Monitoring invasive quagga mussels, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae), and other benthic organisms in a western US aqueduct

Monitoring invasive quagga mussels, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae), and other benthic organisms in a western US aqueduct

A quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis Andrusov, 1897) invasion of an aqueduct in Arizona was monitored from 2007 – 2011using colonization substrates. As numbers increased, a filtering-collector caddisfly (Smicridea fasciatella McLachlan, 1871) declinedsignificantly in abundance. After two...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: S. Mark Nelson, Fred Nibling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC) 2013-01-01
Series:Management of Biological Invasions
Subjects:
aqueduct
canal
Dreissena rostriformis bugensis
filtering-collector
freshwater sponge
quagga mussel
Smicridea fasciatella
Online Access:http://www.reabic.net/journals/mbi/2013/1/MBI_2013_1_Nelson_Nibling.pdf

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