The sound of migration: exploring data sonification as a means of interpreting multivariate salmon movement datasets.

ABSTRACT: The migration of Pacific salmon is an important part of functioning freshwater ecosystems, but as populations have decreased and ecological conditions have changed, so have migration patterns. Understanding how the environment, and human impacts, change salmon migration behavior requires observing migration at small temporal and spatial scales across large geographic areas. Studying these detailed fish movements is particularly important for one threatened population of Chinook salmon in the Snake River of Idaho whose juvenile behavior may be rapidly evolving in response to dams and anthropogenic impacts. However, exploring movement data sets of large numbers of salmon can present challenges due to the difficulty of visualizing the multivariate, time-series datasets. Previous research indi

SUBMITTER: Hegg JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5842366 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature