Sentences with phrase «invasive gobies»

With a commercially available, though slightly modified, water column sampler, water samples are taken from the bottom of the water body, where invasive gobies live.

Five species of invasive gobies populate wide areas of freshwater and brackish waters in Central Europe — the species that is most common to the region around Basel, Neogobius melanostomus, even figures among the 100 worst invaders in Europe.

The idea for this came from findings obtained as a result of research on invasive gobies in the Danube, on which two doctoral theses had already been written at the Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology.

Not exact matches

The study also found that lake trout and steelhead may fare better because these two species can switch from eating alewife, which are in decline, to bottom - dwelling round goby, another newly established invasive prey fish that feeds on quagga mussels.

With the round goby invading these so - called conservation «hot spots,» many scientists worried that the invasive fish would prey on those mollusks or out - compete native fish critical to the mussels» life cycle.