funded by the National Resource Preservation Program,a nation-wide collaborative program,supported by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area,through which USGS and National Park Service staf address priority research needs identifed by the National Park Service;National Park Service staf from the two National Park Service units represented in this study were involved in the development of the study proposal;The study proposal was reviewed and approved for funding by a panel of U.S.Geological Survey and National Park Service scientists.
Background:Reproducing populations of invasive carps(Hypophthalmichthys spp.)could alter aquatic food webs and negatively afect native fshes in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area(MISS)and the St.Croix ...