{"id":2222,"date":"2012-11-07T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:40:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:40:58","slug":"rising-stream-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2012\/11\/07\/rising-stream-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising stream temperatures could spell trouble for salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published study by researchers at Oregon State University and two federal agencies concludes that high temperatures coupled with lower flows in many Northwest streams is creating increasingly extreme conditions that could spell trouble for salmon and other organisms.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the professional journal <em>Hydrobiologia<\/em>, was funded and coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey and the research branch of the U.S. Forest Service. It points to climate change as the primary cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe highest temperatures for streams generally occur in August, while lowest flows take place in the early fall,\u201d said Ivan Arismendi, a research professor in OSU\u2019s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. \u201cEach period is important because it is a time of potentially high stress on the organisms that live in the stream. If they occur closer in time \u2013 or together \u2013 they could create double trouble that may be greater than their combined singular effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/ua\/ncs\/archives\/2012\/nov\/study-high-stream-temperatures-low-flow-create-potential-%E2%80%9Cdouble-trouble%E2%80%9D\">Read the complete news release <\/a>from OSU News &amp; Research Communications<\/li>\n<li>Related Oregon Sea Grant research: <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.oregonstate.edu\/research\/modeling-myxozoan-disease-2\">Establishing Watershed Models for Predicting the Effects of Climate Change<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly published study by researchers at Oregon State University and two federal agencies concludes that high temperatures coupled with lower flows in many Northwest streams is creating increasingly extreme conditions that could spell trouble for salmon and other organisms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/2012\/11\/07\/rising-stream-temperatures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1223968,1320,309,1223980,1223970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-environment","category-fisheries","category-research","category-salmon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64BdL-zQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakingwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}