Oxygen Depletion Events Control the Invasive Golden Mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) in a Tropical Floodplain

• Published in: Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.) Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 705 - 716
• Main Authors: Oliveira, Márcia D., Hamilton, Stephen K., Calheiros, Debora F., Jacobi, Claudia M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2010; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acidification; Alkalinity; Annual variations; Anoxic conditions; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Calcification; Carbon dioxide; Chemistry; Coastal Sciences; Depletion; Ecology; Environmental Management; Floodplains; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Hydrogeology; Hypoxia; Indigenous species; Introduced species; Laboratory tests; Lakes; Landscape Ecology; Life Sciences; Limnoperna fortunei; Mollusks; Mussels; Nonnative species; Oxygen; Oxygen depletion; Rivers; Scientific imaging; Temperature effects; Water temperature; Wetlands; South America; Argentina; Mississippi; United States > US; China; Brazil; Paraguay; Pantanal Basin; Paraguay River; Paraguay river; Calcification; Environmental tolerance; Pantanal wetland

Over the past 10 years the golden mussel ( Limnoperna fortunei ), an exotic species native to eastern Asia, has become widespread and abundant in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil. Oxygen concentrations are often low in rivers and floodplain waters of the Pantanal and oxygen depletion events can last for...