Go with the flow: Impacts of high and low flow conditions on freshwater mussel assemblages and distribution.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the drivers of distribution and assemblage composition of aquatic organisms is an important aspect of management and conservation, especially in freshwater systems that are inordinately facing increasing anthropogenic pressures and decreasing biodiversity. For stream organisms, habitat conditions during high flows may be impossible to measure in the field, but can be an important factor for their distribution, especially for less mobile organisms like freshwater mussels. Hence, the objective of this study was to use a two dimensional HEC-RAS model to simulate hydraulic conditions during high and baseline flows (flows approx. 10-600 x and 0.7 x median daily flows respectively) in a 20 km segment in the San Saba River, Texas in combination with existing mussel survey data from

SUBMITTER: Cushway KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10868800 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature