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Category: Aquatic Invasive Species
Alteration of Lake Michigan benthic communities by the invasive colonial hydroid, Cordylophora caspia: effects on fish prey
Alteration of nutrient cycling and food web structure by profundal quagga mussels in Lake Michigan
Aquatic nuisance species – evaluating the ecological and economic value of the 100th Meridian Initiative
Aquatic nuisance species: an evaluation of barriers for preventing the spread of Bighead and Silver carp to the Great Lakes
Bighead carp in the upper midwest river: competition with native filter-feeding fishes and potential threats to the Great Lakes
Consequences of Round Goby Invasion for Littoral Zone Communities: Effects on Sculpin and Benthic Invertebrates Project
- Examine diets of sympatric and allopatric populations of mottled sculpins and round gobies
- Determine the relationship between mottled sculpin and round goby feeding on benthic invertebrate
communities - Assess the role of round gobies as trophic replacements for mottled sculpins
Degradation and Restoration of Lake Michigan: Past and Future of Nonindigenous Species
Our overall goal is to provide quantitative descriptions of species characteristics that increase the probability of successful invasion.
Dispersal of Exotic Species in the Great Lakes: Crayfish as a Model System for Benthic Species
- Reconstruct the chronology of invasions of Orconectes rusticus and other nonnative crayfishes into the Great Lakes
- Use genetic analyses of the regions in Lake Michigan where O. rusticus is displacing O. propinquus
- Predict the future distribution of O. rusticus in the Great Lakes by comparing the environmental requirements of O. rusticus (especially substrata) with the characteristics of Great Lakes littoral zones
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