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  • Record-setting heat this summer and lack of rain have halted the flow on this part of the Brazos, and Notropis buccula and Notropis oxyrhynchus have been stuck in isolated pools.

    Scientists Fish for Way to Save Shiners Ana Campoy 2011

  • For example, increasing the number of cyprinids that consume plankton (e.g., emerald shiner – Notropis atherinoides, lake chub – Couesius plumbeus) in northern waters will possibly divert energy from existing planktivores (e.g., ciscoes) and reduce their population abundances.

    Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

  • Chiefly or strictly Piedmont fish species include Notropis alborus, Notropis altipinnis, Fundulus rathbuni, Etheostoma vitreum, and Etheostoma collis (Jenkins and, 1993).

    Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008

  • F Courtin et al. Acute and chronic toxicity of ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate to the endangered Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) and fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

    Wildlife Disease News Digest noreply@blogger.com (Wildlife Disease Information 2010

  • F Courtin et al. Acute and chronic toxicity of ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate to the endangered Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka) and fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

    Wildlife Disease News Digest 2010

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