Ecology of an Invasive Pest Bivalve, Corbicula

Spatial and temporal variation in biomass and size structure of Corbicula fluminea in Danube River catchment, Hungary

“…The coarse and very fine sediment fractions, the high water temperature and the low benthic organic matter content in very fine fraction of sediment provided suitable habitat for C. fluminea and resulted in high biomass values. These results are in accordance with previous studies, which demonstrated that C. fluminea reached its maximum abundance at sites with coarse and find sand, or small gravel sized substrate (McMahon 1983;Belanger et al 1991;Bagatini et al 2007;Sousa et al 2008c).…”

Spatial and temporal variation in biomass and size structure of Corbicula fluminea in Danube River catchment, Hungary

“…The coarse and very fine sediment fractions, the high water temperature and the low benthic organic matter content in very fine fraction of sediment provided suitable habitat for C. fluminea and resulted in high biomass values. These results are in accordance with previous studies, which demonstrated that C. fluminea reached its maximum abundance at sites with coarse and find sand, or small gravel sized substrate (McMahon 1983;Belanger et al 1991;Bagatini et al 2007;Sousa et al 2008c).…”

Evaluation of the recovery of waterborne Giardia cysts by freshwater clams and cyst detection in clam tissue

“…C.¯uminea is an ecient ®lter-feeder which in the natural aquatic habitat can remove up to 75% of the seston (McMahon 1982(McMahon , 1983. As demonstrated in the present experiments, the ®ltration rate of CFW was considerably faster than the rate of tap water ®ltration and was similar to the rate obtained for distilled water.…”

The Presence of the Asiatic Clam,Corbiculasp., from Lake Superior

“…density reported here is significantly less than that reported elsewhere (Gardner et al 1976, Eng 1979, McMahon 1983), but they have high fecundity and capacity to reproduce at an early age (at < 1 year, Kenndy and Huekelem 1985). Thus hot water discharges from individual sources will likely serve as thermal refugia allowing population expansion.…”

Spatial and temporal variation in biomass and size structure of Corbicula fluminea in Danube River catchment, Hungary

“…The coarse and very fine sediment fractions, the high water temperature and the low benthic organic matter content in very fine fraction of sediment provided suitable habitat for C. fluminea and resulted in high biomass values. These results are in accordance with previous studies, which demonstrated that C. fluminea reached its maximum abundance at sites with coarse and find sand, or small gravel sized substrate (McMahon 1983;Belanger et al 1991;Bagatini et al 2007;Sousa et al 2008c).…”

Evaluation of the recovery of waterborne Giardia cysts by freshwater clams and cyst detection in clam tissue

“…C.¯uminea is an ecient ®lter-feeder which in the natural aquatic habitat can remove up to 75% of the seston (McMahon 1982(McMahon , 1983. As demonstrated in the present experiments, the ®ltration rate of CFW was considerably faster than the rate of tap water ®ltration and was similar to the rate obtained for distilled water.…”

The Presence of the Asiatic Clam,Corbiculasp., from Lake Superior

“…density reported here is significantly less than that reported elsewhere (Gardner et al 1976, Eng 1979, McMahon 1983), but they have high fecundity and capacity to reproduce at an early age (at < 1 year, Kenndy and Huekelem 1985). Thus hot water discharges from individual sources will likely serve as thermal refugia allowing population expansion.…”

Spatial and temporal variation in biomass and size structure of Corbicula fluminea in Danube River catchment, Hungary

“…The coarse and very fine sediment fractions, the high water temperature and the low benthic organic matter content in very fine fraction of sediment provided suitable habitat for C. fluminea and resulted in high biomass values. These results are in accordance with previous studies, which demonstrated that C. fluminea reached its maximum abundance at sites with coarse and find sand, or small gravel sized substrate (McMahon 1983;Belanger et al 1991;Bagatini et al 2007;Sousa et al 2008c).…”

Evaluation of the recovery of waterborne Giardia cysts by freshwater clams and cyst detection in clam tissue

“…C.¯uminea is an ecient ®lter-feeder which in the natural aquatic habitat can remove up to 75% of the seston (McMahon 1982(McMahon , 1983. As demonstrated in the present experiments, the ®ltration rate of CFW was considerably faster than the rate of tap water ®ltration and was similar to the rate obtained for distilled water.…”

The Presence of the Asiatic Clam,Corbiculasp., from Lake Superior

“…density reported here is significantly less than that reported elsewhere (Gardner et al 1976, Eng 1979, McMahon 1983), but they have high fecundity and capacity to reproduce at an early age (at < 1 year, Kenndy and Huekelem 1985). Thus hot water discharges from individual sources will likely serve as thermal refugia allowing population expansion.…”