Sentences with phrase «populations of mussels»

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By eating mussels on the low shores in Oregon, sea stars keep those populations in check so the bivalves don't explode in numbers, at the expense of other organisms.

Mussels have caused high mortality in native Unionid clams (though some clams seem able to coexist with zebra mussels), altered the makeup of populations living at the bottom of the waterways and reduced plankton commuMussels have caused high mortality in native Unionid clams (though some clams seem able to coexist with zebra mussels), altered the makeup of populations living at the bottom of the waterways and reduced plankton commumussels), altered the makeup of populations living at the bottom of the waterways and reduced plankton communities.

«Much attention has been focused upon the potential impact of zebra mussels on fish populations, yet researchers have identified few instances of associated changes fish abundance.

«Due to the complexity of threats we have identified in this study, conservation efforts in Michigan should prioritize both protecting the highly suitable mussel habitats that are left, and identifying any additional populations in under - sampled areas of the state,» said Wesley Daniel, a former research associate in Infante's Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab, and now Cherokee Nation Technologies contractor for U.S. Geological Survey in Gainesville, FL..

Because the Chinook salmon diet consists of over 90 percent alewife, the new study predicts a smaller Chinook salmon population if nutrients remain low and invasive mussels remain abundant.

Although both zebra and quagga mussel populations have most likely peaked — the zebra mussel around 1989 and the quagga mussel between 1998 and 2002 — another invader, the round goby, has been preying on selected benthic groups, continuing to affect the composition of the community.

«If a mussel population dies out in just one location in the south, this can represent half of the global population,» the TUM scientist explains.

The Gulf of Maine coastline, historically home to one of the richest shellfish populations in the U.S., is undergoing a dramatic change, with once - flourishing wild blue mussels all but disappearing, according to a study led by University of California, Irvine ecologists.

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.

«This field site exhibits a typical North Atlantic biofouling community, most notably a population of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), which allowed to compare the findings obtained in the laboratory with observations in real - world conditions,» says Stefan Kolle, a Research Associate in the Aizenberg lab at the Wyss Institute and SEAS who is also a co-first author of the paper.

As more than two thirds of the population live on the coast, essential dishes include anchovies and seafood antipasto, mussels, octopus and clams.

Her dissertation research was a study of the influence of pleistocene ice age history, biogeography, and micro-evolutionary and ecological processes in shaping population genetic structure of the California sea mussel, Mytilus californianus.

Ocean acidification will fry fish populations directly, too, though scientists aren't yet sure how to predict the effects on the stuff we haul out of the ocean to eat; they do know that in acid waters, oysters and mussels will struggle to grow their shells, and that when the pH of human blood drops as much as the oceans» pH has over the past generation, it induces seizures, comas, and sudden death.