Washington: In accordance with new research, climate change has resulted in early spring blooms for wildflowers and ocean plankton, but the effects on salmon migration are more convoluted. In a new study published in the journal Nature, Ecology & Evolution, Simon Fraser University (SFU) researcher Sam Wilson gathered a group of varied partners from throughout North America to assemble the world's largest dataset on juvenile salmon migration timing. The collection comprises 66 populations from Oregon through British Columbia to Alaska. Each dataset was at least 20 years lengthy, with the oldest reaching back to 1951. Only wild salmon, not hatchery salmon, were included.
