2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/21/2019 | 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | MURPHY'S LAW AND THE ANALOG JORDAN RIVER, UT: INVASIVES RULE | 254 B
MURPHY'S LAW AND THE ANALOG JORDAN RIVER, UT: INVASIVES RULE
Welcome to the Jordan River. Arguably Utah's most polluted river. What could go wrong did go wrong. The river and its tributaries have been dewatered and channelized starting on the second day of Mormon settlement with no end in sight. Prior; beaver were the dominant ecosystem engineers and at least a dozen native fish species along with one of the most diverse molluscan assemblages in the western USA called the river home. Now invasives completely dominate ecosystem functioning including: Asian clams, New Zealand mud snails, and European carp, to name a few. We will discuss our findings on the ecology of this second rate analog and how at least two invasive species now regulate ecosystem function and water quality, without which the Jordan River would likely function as no more than a conveyance canal.
- Disturbance
- Invasives
- Water Quality
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David Richards
(), OreoHelix Consulting, mudsnail1@hotmail.com;
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Theron Miller
(), Wasatch Front Water Quality Council, theron.miller12@gmail.com;
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