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Invasive Mussels Linked to Nutrients in Great Lakes
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Mussels filter waters coming into coastal embayments, and can pull phosphorus out of the water column and deposit it into nearshore sediments ...
Mussel Watch - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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National Mussel Watch Program NOAA’s National Mussel Watch Program monitors the status and spatial and temporal trends of chemical contaminants and ...
Complex Interactions Between Harmful Phytoplankton and Grazers ...
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A pair of large-scale field enclosure (mesocosm) manipulations of mussel density in consecutive years showed that when phosphorus concentrations were ...
Mussel Watch Detects New Contaminants in Great Lakes (video)
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The NCCOS Mussel Watch Program is using invasive zebra and quagga mussels to monitor contaminants of emerging concern in the Great Lakes. These mussel ...
NCCOS, Partners Assess Contamination in Great Lakes (Video)
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The NCCOS Mussel Watch Program uses invasive zebra and quagga mussels to monitor contaminants in the Great Lakes. These mussels spread rapidly ...
Forecasting the Spread and Bioeconomic Impacts of Invasive Species in ...
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The many established invasive species have caused great damage in the Great Lakes. It has been estimated that dreissinid (zebra and quagga) mussels ...
Forecasting the Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions for ...
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Models are developed for nutrient loads (nitrogen and phosphorus), hypoxia (climate, phosphorous loading, invasive mussels) and ecological effects ...
Beating the Spread: NCCOS Science Helps Managers NOT Gamble with ...
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NOAA Offices Partner to Monitor Water Quality in Great Lakes
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Last month, NOAA divers collected zebra and quagga mussels at multiple sites around Lake Ontario as part of an NCCOS-led effort to characterize ...
Great Lakes Mussel Watch Program: An Assessment and Characterization of ...
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NOAA’s Mussel Watch Program has monitored the nation’s coastal waters for chemical contaminants since 1986. These monitoring efforts now include ...
NOAA Evaluates Using Mussel Watch Program to Monitor Microplastics
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The MWP uses the filtering ability of bivalve mollusks (marine mussels, oysters, and invasive freshwater mussels – Dreissenid sp.) as sentinel ...
Research Promotes Method to Slow the Spread of Encrusting Invasive ...
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Colonies of Didemnum vexillum encrusting mussel cages. Okeover Inlet, Malaspina Peninsula, BC, 2003. Photo credit Gordon King (TSF). Dredging channels ...
Lakebed Mapping and Assessing Ecological Resources off Wisconsin’s Lake ...
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Our maps and data will help coastal managers make more informed decisions, and support future research on invasive mussels, nuisance algae, fish ...
Benthic Mapping, Ground-Truthing, and Habitat Modeling to Support Great ...
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Unfortunately, the lakes are under threat from a variety of natural and anthropogenic disturbances, such as coastal erosion, habitat loss, invasive ...
New Report Addresses Re-eutrophication and Hypoxia in Lake Erie
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In response to total phosphorus load reductions, initiated in 1972, Lake Erie water quality quickly improved. However, since the mid-1990s, changing ...
Measuring Parasites and Disease in U.S. Oysters and Mussels
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TheNS&T MWP uses oysters and mussels as sentinel organisms to monitor the health of ournation’s coastal and marine waters, including Alaska, Hawaii ...
Pollution - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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NCCOS science is used to inform resource managers on the fate and effects of chemicals specific to coastal ecosystems. NCCOS research supports ...
Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed ...
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At a proximal level, the physiological impacts of global climate change on ectothermic organisms are manifest as changes in body temperatures ...
Oregon Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Outbreak Prompts Rapid Response ...
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On May 23, Oregon initially closed all mussel harvesting from Seal Rock to Cape Lookout due to elevated PSP toxins in shellfish. The state has since ...
Potential Impacts of Asian Carp in Lake Erie
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The invasive carp is expected to decrease the numbers of certain fish species due to competition for food, but is also expected to increase other ...