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Why is it important to prioritize restoring and protecting wetlands?
🚰 Ensure access to clean water
🌎 Mitigate effects of extreme weather
🌾 Protect habitats and biodiversity
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These folks represent a critical step in natural resource conservation and need to remain funded!
We enhance graduate education in wildlife and fisheries and to facilitate research and technical assistance among natural resource agencies on topics of mutual concern. The success of our program lies in our cooperative approach.
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New paper from my PhD 🧬🐬
Admixture is increasing genetic diversity and adaptive potential in low latitude killer whales promoting an genetic rescue effect.
See more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Description of the Sicklefin Redhorse (Catostomidae: Moxostoma) by Robert E. Jenkins, Scott D. Favrot, Byron J. Freeman, Brett Albanese, and Jonathan W. Armbruster
Date of publication: 18 February 2025
OPEN ACCESS DOI link: doi.org/10.1643/i2024049
ALT Live specimen of female, female, 350 mm SL of Moxostoma ugidatli, AUM 86445, by S. Fraley
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My limnology class spent the afternoon sampling fish and aquatic macroinvertebrates on Shoal Creek.
Pictured is a Plains Orangethroat Darter.
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It is always an honor to see the smallest endangered species that is listed. The Tumbling Creek Cavesnail (Antrobia culveri) is found only in one cave and the largest adults tend to be around 2mm. – at Missouri, USA
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It was a cold, but successful day sampling aquatic macroinvertebrates and fish with my limnology class on Mill Creek.
Pictured is a Fantail Darter.
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Early career ecologists: take it easy on your joints. Recovering from shoulder surgery is really tough/painful. Know your limits and don’t push it. You have a long career ahead of you!
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This was a fascinating presentation on allopatry, vicariance, dispersal, geomorphology, and their influence on darter evolution. Would be a great supplement to any evolution course discussing these topics. Highly recommend!
On Tuesday I had the privilege to present on online talk in the NOAA seminar series. This talk focuses on my research group's work on allopatric speciation in North American freshwater fishes.
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1/5 New from the #NearLab, genomics and morphology demonstrate the famous Snail Darter, Percina tanasi, the little fish that swam to the United States Supreme Court is not a distinct species...
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Open access at Current Biology
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The Christmas Darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi), Merry Christmas!
📸: William Hull
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Ringed Crayfish (Faxonius neglectus - formerly Orconectes neglectus) photographed in a cave river, Delaware Co., OK, USA.
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Interested in early life stages of fish, hypoxia, and freshwater coastal wetlands? Please join me on 12/16 at 9:00 AM EST for my PhD capstone presentation! Shoot me a DM for the Zoom password if interested!
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Most snowy owls that visit Mo. are juveniles that may fly south due to a lack of space for territories after breeding season; these younger owls have extensive black barring on their otherwise white body and head, like this one seen yesterday in northern Mo!
📸Mark Ramsey
ALT Juvenile snowy owl perches on a post in northern Missouri
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My student Griffin just sent me this profoundly sad photo of a Great Bowerbird bower. The painting on the right depicts what the bower should look like, filled with pebbles, shells, and bones. Nowadays, the birds use what they can most easily find in their surroundings: garbage.
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How Many Fish Species Are in North America?
by Schmitter-Soto, Bemis, Dowling, Espinosa-Pérez, Findley, Gilbert, Hartel, Lea, Mandrak, Neighbors, Walker Jr., and Page.
Open Access DOI link: doi.org/10.1643/i2023047
ALT Region covered by the 8th edition of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico prepared by the American Fisheries Society/American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (AFS/ASIH) Committee on Names of Fishes. Canada, the USA, and Mexico and their respective exclusive economic zones (EEZs) are shown. Note that Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other territories outside of continental North America are not included in the list. Dashed lines indicate the ocean boundaries. (A) Species richness, showing the number of marine versus freshwater species in each country (darker tones represent marine species). (B) Species richness by habitat (freshwater in orange, marine in blue). (C) Number of introduced and extinct species in each country.