Stream Food Web Response to a Salmon Carcass Analogue Form

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the sailor sea marine survival project showed that several factors were critical in controlling marine survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead for juvenile chinook and coho we learned that climate change and changes in nutrient inputs have altered the timing quality and quantity of food available for them to eat in marine waters it turns out zooplankton are really important zooplankton are these animals that not many people get to see or even hear about and they're just so important at the base of the food chain to everything else all the way up to orcas for this net we are only towing in the upper 30 meters because that's where we think that even now salmon are feeding during the day our lab has been involved in the salish city marine survival project since 2014 for the zooplankton monitoring project we have groups all around puget sound down from south sound all the way up to the san juan islands and they collect zooplankton for us about every two weeks we actually don't know a lot