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A Preliminary Survey of Aerial and Ground-Dwelling Insects of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta
EPA Grant Number: R827072C030Subproject: this is subproject number 030 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R827072
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Alabama Center For Estuarine Studies (ACES)
Center Director: Shipp, Robert L.
Title: A Preliminary Survey of Aerial and Ground-Dwelling Insects of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta
Investigators: McCreadie, John W. , Adler, Peter H.
Institution: University of South Alabama , Clemson University
EPA Project Officer: Perovich, Gina
Project Period: August 1, 2000 through December 31, 2003
RFA: Alabama Center For Estuarine Studies (ACES) (1999)
Research Category: Targeted Research
Description:
Objective:In 1995, Mobile Bay became a part of the country's National Estuary Programs (NEP). Included in the NEP study area are the Bay proper and a large section of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta. Much of the 250,000 acres of cypress-gum swamps and bottomland hardwood forests that form the Delta is relatively undisturbed; this is a remarkable fact, given that the Southeast has a much lower percentage of protected land (5 percent of the nation's total) than most other regions of the country (Loomis and Echohawk, 1999). In addition, 15 percent of the nation's water (excluding Alaska) runs through the Delta. Although we suspect that the Delta harbors a wealth of biological diversity, little of the biota has been documented. Using Small Grant for Exploratory Research funds provided by the Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies, a preliminary assessment of the aquatic insect biodiversity of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta was initiated in the spring of 2000. The current project is the next logical step in a preliminary assessment of the Delta (i.e., a survey of aerial and ground-dwelling insects, and a depository for representative specimens). Extrapolating from the literature (Borror, et al., 1992), we conservatively estimate that between 10,000 and 70,000 species of insects inhabit the Delta, many of which will be new to science. The specific objectives of the research project are to: (1) produce a preliminary inventory of adult aerial and ground-dwelling insects of the Delta, including pest species and vectors of human disease (primary objective); (2) provide a preliminary assessment of the terrestrial diversity of the Delta based on the adult insect fauna; (3) establish a metric between habitat location and faunal differences; (4) examine temporal changes in the adult biota; and (5) link patterns of biodiversity and species distributions to higher order ecogeographic features.
Publications and Presentations:Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 1 publications for this subproject | View all 91 publications for this center
Supplemental Keywords:terrestrial, survey, faunistics, insect, ecosystem, ecosystem protection, environmental exposure, risk, geographic area, water, aquatic ecosystem, estuarine research, chemical engineering, chemistry, ecology, ecological effects, human health, ecological indicators, assessment, indicators, environmental chemistry, Alabama, AL, artificial reef design, coastal ecosystem, coastal environments, estuaries, estuarine waters, fishery sampling, human modifications, land use, water use, NEP, biodiversity, pitfall traps, National Estuary Programs. , Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, Water, Geographic Area, Scientific Discipline, RFA, ECOSYSTEMS, Ecosystem/Assessment/Indicators, Restoration, Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, estuarine research, Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems & Estuarine Research, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystem, Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Aquatic Ecosystems, Monitoring/Modeling, State, water quality, insect fauna, Mobile Delta, ground dwelliing insects, genetic diversity, plant-animal interactions, aquatic insects, land use, Alabama (AL), watersheds, coastal environments, coastal ecosystem, bioassessment, ecosystem, estuaries, water use, biodiversity
Progress and Final Reports:
2002 Progress Report
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R827072 Alabama Center For Estuarine Studies (ACES)
Subprojects under this Center:
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R827072C001 Fluorescent Whitening Agents As Facile Pollution Markers In Shellfishing Waters
R827072C002 Red Snapper Demographics on Artificial Reefs: The Effect of Nearest-Neighbor Dynamics
R827072C003 Stabilization of Eroding Shorelines in Estuarine Wave Eliminates with Constructed Fringe Wetlands Incorporating Offshore Breakwaters
R827072C004 Interaction Between Water Column Structure and Reproduction in Jellyfish Populations Of Mobile Bay (SGER)
R827072C005 Effects of Variation in River Discharge and Wind-Driven Resuspension on Higher Trophic Levels in the Mobile Bay Ecosystem
R827072C006 Results of Zooplankton Component
R827072C007 Benthic Study Component
R827072C008 A Preliminary Survey of Macroalgal and Aquatic Plant Distribution in the Mobile Tensaw Delta
R827072C009 Fisheries-induced changes in the structure and function of shallow water "nursery habitats": an experimental assessment
R827072C010 Effects Of Variation in River Discharge and Wind-Driven Resuspension on Lower Trophic Levels of the Mobile Bay Ecosystem
R827072C011 Evaluation of Alabama Estuaries as Developmental Habitat for Juvenile Sea Turtles
R827072C012 Effects of Salinity Stress on Natural and Anthropogenically-Derived Bacteria in Estuarine Environments
R827072C013 The Role of Land-Use/Land-Cover and Sub-estuarine Ecosystem Nitrogen Cycling in the Regulation of Nitrogen Delivery to a River Dominated Estuary; Mobile Bay, Alabama
R827072C014 Environmental Attitudes of Alabama Coastal Residents: Public Opinion Polls and Environmental Policy
R827072C015 Synthesis and Characterization of an Electrochemical Peptide Nucleic Acid Probe
R827072C016 Determinants of Small-Scale Variation in the Abundance of the Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus
R827072C017 Effects of Estrogen Pollution on the Reproductive Fitness of the Gulf Pipefish, Syngnathus scovelli
R827072C019 A Model for Genetic Diversity Aquatic Insects of the Mobile/Tensaw River Delta
R827072C020 Evaluating Trophic Processes as Indicators of Anthropogenic Eutrophication in Coastal Ecosystems: An Exploratory Analysis
R827072C021 Effects of Anthropogenic Eutrophication on the Magnitude and Trophic Fate of Microphytobenthic Production in Estuaries
R827072C022 Characteristics of Ship Waves and Wind Waves in Mobile Bay
R827072C023 Methods Comparison Between Stripping Voltammetry and Plasma Emission Spectroscopy for Metals in Mobile Bay
R827072C024 Changes in Water Conditions and Sedimentation Rates Associated With Construction of the Mobile Bay Causeway
R827072C025 Cold-Induced Hibernation of Marine Vibrios in the Gulf of Mexico: A Study of Cell-Cell Communication and Dormancy in Vibrio vulnificus
R827072C026 Holocene Sedimentary History of Weeks Bay, AL: Human and Natural Impacts on Deposition in a Gulf Coast Estuary
R827072C027 Shelter Bottlenecks and Self-Regulation in Blue Crab Populations: Assessing the Roles of Nursery Habitats and Juvenile Interactions for Shelter Dependent Organisms
R827072C028 Predicting Seagrass Survival in Nutrient Enriched Waters: Toward a New View of an Existing Paradigm
R827072C029 DMSP and its Role as an Antioxidant in the Salt Marsh Macrophyte Spartina alterniflora
R827072C030 A Preliminary Survey of Aerial and Ground-Dwelling Insects of the Mobile/Tensaw Delta
R827072C031 Natural Biogeochemical Tags of Striped Mullet, Mugil cephalus, Estuarine Nursery Areas in the North Central Gulf of Mexico
R827072C032 Resolution of Sedimentation Rates in Impacted Coastal Environments Using 137Cs and 210Pb Markers: Dog River and Fowl River Embayments
R827072C033 Investigation of the Use of Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) Fluorometry as an Indicator of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Health in Mobile Bay
R827072C034 Influence of Invasive Plant Species in Determining Diversity of Aquatic Vegetation in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
R827072C035 The Influence of Shallow Water Hydrodynamics on the Importance of Seagrass Detritus in Estuarine Food Webs
R827072C036 Food Web Interactions, Spatial Subsidies and the Flow of Energy Between the Mobile Bay Delta and Offshore Waters: A SGER Proposal to the Alabama Center for Estuarine Studies
R830651C001 Meteorological Modeling of Hurricanes and Coastal Interactions: A Stability Study For Vertical Pressure Levels
R830651C002 Characterization of Glycoprotein Cues Used by the Parasitic Rhizocephalan Barnacle Loxothylacus texanus To Identify Its Blue Crab Host, Callinectes sapidus
R830651C003 Survey of Diamondback Terrapin Populations in Alabama Estuaries
R830651C004 An Assessment of Environmental Contaminant Levels in Water and Dragonfly Larvae Tissues from the Mobile/Tensaw Delta