Here are a variety of Journal Articles written about white sturgeon and other related issues:
Oyinlola MA, Khorsandi M, Penman R, Earhart ML, Arsenault R, McAdam S, Brauner CJ, St-Hilaire A (2025) Assessing the impact of climate change and a water management programme on white sturgeon physiology in the Nechako River, British Columbia. Conserv Physiol 13(1): coaf014; doi:10.1093/conphys/coaf014.
Climate change threatens river ecosystems, impacting the Nechako River white sturgeon. Our study shows that sturgeon embryos and yolk-sac larvae exhibit resilience to increasing temperatures, while feeding larvae and juveniles face increased thermal stress. Alternatives to water management, including comprehensive regulation of dam discharges, could help mitigate these climate-driven impacts.
Cheung K, Nelson-Flower MJ, McAdam S, Brauner CJ (2024) The carryover effects of embryonic incubation temperature on subsequent growth and thermal tolerance in white sturgeon. Journal of Thermal Biology, Vol 121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2024.103860
Highlights: • Endangered white sturgeon face threats via increased temperature during development. • Sturgeon embryos were incubated at 12, 15 and 18 C until hatch, then kept at 15 C. • Thermal tolerance and body length were measured until 80 days old. • 18 C fish were smallest, and had lowest thermal tolerance. • Exposure to heat early in development has negative effects in white sturgeon.
Rood, S. B., Hoffman, G. C., Merz, N., Anders, P., Benjankar, R., Burke, M., Egger, G., Polzin, M. L., & Soults, S. (2024). Collateral benefits: River flow normalization for endangered fish enabled riparian rejuvenation. River Research and Applications, 1–12. view
Babey, C. N., N. Gantner, and J. M. Shrimpton. 2023. Investigating patterns and extent of predation of hatchery-reared juvenile Nechako white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) by North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) in the Nechako River, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjz-2022-0148
Earhart ML, Blanchard TS, Morrison PR, Strowbridge N, Penman RJ, Brauner CJ, Schulte PM, Baker DW. 2023. Identification of upper thermal thresholds during development in the endangered Nechako white sturgeon with management implications for a regulated river. Conservation Physiology, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023, coad032, https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coad032.
Williamson, C., Toth, G., and Gantner, N. 2021. Movements of wild-captured juvenile, subadult, and adult White Sturgeon among putative population areas in the Upper Fraser Watershed 1995-2019. NWSRI Technical Report.
Babey, C. N., N. Gantner, C. J. Williamson, I. E. Spendlow, and J. M. Shrimpton. 2020. Evidence of predation of juvenile white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) by North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) in the Nechako River, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 36(6): 780-784. DOI: 10.1111/jai.14114
Philip N. Owens, David J. Gateuille, Ellen L. Petticrew, Barry P. Booth & Todd D. French (2019) Sediment-associated organopollutants, metals and nutrients in the Nechako River, British Columbia: a current study with a synthesis of historical data, Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, 44:1, 42-64, DOI: 10.1080/07011784.2018.1531063
McAdam SO, Crossman JA, Williamson C, et al. (2017) If you build it, will they come? Spawning habitat remediation for sturgeon. J Appl Ichthyol. 2017;00: 1–21. View • https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13566
Status of White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus Richardson, 1863) throughout the species range, threats to survival, and prognosis for the future Authors L. R. Hildebrand, A. Drauch Schreier, K. Leila, S. O. McAdam, J. McLellan, M. J. Parsley, V. L. Paragamian, S.P. Young. First published: December 2016. Journal of Applied Ichthyology.
Baker DW, SDO McAdam, M Boucher, KT Huynh, CJ Brauner (2014) Swimming performance and larval quality are altered by rearing substrate at early life phases in white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus (Richardson, 1836). J. Appl. Ichthyol. 30 (2014), 1461–1472 View
Boucher MA, SO McAdam, JM Shrimpton (2014) The effect of temperature and substrate on the growth, development and survival of larval white sturgeon. Aquaculture 430: 139-148 View
'Linkages between White Sturgeon Recruitment and Altered Bed Substrates in the Nechako River, Canada' 2005 article by Steve McAdam, Carl Walters, and Craig Nistor
Population genetic analysis of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in the Fraser River. C. T. Smith, R. J. Nelson, S. Pollard, E. Rubidge, S. J. McKay, J. Rodzen, B. May, B. Koop (2002). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 18 (4-6), 307–312.
'Reducing flows in the Nechako River (British Columbia, Canada): potential response of the macrophyte community' 1997 article by Todd French and Patricia Chambers
'Habitat partitioning in riverine macrophyte communities' 1996 article by Todd French and Patricia Chambers