• Behaviour and survival of wild Atlantic salmon Salmo salar captured and released while surveillance angling for escaped farmed salmon 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Havn, Torgeir Børresen; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Liberg, Egil; Cooke, Steven J.; Uglem, Ingebrigt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In many Norwegian rivers, spawning stocks are surveyed for escaped farmed salmon with surveillance fishing by rod and reel after the recreational angling season. However, the benefits of surveillance fishing depend on the ...
    • Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement 

      Ran, Nathan; Monk, Christopher T.; Arlinghaus, Robert; Adam, Timo; Alós, Josep; Assaf, Michael; Baktoft, Henrik; Beardsworth, Christine E.; Bertram, Michael G.; Bijleveld, Allert I.; Brodin, Tomas; Brooks, Jill L.; Campos-Candela, Andrea; Cooke, Steven J.; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Gupte, Pratik R.; Harel, Roi; Hellstrom, Gustav; Jeltsch, Florian; Killen, Shaun S.; Klefoth, Thomas; Langrock, Roland; Lennox, Robert; Lourie, Emmanuel; Madden, Joah R.; Orchan, Yotam; Pauwels, Ine S.; Říha, Milan; Roeleke, Manuel; Schlägel, Ulrike E.; Shohami, David; Signer, Johannes; Toledo, Sivan; Vilk, Ohad; Westrelin, Samuel; Whiteside, Mark A.; Jarić, Ivan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Understanding animal movement is essential to elucidate how animals interact, survive, and thrive in a changing world. Recent technological advances in data collection and management have transformed our understanding of ...
    • Bioenergetic consequences of warming rivers to adult Atlantic salmon Salmo salar during their spawning migration 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Eliason, Erika J.; Havn, Torgeir Børresen; Johansen, Martin Rognli; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Cooke, Steven J.; Diserud, Ola Håvard; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Farrell, Anthony P.; Uglem, Ingebrigt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      1. Climate change poses a challenge to wild fishes, yet little is known about the behavioural use and metabolic consequences of thermally heterogeneous water encountered by wild salmon during their energetically demanding ...
    • Biotic and abiotic determinants of the ascent behaviour of adult Atlantic salmon transiting passable waterfalls 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Diserud, Ola Håvard; Økland, Finn; Cooke, Steven J.; Aasestad, Ingar; Forseth, Torbjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The spawning migration of Atlantic salmon has been characterized by tracking salmon carrying electronic tags as they ascend rivers, but still little is known about how natural obstacles such as waterfalls influence migratory ...
    • Consequences of “natural” disasters on aquatic life and habitats 

      Cooke, Steven J.; Galassi, Diana M. P.; Gillanders, Bronwyn M.; Landsman, Sean J.; Hammerschlag, Neil; Gallagher, Austin J.; Eliason, Erika J.; Kraft, Clifford E.; Taylor, Mark K.; Crisafulli, Charlie M.; Shugar, Dan H.; Lennox, Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      “Natural” disasters (also known as geophysical disasters) involve physical processes that have a direct or indirect impact on humans. These events occur rapidly and may have severe consequences for resident flora and fauna ...
    • Digital fisheries data in the Internet age: Emerging tools for research and monitoring using online data in recreational fisheries 

      Lennox, Robert; Sbragaglia, Valerio; Vollset, Knut; Sortland, Lene K.; McClenachan, Loren; Jarić, Ivan; Guckian, Meaghan L.; Ferter, Keno; Danylchuk, Andy J.; Cooke, Steven J.; Arlinghaus, Robert; Twardek, William M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Recreational fisheries are diverse in scale, scope, and participation worldwide, constituting an important ecosystem service of marine and freshwater ecosystems. Management of these socio-ecological systems is challenged ...
    • Does Catch-and-Release Angling Alter the Behavior and Fate of Adult Atlantic Salmon During Upriver Migration? 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Uglem, Ingebrigt; Cooke, Steven J.; Næsje, Tor; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Havn, Torgeir Børresen; Ulvan, Eva Marita; Solem, Øyvind; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      To reproduce, Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar return to freshwater rivers and migrate upriver to spawning areas. This migration is the basis for recreational fisheries, which for conservation reasons are increasingly characterized ...
    • Environmental evidence in action: on the science and practice of evidence synthesis and evidence-based decision-making 

      Cooke, Steven J.; Cook, Carly N.; Nguyen, Vivian M.; Walsh, Jessica C.; Young, Nathan; Cvitanovic, Christopher; Grainger, Matthew; Randall, Nicola P.; Muir, Matt; Kadykalo, Andrew N.; Monk, Kathryn A.; Pullin, Andrew S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In civil society we expect that policy and management decisions will be made using the best available evidence. Yet, it is widely known that there are many barriers that limit the extent to which that occurs. One way to ...
    • European eel Anguilla anguilla compromise speed for safety in the early marine spawning migration 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Økland, Finn; Mitamura, Hiromichi; Cooke, Steven J.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      There are substantial benefits to potential fitness conferred to animals that undertake migrations. However, animals must make compromises to maximize survival and compensate for the risks associated with long-distance ...
    • Global trends in aquatic animal tracking with acoustic telemetry 

      Matley, Jordan K.; Klinard, Natalie V.; Martins, Ana P. Barbosa; Aarestrup, Kim; Aspillaga, Eneko; Cooke, Steven J.; Cowley, Paul D.; Heupel, Michelle R.; Lowe, Christopher G.; Lowerre-Barbieri, Susan K.; Mitamura, Hiromichi; Moore, Jean-Sebastien; Simpfendorfer, Colin A.; Stokesbury, Michael J.W.; Taylor, Matthew D.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Vandergoot, Christopher S.; Fisk, Aaron T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Acoustic telemetry (AT) is a rapidly evolving technique used to track the movements of aquatic animals. As the capacity of AT research expands it is important to optimize its relevance to management while still pursuing ...
    • Influence of gear switching on recapture of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in catch-and- release fisheries 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Diserud, Ola Håvard; Cooke, Steven J.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Solem, Øyvind; Havn, Torgeir Børresen; Uglem, Ingebrigt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Anglers that release Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in recreational fisheries do so with the intention that the fish will survive and contribute to succeeding generations. In some instances, salmon that are released may be ...
    • On the relevance of animal behavior to the management and conservation of fishes and fisheries 

      Cooke, Steven J.; Auld, Heather L.; Birnie-Gauvin, Kim; Elvidge, Chris K.; Piczak, Morgan L.; Twardek, William M.; Raby, Graham D.; Brownscombe, Jacob W.; Midwood, Jonathan D.; Lennox, Robert; Madliger, Christine; Wilson, Alexander D. M.; Binder, Thomas R.; Schreck, Carl B.; McLaughlin, Robert L.; Grant, James; Muir, Andrew M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There are many syntheses on the role of animal behavior in understanding and mitigating conservation threats for wildlife. That body of work has inspired the development of a new discipline called conservation behavior. ...
    • One Hundred Pressing Questions on the Future of Global Fish Migration Science, Conservation, and Policy 

      Lennox, Robert J.; Paukert, Craig P.; Aarestrup, Kim; Auger-Méthé, Marie; Baumgartner, Lee; Birnie-Gauvin, Kim; Bøe, Kristin; Brink, Kerry; Brownscombe, Jacob W.; Chen, Yushun; Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Eliason, Erika J.; Filous, Alexander; Gillanders, Bronwyn M.; Helland, Ingeborg Palm; Horodysky, Andrij Z.; Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie R.; Lowerre-Barbieri, Susan K.; Lucas, Martyn C.; Martins, Eduardo G.; Murchie, Karen J.; Pompeu, Paulo S.; Power, Michael; Raghavan, Rajeev; Rahel, Frank J.; Secor, David; Thiem, Jason D.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Ueda, Hiroshi; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Cooke, Steven J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Migration is a widespread but highly diverse component of many animal life histories. Fish migrate throughout the world’s oceans, within lakes and rivers, and between the two realms, transporting matter, energy, and other ...
    • Positioning aquatic animals with acoustic transmitters 

      Lennox, Robert; Aarestrup, Kim; Alós, Josep; Arlinghaus, Robert; Aspillaga, Eneko; Bertram, Michael G.; Birnie-Gauvin, Kim; Brodin, Tomas; Cooke, Steven J.; Dahlmo, Lotte Svengård; Dhellemmes, Félicie; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Hellström, Gustav; Hershey, Henry; Holbrook, Christopher; Klefoth, Thomas; Lowerre-Barbieri, Susan; Monk, Christopher T.; Nilsen, Cecilie Iden; Pauwels, Ine; Pickholtz, Renanel; Prchalová, Marie; Reubens, Jan; Říha, Milan; Villegas-Ríos, David; Vollset, Knut; Westrelin, Samuel; Baktoft, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      1. Geolocating aquatic animals with acoustic tags has been ongoing for decades, relying on the detection of acoustic signals at multiple receivers with known positions to calculate a 2D or 3D position, and ultimately ...
    • A role for lakes in revealing the nature of animal movement using high dimensional telemetry systems 

      Lennox, Robert; Westrelin, Samuel; Souza, Allan T.; Šmejkal, Marek; Říha, Milan; Prchalová, Marie; Nathan, Ran; Koeck, Barbara; Killen, Shaun S.; Jarić, Ivan; Gjelland, Karl Øystein; Hollins, Jack; Hellstrom, Gustav; Hansen, Henry Arne; Cooke, Steven J.; Boukal, David; Brooks, Jill L.; Brodin, Tomas; Baktoft, Henrik; Adam, Timo; Arlinghaus, Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Movement ecology is increasingly relying on experimental approaches and hypothesis testing to reveal how, when, where, why, and which animals move. Movement of megafauna is inherently interesting but many of the fundamental ...
    • The roles of humans and apex predators in sustaining ecosystem structure and function: Contrast, complementarity and coexistence 

      Lennox, Robert; Brownscombe, Jacob W.; Darimont, Chris; Horodysky, Andrij; Levi, Taal; Raby, Graham D.; Cooke, Steven J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In nearly every ecosystem, human predators (hunters and fishers) exploit animals at extraordinarily high rates, as well as target different age classes and phenotypes, compared to other apex predators. Demographically ...
    • The effect of catch-and-release angling at high water temperatures on behaviour and survival of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar during spawning migration 

      Havn, Torgeir Børresen; Uglem, Ingebrigt; Solem, Øyvind; Cooke, Steven J.; Whoriskey, Frederick G.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      In this study, behaviour and survival following catch-and-release (C&R) angling was investigated in wild Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (n = 75) angled on sport fishing gear in the River Otra in southern Norway at water ...
    • The future of fish passage science, engineering, and practice 

      Silva, Ana T.; Lucas, Martyn C.; Castro-Santos, Theodore; Katopodis, Christos; Baumgartner, Lee J.; Thiem, Jason D.; Aarestrup, Kim; Pompeu, Paulo S.; O'Brien, Gordon C.O.; Braun, Douglas C.; Burnett, Nicholas J.; Zhu, David Z.; Fjeldstad, Hans-Petter; Forseth, Torbjørn; Rajaratnam, Nallamuthu; Williams, John G.; Cooke, Steven J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    • Tracking animals in freshwater with electronic tags: past, present and future 

      Cooke, Steven J.; Midwood, Jonathan D.; Thiem, Jason D.; Klimley, Peter; Lucas, Martyn C.; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Eiler, John H.; Holbrook, Chris; Ebner, Brendan C (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Considerable technical developments over the past half century have enabled widespread application of electronic tags to the study of animals in the wild, including in freshwater environments. We review the constraints ...
    • Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management 

      Downey, Harriet; Amano, Tatsuya; Cadotte, Mark; Cook, Carly N.; Cooke, Steven J.; Haddaway, Neal R.; Jones, Julia P. G.; Littlewood, Nick; Walsh, Jessica C.; Abrahams, Mark I.; Adum, Gilbert; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Alves, Jose A.; Antwis, Rachael E.; Arellano, Eduardo C.; Axmacher, Jan; Barclay, Holly; Batty, Lesley; Benítez-López, Ana; Bennett, Joseph R.; Berg, Maureen J.; Bertolino, Sandro; Biggs, Duan; Bolam, Friederike C.; Bray, Tim; Brook, BarryW.; Bull, Joseph W.; Burivalova, Zuzana; Cabeza, Mar; Chauvenet, Alienor L. M.; Christie, Alec P.; Cole, Lorna; Cotton, Alison J.; Cotton, Sam; Cousins, Sara A.O.; Craven, Dylan; Cresswell, Will; Cusack, Jeremy J.; Dalrymple, Sarah E.; Davies, Zoe G.; Diaz, Anita; Dodd, Jennifer A.; Felton, Adam; Fleishman, Erica; Gardner, Charlie J.; Garside, Ruth; Ghoddousi, Arash; Gilroy, James J.; Gill, David A.; Gill, Jennifer A.; Glew, Louise; Grainger, Matthew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      1. To be effective, the next generation of conservation practitioners andmanagers need to be critical thinkers with a deep understanding of how to make evidence-based decisions and of the value of evidence synthesis. 2. ...