2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/21/2018 | 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE: INTEGRATING ECOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY TO CONSERVE ALABAMA'S BURROWING CRAYFISH POPULATIONS AND GROUNDWATER RESOURCES | 410 B
BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE: INTEGRATING ECOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY TO CONSERVE ALABAMA'S BURROWING CRAYFISH POPULATIONS AND GROUNDWATER RESOURCES
Combine the desire to establish conservation opportunities for a diverse and understudied group of aquatic species with the need to learn more about Alabama’s groundwater resources, and the result is a research direction that uses borrowing crayfish habitat preferences to bridge the gap between ecology and hydrogeology. Because burrowing crayfish spend most of their lives in subterranean burrows far from surface water, they rely heavily on access to shallow groundwater, a resource that may be more limiting during periods of drought or subject to periodic withdrawals to satisfy human demands. In order to better understand the dynamics of shallow groundwater movement and its relationship to the habitat needs of burrowing crayfish, I am measuring groundwater flow, groundwater quality, soil characteristics, and the floodplain inundation potential of a 10 km reach of Bogue Chitto Creek in the Blackbelt Prairie region of Alabama. The results of this research will provide information needed to address potential habitat threats through a watershed management plan focused on burrowing crayfish conservation and supply groundwater flow data useful in the development of a statewide groundwater monitoring program.
- Conservation
- Hydrology
- Groundwater
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Rebecca Bearden
(), University of Alabama, rabearden@crimson.ua.edu;
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Alexander D. Huryn
(), The University of Alabama, huryn@ua.edu;
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