Focus 3: Habitat Modeling
... Habitat parameters important for unionid protection from zebra mussels may include: ◦ presence of substrates soft enough for unionids to burrow into ◦ large areas of shallow waters (protected bayous) with low flow and warmer temperatures that encourage unionid burrowing ◦ hydrological connection of ...
... Habitat parameters important for unionid protection from zebra mussels may include: ◦ presence of substrates soft enough for unionids to burrow into ◦ large areas of shallow waters (protected bayous) with low flow and warmer temperatures that encourage unionid burrowing ◦ hydrological connection of ...
lesson6
... • African bees aka killer bees because they swarm and attack animals they see as a threat • Cattle, dogs and humans have all been killed by the bees • In Brazil their population grew and began to spread • By 1986 the bees had spread as far as Mexico claiming the lives of more than 150 people • By 1 ...
... • African bees aka killer bees because they swarm and attack animals they see as a threat • Cattle, dogs and humans have all been killed by the bees • In Brazil their population grew and began to spread • By 1986 the bees had spread as far as Mexico claiming the lives of more than 150 people • By 1 ...
Energy Movement in Ecosystems
... through the Great Lakes. Attached to any hard object and blocked water intake pipes choking hydroelectric plants and cut off freshwater supplies for industry. Is now a permanent part of the Great Lakes food web. ...
... through the Great Lakes. Attached to any hard object and blocked water intake pipes choking hydroelectric plants and cut off freshwater supplies for industry. Is now a permanent part of the Great Lakes food web. ...
Eastern river pearl mussel
... the other is harmed. Diet Eastern river pearl mussels feed on suspended organic particles they filter from the water including algae, bacteria and single-celled organisms. These mussels can filter up to 2 L of water per hour. Reproduction and development ...
... the other is harmed. Diet Eastern river pearl mussels feed on suspended organic particles they filter from the water including algae, bacteria and single-celled organisms. These mussels can filter up to 2 L of water per hour. Reproduction and development ...
Chapter5-Notes
... Zebra Mussels: The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, is a species of small freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk. This species was originally native to the lakes of southeast Russia. However, it has been accidentally introduced in many other areas, and has become a problematic invasive spe ...
... Zebra Mussels: The zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, is a species of small freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk. This species was originally native to the lakes of southeast Russia. However, it has been accidentally introduced in many other areas, and has become a problematic invasive spe ...
The Mutualistic Life of Bivalves
... The Mutualist Life of Bivalves Wendy Stickel EVPP Seminar on Mutualism March 4, 2010 ...
... The Mutualist Life of Bivalves Wendy Stickel EVPP Seminar on Mutualism March 4, 2010 ...
Freshwater Pearl Mussel - Scottish Environment LINK
... more familiar marine mussels, but grow larger and can live as long as 100 years making them among the longest lived invertebrates. They live at the bottom of clean, fast-flowing rivers with coarse sand or gravel. They are filter feeders, extracting tiny particles of nutrients from the water. The Fre ...
... more familiar marine mussels, but grow larger and can live as long as 100 years making them among the longest lived invertebrates. They live at the bottom of clean, fast-flowing rivers with coarse sand or gravel. They are filter feeders, extracting tiny particles of nutrients from the water. The Fre ...
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of clams or bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other edible clams, which are often more or less rounded or oval.The word ""mussel"" is most frequently used to mean the edible bivalves of the marine family Mytilidae, most of which live on exposed shores in the intertidal zone, attached by means of their strong byssal threads (""beard"") to a firm substrate. A few species (in the genus Bathymodiolus) have colonised hydrothermal vents associated with deep ocean ridges.In most marine mussels the shell is longer than it is wide, being wedge-shaped or asymmetrical. The external colour of the shell is often dark blue, blackish, or brown, while the interior is silvery and somewhat nacreous.The common name ""mussel"" is also used for many freshwater bivalves, including the freshwater pearl mussels. Freshwater mussel species inhabit lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, canals, and they are classified in a different subclass of bivalves, despite some very superficial similarities in appearance.Freshwater zebra mussels and their relatives in the family Dreissenidae are not related to previously mentioned groups, even though they resemble many Mytilus species in shape, and live attached to rocks and other hard surfaces in a similar manner, using a byssus. They are classified with the Heterodonta, the taxonomic group which includes most of the bivalves commonly referred to as ""clams"".