Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• Preparing the next generation of fisheries professionals

  Published on June 28, 2016
  Here we describe six action items that we believe can help enhance fisheries education and effectively prepare students for successful careers in fisheries.

• Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

  Published on June 16, 2016
  We report on China’s first national ecosystem assessment.

• Climate change and fisheries education

  Published on June 3, 2016
  As climate change intensifies, we believe it is imperative that students and young professionals acquire basic and applied knowledge of climate change as it relates inland fisheries.

• Otoliths as elemental tracers of walleye environmental history: insights for interjurisdictional fisheries management

  Published on May 20, 2016
  Understanding fish natal origins and movement is important for managing interjurisdictional fisheries.

• Sympatric Polymorphism in Lake Trout: The Coexistence of Multiple Shallow-Water Morphotypes in Great Bear Lake

  Published on May 5, 2016
  This study examined the polymorphism of Lake Trout inhabiting the shallow-water zones (≤30 m) of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories.

• Life history differences between fat and lean lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) morphs in Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  Life history characteristics were compared between fat and lean morphs of lake charr Salvelinus namaycush in Great Slave Lake, Canada, to determine if differences may reflect effects of resource polymorphism.

• Fatty acid signatures and stomach contents of four sympatric Lake Trout: assessment of trophic patterns among morphotypes in Great Bear Lake.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  To investigate diet partitioning as a potential explanatory mechanism for this diversification, we assessed trophic characteristics and relationships among four sympatric shallow‐water morphs of Lake Trout via analyses of fatty acids and stomach contents.

• Challenge to the model for lake charr evolution: Co-existence of shallow- and deep-water morphs in a small postglacial lake.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  Morphology, diet, life history, and genetics were examined to demonstrate the existence of morphs and determine the potential influence of evolutionary processes that led to their formation or maintenance.

• Polymorphism in Lake Trout in Great Bear Lake: intra-lake morphological diversification at two spatial scales. Biological Journal of Linnean Biology Society

  Published on May 5, 2016
  This paper focused on geographical patterns of morphological differentiation within lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) to describe two levels of intralake diversification in Great Bear Lake.

• Evolution and origin of sympatric shallow-water morphotypes of Lake Trout, Salvelinus namaycush, in Canada's Great Bear Lake

  Published on May 5, 2016
  Here, we assess microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA variation among Lake Trout from the five distinct arms of GBL, and also from locations outside of this system to evaluate hypotheses concerning the evolution of morphological variation in this species.

• Stable isotopic analysis of four Lake Trout morphotypes in Great Bear lake (NT): Coexistence of multiple trophic generalists.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  To better understand how resources may be partitioned in a northern system that supports intraspecific diversity of Lake Trout, trophic niches were compared among four shallow-water morphotypes in Great Bear Lake.

• Genetic Relationships among Smelt, Genus Osmerus

  Published on April 11, 2016
  The genus Os­merus is represented by anadromous and land­ locked forms in the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans and their drainages.

• Inheritance of microsatellite loci in the polyploid lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

  Published on April 11, 2016
  Inheritance in the expression of amplicons for four microsatellite primer pairs was determined using 10 families created from gametes of wild lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)

• A CONCEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: AN APPLICATION TO UNICORNS

  Published on April 11, 2016
  Natural resource management is a dynamic, goal-oriented process that functions within a management environment and is guided by a team that represents many disciplines. The management environment is a combination of cultural, economic, political, and e

• The MSU Fenske Fellowship: fresh perspectives on fish, management, and law

  Published on April 7, 2016
  Professionals from diverse backgrounds must collaborate for the management of fisheries and aquatic ecosystems to be effective. These professionals include researchers, managers, and policymakers.

• Influences of environmental variation on anadromous Arctic charr from the Hornaday River, NWT.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  In this study, associations were found between temporal environmental variation and Arctic charr length- and weight-based growth using data from fish captured in the Hornaday River fishery.

• Latitudinal variation in growth among Arctic charr in eastern North America: evidence for countergradient variation?

  Published on May 5, 2016
  Biological data from 66 populations of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, from eastern North America were analysed to test the applicability of the countergradient hypothesis as an explanation of differences in seasonally adjusted growth rates

• Working with Northern Communities to Build Collaborative Research Partnerships: Perspectives from Early Career Researchers.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  The growing impetus for local community involvement in northern research result has been efforts to form community-collaborative research programs across disciplines ranging from health and environmental sciences to social sciences.

• Life-history variation among four shallow-water morphotypes of Lake Trout from Great Bear Lake, NT.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  Phenotypic variation within populations is common in many salmonids, especially when inhabiting northern postglacial systems.

• Climate change impacts on freshwater fishes: A Canadian perspective.

  Published on May 5, 2016
  Here we provide a perspective from the Canadian Aquatic Resources Section on the impacts of climate change to freshwater fishes.