Ratooning the early maturing rice variety "Spring" as a waterfowl management practice in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV)

There are no reports available for this SSP project at this time.

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: FWSR4, Methods and techniques, SSPQR, storymap

Estimating survival of breeding birds in a bottomland hardwood forest.

This QR project contributed information to the MAPS (Monitoring avian production and survivorship) program.

Categories: Project; Tags: FWSR4, Life history, status and trends, SSPQR, storymap

Coal toxcitiy to mussels

This SSP project resulted in a final report and one publication. Toxicity tests were conducted at the U.S. Geological Survey Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC), Columbia, Missouri to determine the effects of sediments from impacted (historic coal mining or gas well activities) and un-impacted (these activities did not occur) river sites on growth and mortality of 2 mo old rainbow mussels (Villosa iris). Tissue from surviving juveniles from one replicate (n = 1) of each of the sediment exposures were histologically processed and qualitatively evaluated to determine sub-lethal effects on their organ and visceral tissues. Many tissues were improperly embedded, but re-embedding allowed most tissues to be...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Evaluation of aquatic resources, FWSR4, SSPQR, storymap

Distribution and status of Tallapoosa River system fauna

This report presents findings of research accomplished with funding through the USGS “Species at Risk” and 'FWS Critical Needs' programs, to address the status and distribution of 'at-risk' aquatic species in the upper Tallapoosa River system in Georgia and Alabama. The upper Tallapoosa river system contains at least five endemic fishes ( Cyprinella gibbsi, Etheostoma chuckwachatte, E. tallapoosae, Percina sp. and Cottus sp.), two endemic crayfishes ( Cambarus englishi, C. halli), an endemic mussel, Quadrula archeri and an endemic freshwater snail ( Elimia flava). A sixth fish species, Fundulus bifax, is nearly restricted to the Tallapoosa River system, having a single known locale outside of the Tallapoosa. In...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Evaluation of aquatic resources, FWSR4, SSPQR, storymap