Publication Date:
2001-02-24
Description:
Conservationists have long contended, largely in impressionistic terms, that 70 years of American dam building and water diversion have destroyed the biological richness of the Colorado River delta, a key nursery of marine life at the end of the Southwest's great watercourse. Now researchers have confirmed those suspicions, using an important ecological player--clams--as a quantitative marker.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Muro, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Dec 15;290(5499):2045-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11187814" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Bivalvia
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Conservation of Natural Resources
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*Ecosystem
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*Fresh Water
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Paleontology
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Southwestern United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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