Development of geospatial tools for large-scale freshwater salmon habitat assessment by the Freshwater Spatial Ecology Program
PSSI Project Summary
Division: Ecosystem Sciences (ESD)
Section: Freshwater Ecosystems
Organization: DFO
Session(s): Freshwater Stressors
Presentation Date(s): December 02, 2025
Speakers: Keegan Paterson
Abstract:
Identifying individual and cumulative threats to salmon and their habitat is critical for effective management and restoration actions. This project estimates and maps nine human activities and landscape disturbance-based threats and four climate change-based threats for the stream network in the Fraser Basin. Results identify threat levels across salmon Conservation Units and the human activities and land uses that contributed most to threats.