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FINAL REPORT Status Survey for Three Rare Alabama Crayfishes
FINAL REPORT Status Survey for three rare Alabama crayfishes, Cambarus cracens, Cambarus scotti, and Cambarus unestami ILLINOIS NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY PRAIRIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN 1816 S. OAK CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820 INHS TECHNICAL REPORT 2012(21) BY Stephanie L. Kilburn Illinois Natural History Survey 1816 S. Oak Champaign, IL 61820 Christopher A. Taylor, Ph. D. Illinois Natural History Survey 1816 S. Oak Champaign, IL 61820 AND Guenter A. Schuster, Ph.D. 305 Boone Way Richmond, KY 40475 PREPARED FOR: U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alabama Ecological Services Field Office 1208-B Main Street Daphne, AL 36526 20 July 2012 Introduction The Southeastern United States is famous for aquatic biodiversity. This area is known as a hotspot for fish and mussel species and is the most diverse region in the world for freshwater crayfishes. Because of this, the region is also an area of great conservation concern. A review by Taylor et al. (2007) found that nearly half of the crayfish in the area were in need of some conservation attention. This is of particular importance for the state of Alabama and its 85 species of crayfish, some of which are limited to a single drainage and are still substantially understudied. Three such species were the focus of the current study. The Slender Claw crayfish, Cambarus cracens, the Chattooga River Crayfish, C. scotti, and the Blackbarred Crayfish, C. unestami each have limited ranges confined to northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. As such they are vulnerable to population declines due to single catastrophic events and are listed as either Endangered (C. -
Scientific Support for Successful Implementation of the Natura 2000 Network
Scientific support for successful implementation of the Natura 2000 network Focus Area B Guidance on the application of existing scientific approaches, methods, tools and knowledge for a better implementation of the Birds and Habitat Directives Environment FOCUS AREA B SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT FOR SUCCESSFUL i IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATURA 2000 NETWORK Imprint Disclaimer This document has been prepared for the European Commis- sion. The information and views set out in the handbook are Citation those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the Van der Sluis, T. & Schmidt, A.M. (2021). E-BIND Handbook (Part B): Scientific support for successful official opinion of the Commission. The Commission does not implementation of the Natura 2000 network. Wageningen Environmental Research/ Ecologic Institute /Milieu guarantee the accuracy of the data included. The Commission Ltd. Wageningen, The Netherlands. or any person acting on the Commission’s behalf cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information Authors contained therein. Lead authors: This handbook has been prepared under a contract with the Anne Schmidt, Chris van Swaay (Monitoring of species and habitats within and beyond Natura 2000 sites) European Commission, in cooperation with relevant stakehold- Sander Mücher, Gerard Hazeu (Remote sensing techniques for the monitoring of Natura 2000 sites) ers. (EU Service contract Nr. 07.027740/2018/783031/ENV.D.3 Anne Schmidt, Chris van Swaay, Rene Henkens, Peter Verweij (Access to data and information) for evidence-based improvements in the Birds and Habitat Kris Decleer, Rienk-Jan Bijlsma (Guidance and tools for effective restoration measures for species and habitats) directives (BHD) implementation: systematic review and meta- Theo van der Sluis, Rob Jongman (Green Infrastructure and network coherence) analysis). -
New Alien Crayfish Species in Central Europe
NEW ALIEN CRAYFISH SPECIES IN CENTRAL EUROPE Introduction pathways, life histories, and ecological impacts DISSERTATION zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades Dr. rer. nat. der Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften der Universität Ulm vorgelegt von Christoph Chucholl aus Rosenheim Ulm 2012 NEW ALIEN CRAYFISH SPECIES IN CENTRAL EUROPE Introduction pathways, life histories, and ecological impacts DISSERTATION zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades Dr. rer. nat. der Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften der Universität Ulm vorgelegt von Christoph Chucholl aus Rosenheim Ulm 2012 Amtierender Dekan: Prof. Dr. Axel Groß Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Manfred Ayasse Zweitgutachter: Prof. apl. Dr. Gerhard Maier Tag der Prüfung: 16.7.2012 Cover picture: Orconectes immunis male (blue color morph) (photo courtesy of Dr. H. Bellmann) Table of contents Part 1 – Summary Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1 Invasive alien species – a global menace ....................................................................... 1 “Invasive” matters .......................................................................................................... 2 Crustaceans – successful invaders .................................................................................. 4 The case of alien crayfish in Europe .............................................................................. 5 New versus Old alien crayfish ....................................................................................... -
New Crayfish Species Records from the Sipsey Fork Drainage, Including Lewis Smith Reservoir (Alabama, USA): Native Or Introduced Species? Susan B
Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Biological Sciences Faculty and Staff Research Biological Sciences 2015 New Crayfish Species Records from the Sipsey Fork Drainage, Including Lewis Smith Reservoir (Alabama, USA): Native or Introduced Species? Susan B. Adams USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Oxford, Mississippi Craig Roghair USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Stream Biota and Habitat Team, Blacksburg, Virginia Colin Krause USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Oxford, Mississippi Melvin L. Warren Jr 1 USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Oxford, Mississippi J. Allison Cochran USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Alabama, Bankhead National Forest, Double Springs, AL See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/bio_fsresearch Part of the Biology Commons Recommended Citation Freshwater Crayfish 21(1):17–32, 2015 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5869/fc.2015.v21-1.17 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biological Sciences at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biological Sciences Faculty and Staff Research by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Susan B. Adams; Craig Roghair; Colin Krause; Melvin L. Warren Jr; J. Allison Cochran; Andy Dolloff,; John Moran; Stuart W. McGregor; Guenter A. Schuster; Michael Gangloff; Dennis R. DeVries; Michael R. Kendrick; G. Lee Grove; and Russell A. Wright This article is available at Encompass: http://encompass.eku.edu/bio_fsresearch/7 See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290446494 New crayfish species records from the Sipsey Fork drainage, including Lewis Smith Reservoir (Alabama, USA): native or introduced species? ARTICLE · JANUARY 2015 DOI: 10.5869/fc.2015.v21-1.17 READS 6 14 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Susan B Adams Dennis R. -
Children's Perceptions of Rainforest Biodiversity
Children’s Perceptions of Rainforest Biodiversity: Which Animals Have the Lion’s Share of Environmental Awareness? Jake L. Snaddon1., Edgar C. Turner1,2.*, William A. Foster1 1 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, 2 Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Wildlife Trusts, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom Abstract Globally, natural ecosystems are being lost to agricultural land at an unprecedented rate. This land-use often results in significant reductions in abundance and diversity of the flora and fauna as well as alterations in their composition. Despite this, there is little public perception of which taxa are most important in terms of their total biomass, biodiversity or the ecosystem services they perform. Such awareness is important for conservation, as without appreciation of their value and conservation status, species are unlikely to receive adequate conservation protection. We investigated children’s perceptions of rainforest biodiversity by asking primary-age children, visiting the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge to draw their ideal rainforest. By recording the frequency at which children drew different climatic, structural, vegetative and faunal components of the rainforest, we were able to quantify children’s understanding of a rainforest environment. We investigated children’s perceptions of rainforest biodiversity by comparing the relative numbers of the taxa drawn with the actual contributions made by these taxa to total rainforest biomass and global biodiversity. We found that children have a sophisticated view of the rainforest, incorporating many habitat features and a diverse range of animals. However, some taxa were over-represented (particularly mammals, birds and reptiles) and others under-represented (particularly insects and annelids) relative to their contribution to total biomass and species richness. -
Common Nighthawk Chordeiles Minor
COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor in Canada SPECIAL CONCERN 2018 COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows: COSEWIC. 2018. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xi + 50 pp. (http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=en&n=24F7211B-1). Previous report(s): COSEWIC 2007. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xi + 25 pp. (www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/status_e.cfm). Production note: COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Andrew Gregg Horn for writing the status report on Common Nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, prepared under contract with Environment and Climate Change Canada. This report was overseen and edited by Richard Elliot, Co-chair of the COSEWIC Birds Specialist Subcommittee. For additional copies contact: COSEWIC Secretariat c/o Canadian Wildlife Service Environment and Climate Change Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Tel.: 819-938-4125 Fax: 819-938-3984 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cosewic.gc.ca Également disponible en français sous le titre Ếvaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur L’engoulevent d’Amérique (Chordeiles minor) au Canada. Cover illustration/photo: Common Nighthawk, copyright by Ronnie d'Entremont. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2018. Catalogue No. CW69-14/515-2018E-PDF ISBN 978-0-660-27850-6 COSEWIC Assessment Summary Assessment Summary – April 2018 Common name Common Nighthawk Scientific name Chordeiles minor Status Special Concern Reason for designation This aerial insectivore is a widespread breeding bird across southern and boreal Canada. -
Revision and Updating of the Strategic Plan: Possible Outline and Elements of the New Strategic Plan from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Revision and updating of the strategic plan: possible outline and elements of the new strategic plan from the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) A response by Wildlife and Countryside Link Wildlife and Countryside Link (Link) brings together 35 voluntary organisations concerned with the conservation and protection of wildlife and the countryside. Our members practise and advocate environmentally sensitive land management, and encourage respect for and enjoyment of natural landscapes and features, the historic and marine environment and biodiversity. Taken together our members have the support of over 8 million people in the UK and manage over 690,000 hectares of land. This document is supported by the following 15 organisations; • Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust • Badger Trust • Bat Conservation Trust • Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust • Butterfly Conservation • Campaign to Protect Rural England • Friends of the Earth England • The Grasslands Trust • The Mammal Society • Marine Conservation Society • Plantlife International • Royal Society for the Protection of Birds • Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust • The Wildlife Trusts • Woodland Trust 1. Overview Link agrees that the new CBD strategic plan should provide a framework for establishing national targets. In the UK, we should seek to ensure that the targets in the strategic plan are robust and challenging enough to drive cross-sectoral delivery and push us on to achieving the ultimate aims of halting and reversing the biodiversity loss we continue to observe. We support the suggested strategic plan title “Sustaining Life on Earth” since this accurately places biodiversity at the heart of sustainable living. Our comments relate to the position statement developed by Link throughout 2009 (Annex1) in respect of a post-2010 biodiversity target and possible sub-targets. -
Dr Richard M. Smith, Buglife, First Floor, 90 Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1DY 2
EIDCF004 - revised Submit by 12 March 2010 DARWIN INITIATIVE APPLICATION FOR OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CHALLENGE FUND: Round 17 Please read the Guidance Notes before completing this form. 1. Name, postal address and contact details of applicant organisation and main individual: (notification of results will be by email to this individual) Dr Richard M. Smith, Buglife, First Floor, 90 Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1DY 2. Working title/name of the proposed resulting Darwin project (not exceeding 10 words): Laying the foundations for invertebrate conservation on St Helena. 3. Proposed UKOT(s) involved (in Challenge Other collaborating country/ies (including Fund award): metropolitan UK if appropriate) to be involved St Helena in the proposed resultant project: 4. Principals in Challenge Fund work (a) Please give the details of the main individuals (max 2) from the applicant organisation who will be directly involved in the Challenge Fund award. CVs must be enclosed (max 2 pages each). Details Main individual 2nd individual Surname Smith Key Forename(s) Richard Michael Roger Post held UKOTs Project Officer Entomological Consultant Department Conservation Projects n/a Telephone Email (b) Prospective collaborating partners relevant to the Challenge Fund award. Please provide details below, plus letters of support. (These letters should express their intention to collaborate, their contribution to the Challenge Fund activity, their endorsement of the proposed partnership, and the expect contribution of the proposed resultant Darwin project to the conservation of the biodiversity of the relevant UKOT(s).) Details Main project partner Other partners Organisation St Helena National Trust St Helena Government (SHNT) (Agriculture & Natural Resources Dept., ANRD) Function/ Purpose of The SHNT is an NGO responsible The ANRD delivers the island’s Organisation for the protection, enhancement Environmental Conservation and promotion of St Helena’s programme. -
RSPB CENTRE for CONSERVATION SCIENCE RSPB CENTRE for CONSERVATION SCIENCE Where Science Comes to Life
RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE Where science comes to life Contents Knowing 2 Introducing the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science and an explanation of how and why the RSPB does science. A decade of science at the RSPB 9 A selection of ten case studies of great science from the RSPB over the last decade: 01 Species monitoring and the State of Nature 02 Farmland biodiversity and wildlife-friendly farming schemes 03 Conservation science in the uplands 04 Pinewood ecology and management 05 Predation and lowland breeding wading birds 06 Persecution of raptors 07 Seabird tracking 08 Saving the critically endangered sociable lapwing 09 Saving South Asia's vultures from extinction 10 RSPB science supports global site-based conservation Spotlight on our experts 51 Meet some of the team and find out what it is like to be a conservation scientist at the RSPB. Funding and partnerships 63 List of funders, partners and PhD students whom we have worked with over the last decade. Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) Conservation rooted in know ledge Introduction from Dr David W. Gibbons Welcome to the RSPB Centre for Conservation The Centre does not have a single, physical Head of RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Science. This new initiative, launched in location. Our scientists will continue to work from February 2014, will showcase, promote and a range of RSPB’s addresses, be that at our UK build the RSPB’s scientific programme, helping HQ in Sandy, at RSPB Scotland’s HQ in Edinburgh, us to discover solutions to 21st century or at a range of other addresses in the UK and conservation problems. -
Proceedings Biological Society of Washington
Vol. 88, No. 43, pp. 459-468 22 January 1976 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ORCONECTES ETNIER1, A NEW SPECIES OF CRAYFISH FROM WESTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI WITH NOTES ON PROCAMBARUS ABLUSUS AND ORCONECTES WRIGHTI BY RAYMOND W. BOUCHARD AND JUDITH W. BOUCHARD National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 This new species of crayfish is known from the Mississippi Embayment province of Tennessee in the Tennessee, Forked Deer, Hatchie and Loosahatchie River systems where it is one of the more common species. In many western Tennessee col- lections from fluvial environments, it was the only species represented. Two of its associates, Procambarus (Pennides) ablusus Penn (1963:121) and Orconectes wrighti Hobbs (1948: 85), are known from only a few specimens. Procambarus ab- lusus was described on the basis of 7 specimens (4 adults) from 5 localities in Mississippi and Tennessee. Until recently, O. wrighti was known from only 11 specimens collected at the type-locality. Large populations of P. ablusus are more com- mon in the Forked Deer River system, while O. wrighti occurs in an additional larger downstream tributary (see below) of the Tennessee River. Orconectes etnieri, new species Figure la-k Orconectes immunis.—Penn, 1963:125. Diagnosis: Body and eyes with pigment. Rostrum without marginal tubercles (may be present on juveniles). Areola 4.2 to 7.2 times longer than broad, constituting 26.3 to 30.3 percent of total length of carapace (35.4 to 39.4 percent of postorbital carapace length) with 2 to 4 punc- tations across narrowest part. -
Use of Edible Alien Crayfish for Human Consumption
CRUSTACEAN RESEARCH, SPECIAL NUMBER 7: 115–124, 2012 Use of edible alien crayfish for human consumption Toshifumi Nonaka Abstract.—In Japan alien crayfish (the 2011; Kawai, 2007). In addition, they signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus and were initially introduced as a food item for the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii) Japanese people. Therefore, the use as a food have increased. Alien crayfishes have a major is a potential method of reducing the number impact on Japanese freshwater ecosystems, and of alien crayfish. new methods for protection and conservation In this present paper, I will present some are needed. I give the Information as a kind of examples to show how to prepare the alien conservation by using on culinary use of edible. crayfish of P. leniusculus and P. clarkii. Alien crayfish in Japan INTRODUCTION In Japan, there are three species Pacifastacus leniusculus (Invasive Alien of crayfish. One is a native species, Species)(Photo. 1) Cambaroides japonicus, and two are Pacifastacus leniusculus (hereafter: signal alien species, Procambarus clarkii and crayfish) was originally introduced into Japan Pacifastacus leniusculus. P. clarkii are in the early period of Showa (1927–1930) as widely distributed in Japan, and are a food item for cultivation. damaging aquatic ecosystems in Japan. P. Although cultivation of this species was leniusculus are rapidly expanding distribution attempted in national fisheries experimental in Hokkaido and this species is damaging stations, the attempt was only successful ecosystems in Japan. It has been designated in Lake Tankaitameike in northern Shiga as an Invasive Alien Species (Ministry of the Prefecture and in Lake Mashu in Hokkaido. -
“Lobster” (Astacopsis Gouldi) Habitat Still Vulnerable!
March 2006 Volume 28, Issue 1 ISSN 1023-8174 The Official Newsletter of the International Association of Astacology Inside this issue: UPDATE: Giant Tasmanian “Lobster” Cover Story 1 (Astacopsis gouldi) Habitat Still Vulnerable! Presidents Corner 2 Short Articles 4 One More Record of 4 Cherax quadricarinatus in Mexico Updates on the 4 distribution of the white-clawed and the narrow-clawed crayfish in Croatia Color Variation in 5 Procambarus clarkii Panama City Crayfish— 6 Status Assessment Still on time: Can we 6 recover the white- clawed crayfish in Spain? New Books 8 News From Around 10 the World LARGE SPECIMEN OF ASTACOPSIS GOULDI FOUND: This photo depicts “Ivan” the 4.55kg Meetings and 11 (10.0 lb) specimen mentioned in the cover story. Photo ©2006 by Todd Walsh. Workshops As this update is published, the now be under threat from land clear- IAA Related News 13 Federal Government is considering the ing and siltation. Recovery Plan for Astacopsis gouldi Any Class 4 stream above 250m elevation Literature of 14 that has been signed off by the Tasma- will not get a 30m buffer. Interest to nian Government. The Tasmanian Gov- Astacologists ernment has not accepted the recom- Here is how the Habitat Assessment mendation of the majority of the Re- works: IAA Membership 15 covery Team to implement 30m buffers Application on smaller streams in the range of A 1. UNSUITABLE HABITAT gouldi. A habitat assessment plan has • all stream reaches > 400m elevation been put forward instead. within catchments known or likely to Papers from IAA 15 are The Government and Forest Indus- contain A.