Silver eel responses to live and dead silver eel odors at the U.S. Geological Survey Wellsboro Lab in 2015
Dates
Publication Date
2017-05-25
Start Date
2015-10-27
End Date
2015-11-20
Citation
Schmucker, A. K., Johnson, N. S., Gailbraith, H. S., and Li, W., 2017, Silver eel responses to live and dead silver eel odors at the U.S. Geological Survey Wellsboro Lab in 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://doi.org/10.5066/F7NP22X3.
Summary
This is a tabular data set that contains morphological and experimental data for a study testing if silver stage American eel respond to each other's odor. Inside a laboratory flume, downstream-swimming eels were exposed to both live (putative attractant) and dead (putative repellent) conspecific washings to determine whether their trajectory of downstream movement, level of activity, or time spent inside targeted areas of the arena changed after exposure. One CSV file contains eel morphological data and the other CSV file describes behavioral responses.
Summary
This is a tabular data set that contains morphological and experimental data for a study testing if silver stage American eel respond to each other's odor. Inside a laboratory flume, downstream-swimming eels were exposed to both live (putative attractant) and dead (putative repellent) conspecific washings to determine whether their trajectory of downstream movement, level of activity, or time spent inside targeted areas of the arena changed after exposure. One CSV file contains eel morphological data and the other CSV file describes behavioral responses.
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silver-eel-responses_final.xml Original FGDC Metadata
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Related External Resources
Type: Related Primary Publication
Schmucker, A.K., Johnson, N.S., Galbraith, H.S. et al. An evaluation of silver-stage American Eel conspecific chemical cueing during outmigration. Environ Biol Fish 100, 851–864 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-017-0611-4
American Eel Anguilla rostrata abundance has declined in recent decades, in part because sexually maturing, silver-stage adults, outmigrating from freshwater to oceanic spawning grounds, encounter migratory blockades or perish when passing through active hydroelectric turbines. To help improve downstream passage effectiveness and increase survival rates, silver-stage American Eel conspecific chemical cueing during outmigration was characterized using a new type of bioassay.
