Background Study on the Environmental Impacts of Barge Fleeting
Author: Jody Gustitus Millar
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 74
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Author: Jody Gustitus Millar
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 74
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 27
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNavigation traffic can intermittently increase turbulence and suspended solids in rivers. Freshwater mussels are essentially sessile filter-feeders and could be susceptible to physiological disruption as a result of exposure to these potential effects of navigation traffic. In laboratory studies, cyclic increases in water velocity and turbulence at a level and frequency that can be caused by routine navigation traffic led to reduced feeding rates and slightly increased reliance on endogenous and nonproteinaceous energy reserves. However, continuous or near-continuous disruption, such as might be associated with barge fleeting activities, led to virtually complete reliance on endogenous energy reserves. These results suggest that proposed areas of barge fleeting be evaluated on a site-specific basic to ensure that important mussel populations are not situated in nearby habitats that will be exposed to sustained periods of turbulence and suspended solids above ambient conditions. In addition, these laboratory studies confirm the utility of sublethal physiological indices of stress, such as oxygen: nitrogen and flesh: shell mass ratios, in field studies aimed at monitoring environmental impacts on natural mussel populations. Keywords: Environmental impact; Aquatic biology.
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 428
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 256
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1580
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 610
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses barge fleeting on the Mississippi River along Iowa's border, identifying the problems and conflicts and determining what actions are needed.
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Published: 1990-07
Total Pages: 582
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