Publications | Lydia Walton

Publications & Presentations

Peer-reviewed publications

Gaffney, L.P., Polard, E., Walton, L.N., Kraemer, C., Molder, Z.A., Covernton, G.A., Atkinson, J., Elmer, L., James, S., Quindazzi, M., Duguid, W., & Juanes, F. (Submitted; Aquaculture). Flow direction matters: hatchery-reared coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) develop less otolith deformities in tanks with alternating water flow directions. Manuscript ID: AQUACULTURE-D-25-02410

Walton, L.N, Watts, V.R., Schuster, J.M., & Bates, A.E. (In Review; MEPS). Cool ocean temperatures fail to provide thermal refuge for a heat-stressed keystone predator. Manuscript ID: MEPS-2025-03-055.

Gaffney, L.P., Quindazzi, M., Polard, E., Kraemer, C., Walton, L.N., Molder, Z.A., Greentree, W.L., Duguid, W., Bohlender, N., & Juanes, F. (2025). Vateritic otoliths in hatchery-reared Strait of Georgia Coho Salmon: variation among stocks, hatcheries, and life stages. Fisheries Research, 283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2025.107296

Walton, L.N, Quindazzi, M., Gauthier, S., & Stevens, C. (2025). Fish ID face-off: A comparison of genetic barcoding and otolith shape analysis for streamlining species identification of mesopelagic fishes. Fisheries Research, 281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.107254

Presentations at professional meetings

Walton, L.N., Watts, V.R., Schuster, J.M., & Bates, A.E. (Oct. 26th - Nov. 1st, 2024) Cool ocean temperatures fail to buffer the negative impacts of heat exposure during low tide on the keystone predator Pisaster ochraceus (Ochre sea star). Poster presentation. The FUTURE of PICES: Science for Sustainability in 2030, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Walton, L.N., Watts, V.R., Schuster, J.M., & Bates, A.E. (Apr. 9 - 10th, 2024) Physiological and behavioural responses of a keystone predator to contrasting ocean and air temperatures. Oral presentation. Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Walton, L.N., Quindazzi, M., Gauthier, S., & Stevens, C. (Oct. 9 - 13th, 2023) Cataloguing otoliths of mesopelagic and bathypelagic fishes: a tool for species identification. Oral presentation. 7th International Otolith Symposium, Viña del Mar, Chile.

Awarded best student oral presentation

Walton, L.N., Rooney, N.M., & Baum, J.K. (Mar. 19 - 20th, 2022) The impact of global and local disturbances on the isotopic niche of a generalist carnivore reef fish, Paracirrhites arcatus. Poster presentation. Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference, Victoria, British Columbia.

Walton, L.N., Rooney, N.M., & Baum, J.K. (Jul. 19 - 23rd, 2021) Do disturbances impact the isotopic niche of a generalist carnivore reef fish, Paracirrhites arcatus? Poster presentation. 14th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bremen, Germany.