The Preferred Temperatures of the Brown Bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus, with Reference to its Orientation to the Discharge Canal of a Nuclear Power Plant
作者:
F.Paul Richards,
RichardM. Ibara,
期刊:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
(Taylor Available online 1978)
卷期:
Volume 107,
issue 2
页码: 288-294
ISSN:0002-8487
年代: 1978
DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1978)107<288:TPTOTB>2.0.CO;2
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Brown bullheads acclimated to temperatures between 3.5 and 28 C and tested in a thermal gradient trough usually preferred water temperatures above their respective acclimation temperatures. Fish tended to gravitate toward higher temperatures the longer they remained in the gradient; final preferendum was 27.3 C. Laboratory results are consistent with observed movements of Connecticut River brown bullheads into the thermal discharge canal of a power plant during autumn. It appears from both laboratory and field studies that a “temperature trap” keeps bullheads in the warm discharge canal during winter. However, brown bullheads leave the canal in spring sooner than would be predicted from temperature preference data alone.
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