Examples of Zebra mussel in a sentence
Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) selective filtration promoted toxic Microcystis blooms in Saginaw Bay (Lake Huron) and Lake Erie.
Zebra mussel population dynamics: Implications for water quality modeling.
Eventual Zebra mussel infestation of the Red River is possible, but surviving population levels are likely to be minimal.
Regarding biological changes in the lake, in the late 1980s (and concurrent with the invasion and expansion of the Zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha) there was a systematic decrease in alkalinity (in part due to dissolved inorganic carbonate species) in Lake Erie surface waters (Fig.
Zebra mussel larvae can be carried in boat bilge water, live wells, bait buckets, and engine cooling water systems even if the boat has been in infested water for only a short time (New York Sea Grant Extension Fact Sheet 1994).Conditions leading to the initial dispersion for zebra mussels in the East do not exist for western waters.
Zebra mussel infestations could increase the Central Arizona Project operations and maintenance costs between $4 and $5 million annually.This does not include the costs to customers, farmers, and water treatment plants (Dreissena! 1998).
Public awareness programmes may assist in slowing down the process of spread of Caulerpa taxifolia in the Mediterranean Sea and the Zebra mussel in the North American Great Lakes and in Ireland.
Specifically, I control for the rationales behind the restrictions with a set of dummy variables.19 The new weaker iden- tification assumption is that the interactions between restriction categories do not directly affect logger valuations and are uncorrelated with other unobserved determinants of bids, conditional on controls.
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Whilst the presence of Zebra mussel in Lough Derg appears to have improved water quality in the lake, in the long-term this invasive bivalve may threaten the ecology of the lake.