USGS funding via CESU partner to map and predict black carp habitats in the Mississippi River Basin
USGS will fund a cooperative agreement with an affiliated partner through the Great Rivers CESU to study where black carp are likely to live in the upper Mississippi River and Illinois River. The project will combine capture records, biologist specimens, and telemetry data with geospatial analysis to build a habitat-prediction framework that improves monitoring and targeted removal. Findings w…
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on understanding the habitat of Black Carp in the Mississippi River Basin.Black carp are an invasive molluscivore in North America, initially transported to aquaculture facilities in the 1980s for their use as a biological…
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This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Program. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Stud…
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