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Brine Shrimp Predation by an Invertebrate Predator in Farmington Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah

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Title Brine Shrimp Predation by an Invertebrate Predator in Farmington Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Creator Marcarelli, Amy M. Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A.
Description Farmington Bay is a hypereutrophic embayment of the Great Salt Lake. Monitoring of brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana Kellogg) populations had indicated that brine shrimp densities in Farmington Bay are only 61% of those in the Great Salt Lake. Lower densities may be due to water quality issues or to predation by an invertebrate predator, the water boatman (Trichocorixa verticalis) that thrives in the lower salinity water of Farmington Bay. To determine the impacts of water boatman predation...
Date 2004-03-25T08:00:00Z
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Identifier https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/566
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Source Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications
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Subject Life Sciences Physical Sciences and Mathematics Social and Behavioral Sciences

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