Sentences with phrase «of mussel species»

Targeted protection should be provided for populations that are important from an evolutionary perspective and whose stocks have already been reduced by 90 percent, water bodies with a high level of mussel species diversity, and also healthy mussel stocks in intact habitats.

Not exact matches

State Assemblyman Sean Ryan says one example of such species that Western New Yorkers are most familiar with is the zebra mussel.

Proposed legislation from Rep. Elise Stefanik aims to raise awareness and funds to combat the spread of invasive species, including the zebra mussel pictured above.

Scientists from Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center confirmed the presence of dozens of species native to Japanese coastal waters — including barnacles, starfish, urchins, anemones, amphipods, worms, mussels, limpets, snails, solitary tunicates and algae — that were on a large floating dock in Japan that washed ashore at Agate Beach near Newport, Oregon in June 2012.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have published results of a powerful new tool that could give ecologists new ways of tackling problems posed by deadly invasive species like Asian carp and Zebra mussels.

Deep, swift - flowing waters seem to work best, tempting the target fish species while keeping the rocks free of silt, algae and mussels.

Quagga and zebra mussels shun toxin - producing Microcystis cyanobacteria and feed instead on other species of phytoplankton at the base of the lake's food chain, including algae.

Zebra mussels, although injurious to parts of the Great Lakes ecosystem, have actually benefited some species.

Through their filtering of the water, mussels seem to be creating «cascading» effects that change the nutritional value of the water for other species.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

But it's not any fish — different varieties of mussels are particular about what species of fish they hang with.

The group notes that streams that have the optimal combination of several imperiled mussel species, low chance of a significant temperature swing with projected climate change and being in a protected area are few, but are a good bet to start conservation efforts.

Zebra mussels disrupt normal movement and feeding of native species, as well as clogging water intake pipes and fouling ship hulls.

«Mussels need host fishes to spawn, and some mussels are obligated to just a few species or even a single species for their hosts,» said Dana Infante, associate professor of fisheries and wildlife in MSU's Aquatic Landscape EcoloMussels need host fishes to spawn, and some mussels are obligated to just a few species or even a single species for their hosts,» said Dana Infante, associate professor of fisheries and wildlife in MSU's Aquatic Landscape Ecolomussels are obligated to just a few species or even a single species for their hosts,» said Dana Infante, associate professor of fisheries and wildlife in MSU's Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab.

In a research paper «Complex replacement of invasive congeners may relax impact on native species: interactions among zebra, quagga, and native unionid mussels,» lead author Lyubov E. Burlakova, research scientist with the Great Lakes Center discusses the importance of understanding those interactions.

As the mussels transfer nutrients from the upper levels of the lakes to the depths, yet another exotic species, the round goby, has exploded.

One reason is that the nutrients and plankton in the waters of the Great Lakes are not merely limited, they are crashing, due to a different exotic species, the zebra mussel, and its cousin, the quagga mussel, two invaders that stowed on ships from Europe in the 1980s.

For example, the number of native unionid species dropped from 18 to 5 in Lake St. Clair after zebra mussel invasion.

As mussels cluster together in beds, they provide a protective home for hundreds of other species.

BAD NEIGHBORS Zebra mussels (shown) and other invasive species are just one of many threats to the Great Lakes» ecosystems, as detailed in a new book.

Image: A mussel shell engraved by Homo erectus between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago Credit: Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam Source: Kate Wong's World's Oldest Engraving Upends Theory of Homo sapiens Uniqueness on Observations These scratches may not look like much but they predate the existence of our species, Homo sapiens, and upend any claim -LSB-...]

«Researchers have dissected mussel beds and found, I think, upwards of 100 different species.

Where Pisaster had been removed, the mussels took over, crowding out other species and eating all the vegetation, until little more than a dark carpet of mussels and barnacles remained.

A study of California mussels, a key species in the rocky intertidal ecosystems of the West Coast, indicates that the effects of ocean acidification will vary from place to place along the coast depending on a range of interacting factors.

They used synthesized data on oceanographic parameters like ocean depth and temperature and the biological needs of 180 species of finfish and bivalve mollusks, such as oysters and mussels.

Mussel shells of the species Isorropodon nyeggaensis were found in the pockmarks.

«Other invasive species like zebra and quagga mussels have [already] dramatically shifted the structure and energy flow of many of the Great Lakes ecosystems.»

Wen and his Virginia Tech colleagues are also studying the possibility of selective breeding of the Chinese mussel Hyriopsis cumingii, which is currently the focal species for freshwater pearl production in China.

A catalogue of the 16 freshwater mussel species found throughout Europe will now be published for the first time in the journal «Biological Reviews».

«Where mussels were one of the most abundant and iconic species, now barnacles and algae dominate.

The fact that some mussel species are dispersed all across Europe and have given rise to different strains could be related to the ice ages and periods between them, on the one hand, but also to their fish hosts and the conquest of new habitats, on the other.

As a result, he predicts, the mussels will eventually take over the rocky shore, crowding out many other species of invertebrates.

«Because a mussel is highly dependent on its fish host and these are in decline, particular attention should be paid to the fish stocks,» says the TUM scientist, «even if some of these fish species do not have any particular economic value.»

A total of 289 species have been documented arriving this way, including fish, mussels, sea slugs, sea stars, crabs and sponges — all native to Japanese waters.

The report uses colored heat maps to represent the variety of species in a given area — warmer colors indicating greater diversity — and are based on the distribution of more than 1,000 fish, crayfish and mussel species in almost 300 watersheds spanning 11 states.

404 Southeast aquatic species: The southeastern United States contains the richest freshwater biodiversity in the nation, harboring 62 percent of the country's fish species (493 species), 91 percent of its mussels (269 species) and 48 percent of its dragonflies and damselflies (241 species).

A paper published in the journal Nature has reported the identification of cases of cancer being transmitted from individuals in mussels, cockles and golden carpet shell clam species.

As the main focus was on blue mussels, the first part of the thesis provided an introduction to blue musselspecies complex in Europe which is characterized by the three species Mytilus edulis, M. galloprovincialis and M. trossulus.

Possible positive and negative effects of hybridization were identified, the complexity of the blue mussel - species complex was highlighted and the implications of hybridization for adaptation were discussed.

Gene drive might similarly eliminate other invasive species, including the zebra mussels clogging the Great Lakes, the Asian carp driving native species out of America's waterways, and the pythons that have obliterated raccoons and rabbits in Florida's Everglades.

Freshwater pearls: Freshwater pearls form naturally in various species of freshwater mussels living in lakes, rivers, ponds and other fresh water.

Does someone who destroys Zebra Mussels, Kudzu, African Cichlids, Burmese Pythons, Brown Tree Snakes, or any of the other myriad destructive invasive - species have some personal problem with that species?

This collection of drawings represents 66 of 72 clam and mussel species currently listed as endangered.

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They found that in busy coastal waters, the installation was a welcome oasis of calm for many undersea species, including mussels, anemones and crabs, which in turn attract feeding sea birds.

In 2000, he and a team of scientists had documented it as home to 102 species of fish, 23 species of mussels and clams, 218 species of birds, 40 species of mammals and 40 types of amphibians and reptiles.

In this corner of Georgia, where temperatures have been over 100 and rainfall has been off by more than half, fish and wildlife officials are worried over the health of the shinyrayed pocketbook and the oval pigtoe mussels, both freshwater species on the endangered species list.

A change to the food web from dominance by isotopically heavier benthic algae to lighter phytoplankton could result in a pattern of decline in δ13C of filter - feeding species such as mussels.

Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the report is that so many other species are dependent on the Californian mussel.

Kudzu, zebra mussels and Africanized honeybees are some of the more well - known invasive species, but a team of international scientists says those are just the beginning.