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Potential Consequences of Applying the Wrong Model
Increasing the density of salmon carcasses without a corresponding increase in the number of smolts moving downstream will lead to increased nutrient densities in the region where the carcasses are added and an increased spiraling flux of nutrients downstream (that is assuming that there is a longer residence time for nutrients in the stream in the absence of salmon than there is with salmon present and smolt migration).
Notes:
statement of the general concern – see next for specific problems anticipated