{"id":1937,"date":"2014-06-11T19:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T00:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2014-06-11T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T00:03:36","slug":"pacific-salmon-species-benefit-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/pacific-salmon-species-benefit-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific salmon species benefit each other<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1928\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14196848689_34e862f985_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1928\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1928\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14196848689_34e862f985_b.jpg\" alt=\"A new study suggests that juvenile coho salmon like these may benefit from the nutrients left behind by previous generations of pink and chum salmon. (Photo credit: Simon Fraser University Public Affairs and Media Relations, via flickr)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14196848689_34e862f985_b.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14196848689_34e862f985_b-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study suggests that juvenile coho salmon like these may benefit from the nutrients left behind by previous generations of pink and chum salmon. (Photo credit: Simon Fraser University Public Affairs and Media Relations, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sfupamr\/14196848689\/in\/set-72157645080064321\">flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The number of juvenile coho salmon in a stream can be up to three times higher if pink or chum salmon were there the season before, according to a new paper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Juvenile coho have been known to scavenge the carcasses or eggs of their cousins, but most of the coho in the latest study emerged in the spring, and had no contact with these sources of food. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The authors suggest that nutrients from dying pink or chum salmon may fertilize river ecosystems which benefit the subsequent generations of coho.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0098951\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">John Reynolds, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Michelle Nelson, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of juvenile coho salmon in a stream can be up to three times higher if pink or chum salmon were there the season before, according to a new paper. Juvenile coho have been known to scavenge the carcasses or eggs of their cousins, but most of the coho in the latest study emerged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,113,125,1445,171,215,917],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-british-columbia","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/14196848689_34e862f985_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}