Use of complex hydraulic variables to predict the distribution and density of unionids in a side channel of the Upper Mississippi River

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 610, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-82

  Steuer, Jeffrey J ^a   Newton, Teresa J ^a   Zigler, Steven J ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary shear stress; Freshwater mussels; Habitat; Hydraulics; Modelling

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID MECHANICS; FOOD PROCESSING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLURGY; MIXED CONVECTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHENIUM; SHEAR STRESS; SHEARING MACHINES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BIOTIC FACTORS; BOUNDARY SHEAR STRESS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE (CART) ANALYSIS; CURRENT VELOCITY; DESCRIPTORS; DISCRIMINANT MODELS; FLOW REGIMES; GRAIN SIZES; HIGH FLOW CONDITIONS; HYDRAULIC VARIABLES; LARGE RIVERS; LOW FLOWS; MUSSELS (MYTILUS EDULIS); PARTICLE SIZE DATA; PHYSICAL HABITAT; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS (CO); SHEAR VELOCITY (VS); SIDE CHANNELS; SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT; THRESHOLD LIMITS; UPPER MISSISSIPPI; WATER DEPTHS; WISCONSIN (USA);

CURRENT DENSITY;

BIVALVE; CURRENT VELOCITY; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRAULICS; MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RIVER CHANNEL; SHEAR STRESS;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; PRAIRIE DU CHIEN; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

UNIONIDAE;

EID: 46749139423     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9423-z     Document Type: Article

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