WaterTalks: Salmon-fuelled Ecosystems of the Great Bear Rainforest - John Reynolds
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Channel: uwaterloo · 2016 · Education
John Reynolds is a professor of aquatic ecology and conservation and holds the Tom Buell BC Leadership Chair in aquatic conservation at Simon Fraser University. This talk was presented on Nov. 26, 2015 as part of the Water Institute’s ongoing WaterTalks series. British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest is one of the last truly wild ecosystems in North America. A prominent feature of this coastal rainforest is the interwoven connections between salmon and large carnivores such as bears and wolves. Nutrients from salmon carcasses left behind by these predators can be traced through freshwater and terrestrial food webs, with impacts ranging from aquatic insects to streamside plants and birds. Reynolds explores both ecological and conservation implications of these connections between forest, rivers and the sea.
