Connectivity conundrum in practice

Kings in the North: Lake Sturgeon Recovery in the Red River YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

This documentary needs more views: Nick Klundt along with local legends like Lars Aadland tell the incredible story of Lake Sturgeon extirpation & recovery in Minnesota ❤️ youtu.be/X80Y8NMkozM?...

Cool! By the way, I appreciated your paper on the loss of wise old animals, in fact I’ll be mentioning it during a talk tomorrow re Bigmouth Buffalo

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Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a new UN report details The most comprehensive tally of how migrating animals are faring looks at more than 1,000 land and aquatic species and aims to find ways to protect them.

Migratory fish species are in drastic decline, a UN report details. 🧪🌎🐟🌿🦑 www.sciencenews.org/article/migr...

Bigmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) migratory behaviour and seasonal home range overlap are functions of geographic space in a fragmented riverscape In temperate rivers, where environmental conditions vary seasonally, many fishes migrate among summer, spawning, and winter habitats. Dams disrupt these migrations, limiting access to habitat and pote...

Congratulations to Marshall Stuart of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for defending his MSc yesterday afternoon.
Marshall is the rockstar who, alongside Amanda Caskenette, was behind a lot of the analyses in this recent Bigmouth Buffalo paper 👇
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

Ha, absolutely! Incredible to think how some Buffalo could have been migrating in the river before St. Andrews Lock and Dam was even built 🤯

Bigmouth Buffalo a right up there too! Here’s one with lead author Sarah Glowa just downstream of St. Andrews Lock and Dam

Thunder pumper!

Exploring the extensive movements and home range of one of North America’s most mobile fish: the freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens) - Environmental Biology of Fishes Freshwater drum Aplodinotus grunniens are a unique and ubiquitous freshwater species of the family Sciaenidae. Despite the species’ wide distribution and unique biogeography, life history, and behavio...

New paper on an underappreciated but utterly fascinating fish: the Freshwater Drum

Did you know they will swim hundreds of km/month?!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Twitter is polluted. So here I am, ready to read and write about science 🫡