Download or read book Freshwater Mussels of Texas written by Robert G. Howells and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Species. Freshwater mussels are the most rapidly declining group of animals in North America. This guide represents a first-ofits-kind reference to assist both biologists and naturalists in the identification and study of freshwater mussels. Freshwater Mussels of Texas contains 224 pages with 226 black and white photographs, 144 color photographs and 79 line drawings covering all 52 species found in Texas waters. Introductory sections cover basic anatomy, reproduction.

Download or read book Field Guide to Texas Freshwater Mussels of Texas written by Robert G. Howells and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Texas Freshwater Mussels written by Robert G. Howells and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia Mississippi and Tennessee written by James David Williams and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive accounting of the richest mussel fauna in the US

Download or read book Texas Aquatic Science written by Rudolph A. Rosen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

Download or read book Freshwater Mussels Bivalvia of the Village Creek Drainage Basin in Southeast Texas written by Vickie Lee Bordelon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freshwater Mussels of the Wichita River Texas with Comments on the Little Wichita and Pease Rivers written by Robert G. Howells and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Survey of the Freshwater Mussels of the Lower Neches River Basin Texas written by Dana Michelle Feaster and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Distribution of Unionid Mussels in the Big Thicket Region of Texas written by Alison A. Tarter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Thicket located in Southeast Texas harbors the highest number of regional endemic freshwater mussel species and the highest diversity of unionid mussels in the state, including five state-threatened species. Unfortunately, mussels in this region are threatened by pollution, habitat alteration and destruction due to human impacts caused by petrochemical activities, climatic changes and urbanization. The goals of this project were to (1) survey mussels in the Big Thicket National Preserve, particularly in the poorly surveyed southern portion of the preserve, and (2) to examine historical changes in mussel communities. In addition, DNA samples were taken and the analysis of 97 mussels informed identification of ten species, some of which can be difficult to distinguish morphologically. A total of 39 sites in the Lower Neches River, Village Creek and Pine Island Bayou basins were surveyed. Historical data from 2002 (restricted to Village Creek) and 2014 were available for sub-set of these sites. The survey showed that species richness and mussel densities generally increased from upstream tributaries towards lower Village Creek and the mainstream Neches, where rare and threatened species were mostly found. Evidence for recruitment was mainly found in the backwaters of the lower Neches, which may act as a refuge during flooding. Declines between 2014 and 2018 were most severe in the parts of the Neches basin that most likely experienced the highest shear stress during flooding based on the channel morphology. Declines were also detected when data from 2002 were compared with 2014 suggesting that the exceptional drought in 2011 may have also contributed to long-term declines in Village Creek. Future studies should examine the role of backwaters for recruitment of threatened mussels.

Download or read book The Distribution and Abundance of the Freshwater Mussels Bivalvia Unionacea of the Navasota River Texas written by Thomas Glynn Littleton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book North American Freshwater Mussels written by Wendell R. Haag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizes the ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history enthusiasts.

Download or read book Freshwater Mussels Unionidae of the Pimpleback complex Quadrula Spp in Texas written by Robert G. Howells and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preliminary Survey of Freshwater Mussel Harvest in Texas written by Robert G. Howells and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ecology and Paleobiogeography of Freshwater Mussels Family written by Charles R. Randklev and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fresh Water Mussels of East Texas written by Howard Julius Bachtel and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Identification of Potential Fish Hosts from Wild Populations of State threatened East Texas Freshwater Mussels Using a Molecular Identification Dataset written by NATHANIEL T. MARSHALL and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Immersion written by Abbie Gascho Landis and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels--70 percent of North American species are imperiled--will mean for humans and wildlife alike. Landis shares this journey, traveling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where endangered mussels are raised one precious life at a time. Mussels have much to teach us about the health of our watersheds if we step into the creek and take a closer look at their lives. In the tradition of writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Sy Montgomery, Landis gracefully chronicles these untold stories with a veterinarian's careful eye and the curiosity of a naturalist.--