The retreat of glaciers in the Pacific mountains of British Columbia and Alaska could produce thousands of kilometres of potential new salmon habitat, a study led by researchers at Simon Fraser University shows.
The study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, projects that more than 6,000 kilometres of new streams could be accessible to salmon by 2100, and just under one-third of that could be suitable for spawning.
Of the total kilometres of new streams that could be gained with “complete deglaciation,” the study projects 23 per cent would be created by 2050.
To make the projection, researchers identified 315 glaciers at
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