Larval fish are cool and very little studied in streams, mostly because they are hard to identify.
These young will be reproductively active within approximately 24 hours of being born. Working with the Nature Conservancy, we want to ask the question of wether riparian vegetative restoration in the floodplain is good for the rearing of juvenile salmonids who use the shallow water habitat during floods. We are investigating the influence of the Oroville Dam complex on invertebrate community structure and the feeding preferences of juvenile salmonids 3. We are investigating wether there is a significant negative effect of invertebrate predators on the larval stages of both species that appears as competition between the tadpoles. In conjunction with Dr. Peter Moyle at UC.Davis, we are examining landscape level patterns in fish invasions.