
	Where results make sense

Topic: Zebra mussel

Related Topics

Zebra mussels

freshwater mussel

Blue mussel

Quagga Mussel

Zebra Danio

Mountain Zebra

zebra finch

Ice Station Zebra

Mountain Zebra National Park

Zebra IV

HMS Zebra

Equus zebra

In the News (Wed 30 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	EEK! - Alien Profile: Zebra Mussel
		Zebra mussels are members of the phylum Mollusca (mol-US-ka), or mollusks.
		The young zebra mussels reach sexual maturity during their first year and are ready to continue the cycle.
		Zebra mussels seem to be able to survive everywhere, but they are rarely found in still water or fast-moving water.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/invert/zebramussel.htm (0 words)

	Zebra mussel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a bivalve mussel native to freshwater lakes of southeast Russia.
		Zebra mussels and the closely related and ecologically similar quagga mussel are voracious filter-feeding organisms.
		Zebra mussels are greatly impacting the freshwater mussel population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zebra_mussel (1271 words)

	Okeechobee Waterway Zebra Mussel Monitoring Plan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zebra mussels are capable of feeding on waterborne particles as microscopic as one micron (0.00004 inch) in size; the ability to filter out such tiny planktonic bacteria, provides the zebra mussel with an advantage over other native mussels, which can typically only feed-on particles greater than three microns in size.
		Zebra mussels are macrofouling organisms and generally live out their adult lives attached to solid substrates such as logs and rocks; they have also been found encrusting shells of native mussels, exoskeletons of crayfish and even aquatic plants.
		Zebra mussels have shown a preference to water intake pipes, screens and other water-drawing equipment or structures that are subject to occlusion; as such, municipal, industrial and hydroelectric facilities which utilize raw-water sources are greatly at risk.
	www.saj.usace.army.mil /conops/apc/zebra_mussel/ZebraMusselPlan.html (2221 words)

	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- Alpena FRO- Zebra Mussel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zebra mussels have severely impaired native mussel communities by colonizing native mussel surfaces and suffocating the mussels with their byssal thread attaching structures.
		There is some concern that zebra mussels may concentrate contaminants from soil and the water column into their body mass and may transfer these contaminants to fish and wildlife who feed on them.
		Zebra mussel shells are also very sharp, and where dead mussel shells have washed on shore they clutter beaches making walking for swimmers very difficult.
	www.fws.gov /midwest/alpena/zebramussel.htm (404 words)

	Zebra mussel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zebra mussels are notorious for their biofouling capabilities by colonizing water supply pipes of hydroelectric and nuclear power plants, public water supply plants, and industrial facilities.
		Zebra mussel densities were as high as 700,000 m2 at one power plant in Michigan and the diameters of pipes have been reduced by two-thirds at water treatment facilities.
		Zebra mussels are capable of filtering the water of the planktonic organisms and this has caused a problem in the Great Lakes region.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/zebra_mussel.html (862 words)

	Zebra Mussel: An Unwelcome Visitor
		Zebra Mussels are native to western Asia and were indigenous to the drainage basins of the Aral, Black, and Caspian Seas.
		Zebra mussels are able to tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, but colonization appears to be determined by depth, water temperature, and salinity.
		Zebra mussels actively feed and spawn as water temperatures reach 54° F, but can tolerate temperatures ranging from 45° F to 90° F. One of the most important conditions limiting the zebra mussels' expansion is salinity.
	seagrant.gso.uri.edu /factsheets/zebra_mussel.html (1494 words)

	Zebra Mussels Task Force of the LGA
		Zebra Mussels are causing significant economic and ecological problems throughout many areas of the United States, and the discovery of live adult zebra mussels in Lake George in December 1999 is a matter of serious public concern.
		Heightened public awareness of the potential impacts of Zebra Mussels to Lake George, of entry pathways and of preventative measures is a primary objective and member groups are recommended to undertake public education efforts consistent with the Task Force’s guidelines for a coordinated educational program.
		Hand-harvesting adult Zebra Mussels, such as occurred at the single identified colonization site in 2000, has the potential to avoid or delay a permanent colonization of Lake George thereby obviating untold future damages and therefore should continue to be supported by member groups with such resources committed for this effort.
	www.lakegeorgeassociation.org /html/zmtf.htm (558 words)

	Zebra Mussels
		Zebra mussels have an extremely high reproductive rate of 30,000-1,000,000 veligers per year and are able to reproduce at one year of age.
		Zebra mussels are native to the drainage basins of the Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas of Eastern Europe.
		Zebra mussels are the only freshwater mussel that can secrete durable elastic strands, called byssal fibers, by which they can securely attach to nearly any surface, forming barnacle-like crusts.
	www.des.state.nh.us /factsheets/bb/bb-17.htm (1093 words)

	Zebra Mussel Alert
		Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are small, thumbnail size mussels with a zebra-like pattern of stripes native to the Caspian Sea region of Asia.
		Zebra mussels may also affect manmade facilities by clogging water intake pipes and disrupting withdrawal operations.
		Because microscopic zebra mussel larvae can be unknowingly transported in bilges, engine cooling systems, minnow buckets, live wells and anywhere water is trapped, the following precautions should be taken to help slow their spread.
	www.wildlifedepartment.com /mussel.htm (653 words)

	CLR Volunteer Zebra Mussel Monitoring Program (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are native to the Caspian Sea in Asia.
		Zebra mussels are an extremely invasive species, causing far-reaching damage to water structures and native ecosystems.
		Preventing the spread of zebra mussels to the Columbia River and its associated waterways in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming is the primary objective of the Zebra Mussel Monitoring Network coordinated by the Center for Lakes and Reservoirs.
	www.clr.pdx.edu /projects/volunteer_monitoring/zebramussel/index.html (478 words)

	IA DNR: Zebra Mussel
		Tolerant of a wide range of environmental conditions, zebra mussels have extended their range to parts of all the Great Lakes and the much of the Mississippi River, and are begining to infest inland lakes as well.
		First, when the mussels filter algae that has absorbed toxic materials, they either ingest the toxic materials, which accumulate and concentrate in the mussel's fatty tissue and is then passed on to fish and ducks that prey on mussels, or they release the toxins as pseudofeces waste, putting it back into water column.
		Also, zebra mussels provide a new mechanism of introducing toxins to the food chain, as amphipods that graze on the pseudofeces containing the toxins are then eaten by fish.
	www.iowadnr.com /fish/news/exotics/zebra.html (1389 words)

	minnesota sea grant - outreach - exotic species - zebra mussels threaten inland waters
		Zebra mussels are native to western Russia, near the Caspian Sea.
		Zebra mussels generate a tuft of fibers known as a byssus, or byssal threads, from a gland in the foot.
		Because zebra mussels prefer hard surfaces at moderate water depth, water intake structures, such as those used by power plants and city treatment plants, are susceptible to clogging by zebra mussels.
	www.seagrant.umn.edu /exotics/zmoverview.html (1509 words)

	USFWS - Region 3: Zebra Mussel
		The mussels begin their juvenile stage by settling to the bottom, where they crawl about by means of a foot searching for a suitable firm surface or substratum upon which to anchor.
		In one study, biologists found that where zebra mussel densities were highest, in Lake St. Clair and in the western basin of Lake Erie, native mussels had declined after only two years of zebra mussel colonization.
		Although the quagga mussel closely resembles its cousin, it is not expected to have as great an impact on native mussels because it does not show a preference for using them as substrates.
	www.fws.gov /midwest/endangered/clams/zebra.html (1008 words)

	Harmful Aquatic Hitchhikers: Mollusks: Zebra Mussel
		Zebra mussels attached to native clam compared to native clam alone.
		As zebra mussels spread, biologists are concerned that populations of native mussels will decline, and perhaps some of the rarer species may be completely eliminated.
		Zebra mussels contributed to the improvement of Lake Erie's water clarity.
	www.protectyourwaters.net /hitchhikers/mollusks_zebra_mussel.php (1433 words)

	Zebra mussel Summary
		The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small bivalve mollusk native to the freshwater rivers draining the Caspian and Black Seas of western Asia.
		The zebra mussel has very few natural predators, and since it is not considered an edible species, it has no commercial value to man. One enterprising man from Ohio has turned some zebra mussel shells into jewelry, but currently the supply far exceeds the demand.
		Zebra mussels were first detected in the Great Lakes in 1988, in Lake St. Clair, located between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario.
	www.bookrags.com /Zebra_mussel (1338 words)

	Zebra Mussel Wars Continue
		Nonnative zebra mussels from Europe first appeared in the Mississippi River in 1991, and today the exploding zebra mussel population has carpeted some parts of the Mississippi River bed with 10,000 to 20,000 mussels per square yard.
		Zebra mussels are the only freshwater mollusks who can attach themselves to solid objects such as submerged rocks, dock pilings, and boat hulls.
		Zebra mussels have decimated native mussel species along the Mississippi and pushed the Higgin's eye pearly mussel to the brink of extinction.
	www.greatlakesdirectory.org /zarticles/822zebramussel.htm (1095 words)

	Zebra Mussel - What is it? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zebra mussels are native to the Caspian Sea region in the former Soviet Union.
		Zebra mussels have caused millions of dollars in damage to water intake structures and delivery systems, such as those used for power and municipal water treatment plants in the eastern United States from the Great Lakes into the Mississippi drainage.
		Studies have shown that zebra mussels have increased water clarity in Lake Erie up to six times what it was prior to their arrival.
	www.des.water.ca.gov /zmwatch/what_is_a_zebra_mussel/index.cfm (713 words)

	Fact Sheet for Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)
		The zebra mussel's high fecundity, passively dispersed veliger larval stage, and its ability to attach by byssal threads to hard surfaces such as boat hulls, nets, buoys, and other floating debris allowed it to spread rapidly throughout Lake Erie, the western end of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River (Ram and McMahon, 1996).
		Because zebra mussels are primarily freshwater organisms, their potential distribution in the Gulf of Mexico region will likely be limited to suitable fresh waters and slightly brackish waters.
		Zebra mussels settle on exposed surfaces of the unionid shells; heavy infestation of the zebra mussel on a native mussel may dislodge it from the substratum or cause starvation by reducing food availability (McMahon, 1990).
	nis.gsmfc.org /nis_factsheet.php?toc_id=131 (3117 words)

	Zebra Mussels
		Zebra mussels have already spread as far south as New Orleans, and have been spotted in southern California.
		Zebra mussels often settle in massive colonies and can block raw water intakes, creating havoc on raw water users.
		Another concern over the zebra mussel invasion is the devastation they have caused to native unionids (freshwater clams).
	www.earthwave.org /zmussel.htm (610 words)

	Zebra Mussels
		Zebra mussels are a huge pest accidentally brought into the Great Lakes, possibly on the hulls or in the ballast water of vessels from Europe, which has been plagued by zebra mussels for centuries.
		Zebra mussels were first discovered in 1988 in Lake St. Clair, a small lake between Lake Erie and Lake Huron.
		Zebra mussels are smaller, and as their name suggests, variegated in color.
	octopus.gma.org /surfing/human/zebra.html (1099 words)

	Zebra Mussel: Invader that shook federal policy
		There is great concern that zebra mussels may be unintentionally transported into Western waters by one of the tens of thousands of boaters expected to participate in the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial in 2003.
		Zebra mussels arrived in ballast water probably taken from a European freshwater port.
		Zebra mussels have been estimated to cost $750 million to $1 billion by the turn of the century.
	www.ucsusa.org /invasive_species/zebra-mussel-invader-that-shook-federal-policy.html (0 words)

	Zebra mussel - Invasive species: Minnesota DNR
		Zebra mussels were discovered in the Great Lakes about 1988 in ballast discharge water from ocean-going ships.
		Zebra mussels filter plankton from the surrounding water.
		Remove visible zebra mussels and and aquatic plants and drain water before transporting boats and equipment from one water body to another.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /invasives/aquaticanimals/zebramussel/index.html (0 words)

	VDGIF > Wildlife > Zebra Mussel Eradication at Millbrook Quarry
		VDGIF > Wildlife > Zebra Mussel Eradication at Millbrook Quarry
		Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are freshwater bivalves (clams) native to the Caspian, Black, and Azov seas of eastern Europe.
		To kill the zebra mussels through exposure to potassium, the entire quarry was injected with 174,000 gallons of potassium chloride solution over a 3-week period from January 31 to February 17, 2006.
	www.dgif.state.va.us /zebramussels (0 words)

	Zebra Mussel Information
		Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, are tiny, ranging from approximately 1/64th of an inch (0.5 mm) to 2 inches (50.80 mm), bivalve mollusks that inhabit fresh to brackish or even estuarine waters.
		Zebra mussels are native to Eastern Europe, and it is believed that the planktonic larvae were transported in cargo-ship ballast water to the Great Lakes Region in the mid-to-late 1980’s where they have become an invincible problem to industry and the native species of the area.
		Since zebra mussels are filter feeders, they tend to be stationery, using thin and strong threads (called byssal threads) to adhere to many different surfaces.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /irc/zebra/zmussel1.html (454 words)

	Zebra Mussels in the Great Lakes Region
		Zebra mussels have been linked to a Type E botulism outbreak that killed an estimated 2,900 birds on the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
		Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) are small, fingernail-sized mussels native to the Caspian Sea region of Asia.
		With the discovery of zebra mussels in Lake St. Clair, and the passage of the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Act of 1990, GLERL was charged with developing a major program on nonindigenous species, focusing on the ecosystem and environmental effects of the zebra mussel.
	www.great-lakes.net /envt/flora-fauna/invasive/zebra.html (591 words)

	Zebra Mussel-EATM Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zebra mussels were first discovered in Lake St. Clair in the mid 1980s.
		Zebra mussel eggs are fertilized externally; therefore, males and females must release their gametes (sperm and eggs) simultaneously.
		Zebra Mussel Migration to Inland Lakes and Reservoirs
	ag.ansc.purdue.edu /EXOTICSP/zebra_mussel.htm (1728 words)

	Dynamic Map of Zebra Mussel Distribution
		Zebra mussel sighting locations are represented by yellow and red markers on this map.
		States where zebra mussels have been found in inland and adjacent waters are identified by an orange tint.
		Moving the cursor back and forth over the year indicators on the control bar allows you to view the spread of this invasive species backward and forward in time.
	www.nationalatlas.gov /dynamic/dyn_zm.html (292 words)

	Aquatic Nuisance Species Program - Zebra Mussel
		The zebra mussel is a small freshwater mollusk native to eastern Europe and western Asia.
		Zebra mussels were first found in North America in the Great Lakes in 1988.
		Zebra mussels are an important threat to surface water resources and water uses because of their high reproductive capacity and their ability to attach to underwater objects and surfaces.
	www.dnr.sc.gov /water/envaff/aquatic/zebra.html (312 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)