Aquatic Ecosystems
Aquatic Ecosystems
These are our active and completed studies related to aquatic ecosystems.
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Evaluating Geothermal Groundwater Levels to Support Bruneau Hot Springsnail Recovery
The endangered Bruneau hot springsnail (Pyrgulopsis bruneauensis) exists only in a geographically limited habitat of thermal springs and seeps in southwestern Idaho. As a part of its 2002 recovery plan for the springsnail, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) targeted conservation efforts to increase groundwater levels in the Bruneau area to protect the geothermal spring discharges necessary...