John Piccolo presented a poster about Klarälven salmon at the recent international symposium “Advances in the Population Ecology of Stream Salmonids – IV” in Girona, Cataluña, Spain. The poster can be seen online here:

John also gave a presentation about conservation biology of salmon and trout, focusing on a recent debate on conservation ethics summarized by Tallis et als (2014) article in Nature Communications. He also recommends Holmes Rolston IIIs “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”  for more reading on conservation ethics.

Just nu pågår det internationella symposiumet  “Advances in the Population Ecology of Stream Salmonids – IV” i Girona, Katalonien, Spanien. Allt från livshistoria och genetik till restaurering och beteende ekologi diskuteras.  Från Karlstads Universitet deltar Eva Bergman och John Piccolo. Eva Bergman presenterar “Woody debris in boreal streams: Effects on brown trout foraging and behavior” och Jack Piccolos presentation har titeln “Understanding Atlantic salmon smolt production in a large regulated river: A case study from Klarälven, Sweden”.