeschlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2018/09/DSCN1449.jpg)