Mobile Basin Mollusks: Ecology and Conservation

Session 6 (Special)
Wednesday, May 28, 3:15 PM-5:00 PM, Athena E
Moderator: Gangloff

3:15 (35) The role of systematics in conserving Mobile Basin mollusks.
C. Lydeard. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

3:30 (36) Hydraulic ecology and management implications for freshwater mussels in the Upper Alabama River drainage.
M.M. Gangloff and J.W. Feminella. Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL USA 36849

3:45 (37) Freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) and habitat conditions in the upper Tombigbee River system, Alabama and Mississippi, 1993-2001.
S.W. McGregor¹ and W.R. Haag². ¹Geological Survey of Alabama, P. O. Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35486 USA, ²U.S.D.A. Forest Service Forest Hydrology Lab, P.O. Box 947, Oxford, Mississippi, 38665 USA

4:00 (38) Patterns of life history diversity in freshwater mussels.
W.R. Haag. Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, USDA Forest Service, 1000 Front Street, Oxford, Mississippi, USA 38655.

4:15 (39) A review of the conservation status and recovery efforts for Mobile River basin freshwater gastropods.
P.D. Johnson and S.N. Novak. Tennssee Aquatic Research Institute, 5385 Red Clay Road, Cohutta, GA 30710.

4:30 (40) Environmental factors influencing abundance of pleurocerid snails in the genus Elimia and their trematode parasites in southeastern streams .
A.M Tomba and J.W. Feminella. Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, AL 36849-5407

4:45 (41) Conservation status and recovery of freshwater mussels in the Mobile River Basin.
J.T. Garner¹, P.D. Johnson², and S.W. McGregor³. ¹Alabama Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, Florence, AL, USA, ²Tennessee Aquarium Research Institute, Cohutta, GA, USA, ³Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA