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Home > Research by Programs > AIS Aquatic Invasive SpeciesTask Leader: David Reid HighlightsNovirhabdovirus sp - Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) Factsheet Invasive Zooplankton Bloody Red Mysid (Hemimysis anomala) Recently Discovered National Center for Research on Aquatic Invasive Species GLERL hosts NOAA's National Center for Research on Aquatic Invasive Species (NCRAIS) at its Ann Arbor facility. The center will allow NOAA to more effectively organize and coordinate its aquatic invasive species research efforts while ensuring that NOAA resources are focused on nationwide priorities. No Ballast On Board (NOBOB) Final Project Report Current Featured ProjectsMicro-elemental
analysis of statoliths as a tool for tracking tributary origins of sea
lamprey Assessment
of Transoceanic No-Ballast-On-Board (NOBOB) Vessels and Low-Salinity Ballast
Water as Vectors for Nonindigenous Species Introductions to the Great
Lakes Project Complete Listing of GLERL Aquatic Invasive Species Program Projects Data productsGreat Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System Database Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List Conversion of specific gravity to salinity for ballast water regulatory management. NOAA Technical Memorandum GLERL-139. Reid, D.F. (2006) .NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 24 pp. Physical and Chemical Variables of Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron in
1991-1993. NOAA Technical Memorandum TM-091, Nalepa et al. (1996).
Chlorophyll, nutrients, alkalinity, carbon, and total suspended solids
data collected in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron from 1991-1993. Complete Listing of GLERL Data Products Selected Software productsEcoNetwrk software Complete Listing of GLERL Software Products
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Program Background The Great Lakes basin is the aquatic gateway to the heartland of America and a national hot spot for aquatic invasive species (AIS) introductions that can reach other sections of the U.S. Records of aquatic species invasions in the Great Lakes start in the early 1800s. By 2005 at least 182 AIS have been reported in the Great Lakes, with more than 40% discovered since 1960. The rate of discovery since 1960 has not been linear, but for illustrative purposes, can be said to average about one new invader every 28 weeks. Nonindigenous species are now a significant component of most trophic levels in the Great Lakes. GLERL's research on invasive species targets two key issues: 1) The prevention of new invasive species introductions and 2) The understanding of the biological and ecological impacts of nonindigenous species in the Great Lakes. Recent Publications Nalepa, T. F., Fanslow, D. L., and Lang G. 2009.
Transformation of the offshore benthic community in Lake Michigan: recent shift
from the native amphipod Diporeia spp. to the invasive
mussel Dreissena rostriformis bugensis. Freshwater
Biology 54: 466-479. POTHOVEN, S. A., and C. P. Madenjian. Changes in consumption by alewives and lake whitefish after Dreissenid mussel invasions in Lakes Michigan and Huron. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:308-320 (2008). Gray, D. K., T. H. JOHENGEN, D. F. REID, and H. J. MacIsaac. Efficacy of open-ocean ballast water exchange as a means of preventing invertebrate invasions between freshwater ports. Limnology and Oceanography 52(6):2386-2397 (2007). Selected Brochures Exotic, Invasive,
Alien, Nonindigenous, or Nuisance Species: No matter what you call them,
they're a growing problem Aquatic Invasive Species
and the Great Lakes: Simple Questions, Complex Answers
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