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1978

Aquatic ecosystems

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Primary Productivity, Water Quality, And Limiting Factors In Lake Chicot, Edmond J. Bacon Jan 1978

Primary Productivity, Water Quality, And Limiting Factors In Lake Chicot, Edmond J. Bacon

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Primary productivity, water quality, and limiting factors of productivity were studied in Lake Chicot from 1 July 1975 to 30 September 1977 to ascertain the ameliorating effects of a comprehensive water quality improvement project. The upper lake receives only limited local run-off, but run-off from 350 square miles of agricultural land enters the lower lake through Connerly Bayou, the principal polluted tributary. Run-off over the predominantly silt and clay soils in the subsidized agricultural area contributes excessive amounts of colloidal silt and clay to the lower lake. Connerly Bayou also contributes additional amounts of nutrients including calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, …


Pre- And Post Impoundment Ichthyoparasite Succession In A New Arkansas Reservoir, David A. Becker, William D. Carr, Robert G. Heard, Donald G. Cloutman, Perry D. Holmes, Wallace A. Evans, Mitchell D. Norman, Wilbur B. Owen Jr. Jan 1978

Pre- And Post Impoundment Ichthyoparasite Succession In A New Arkansas Reservoir, David A. Becker, William D. Carr, Robert G. Heard, Donald G. Cloutman, Perry D. Holmes, Wallace A. Evans, Mitchell D. Norman, Wilbur B. Owen Jr.

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Helminth and crustacean parasites from 2,387 Micropterus dolomieui, M. punctulatus, and M. salmoides were utilized to monitor annual pre- and postimpoundment succession patterns spanning eight con- tinuous years in Beaver Reservoir, Arkansas. Incidence of infection by ichthyoparasites with direct life cycles (monogenetic trematodes, leeches, and crustaceans) generally increased following impoundment, although leeches remained relatively constant. Exceptions to this general pattern occurred. Incidence of ichthyoparasites with indirect life cycles (digenetic trematodes, cestodes, acanthocephalans, and nematodes) decreased immediately following impoundment with subsequent increases to a point equal or above that of preimpoundment, although exceptions occurred. Time for species adaptation to the reservoir …