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Aquatic invasive species have you like 😡 Spiny Water Flea have you like 🤬⁉️ Follow for Tiny bits on Spiny Water Flea @BassBen11 @WiscLimnology

 Madison, WI
Joined April 2019
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Robin Rohwer@RobinRohwer30 Jan 2023
How did an invasive zooplankton increase lake anoxia? My latest, co-first authored with @hydrobert (spoilers in the thread!) @hildug @pchanson1 @JakeRWalsh @JakeDeLake @WiscLimnology @USLTER #phenology biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
The aftermath of a trophic cascade: Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake

The aftermath of a trophic cascade: Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake

Species invasions can disrupt aquatic ecosystems by re-wiring food webs. A trophic cascade triggered by the invasion of the predatory zooplankter spiny water flea (Bythotrephes cederströmii) resulted...

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Happy Holidays!
Tiny the Spiny (@TinyTheSpiny) profile pictureTiny the Spiny@TinyTheSpiny24 Dec 2019
On pulicaria! On mendotae! On retrocurva! (not to scale)
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TY to everyone who joined us for today's #CleanLakes101. We heard from Ben Martin (@TinyTheSpiny) of @WiscLimnology as he discussed L. Mendota’s large shifts in its food web, invasive species, and water quality. View: youtu.be/WvIahKNE0qE TY @MaxTsaparis, our emcee!
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Barry Adams@madnewsboy13 Apr 2022
Just a fantastic presentation by @TinyTheSpiny Ben Martin of @WiscLimnology this morning on the food web of Lake Mendota @cleanlakes event. Great turnout and terrific questions on the fish and the invasive spiny water flea. – at Wisconsin, USA
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40+ years of monitoring reveals veritable "lake opera" beneath the surface of Trout Lake. A drama of food webs & regime shifts told in 3 Acts. Study by @BassBen11 in @aslo_org @USLTER blog.limnology.wisc.edu/2022…

Beneath the Surface, Long-Term Lake Monitoring Reveals the Drama of a Food Web in Flux

Seen from shore, it doesn’t look like a lot is going on in Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin. Aside from windy days that shove waves against its mostly wooded shoreline, the lake presents, more often...

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The Spiny waterflea was introduced into Madison’s Lake Mendota and lurked undetected for years. Today, the Introduced podcast takes a new look at a well-studied lake to figure out how an introduced species can float below science’s radar for so long. 🤔🌊open.spotify.com/episode/3qz…
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#StopSpinyWaterFlea 🚫🛑🚫🛑
MAISRC (@AISresearchMN) profile pictureMAISRC@AISresearchMN10 May 2021
🎣🛑 The Minnesota fishing opener is this coming Saturday. If you are planning to fish on a spiny water flea infested lake, after you catch that lunker, be sure to wipe down fishing lines, reels, bait buckets, and livewells in addition to draining all water from your gear & boat!

MAISRC | Stop Spiny!

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#FLOW: Kassia Lesiewicz worked w @BassBen11 to paint the link between water clarity & the food chain surrounding Spiny Water Fleas! @WiscLimnology @TinyTheSpiny Through #FlowMicrogrant made possible by @UWHumanities’s HEX-U fellow @julbusk. See more: water.wisc.edu/spiny-water-f…

Spiny Water Flea by Kassia Lesiewicz

For this oil painting, Kassia Lesiewicz wanted to show the link between water clarity and the food chain surrounding Spiny Water Fleas, an invasive zooplankton that have entered many lakes in...

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WORT News@WORTnews5 Mar 2021
For years, an invasive species known as the spiny water flea went quietly undetected in Lake Mendota. Suddenly- BOOM. A huge population increase. Why? Our colleagues @wortscience get into it with @spearmike, former researcher @WiscLimnology. wortfm.org/the-sleeper-popul…

The Sleeper Population of Spiny Water Flea in Lake Mendota - WORT-FM 89.9

   WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Sleeper Population of Spiny Water Flea in Lake Mendota   A new report in the journal BioScience finds that it’s not uncommon for […]

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#UWxCalWater students present: “The Costly Impacts of Spiny Water Fleas”📍Lake Mendota is home to Daphnia, an herbivorous zooplankton that keeps the lake clear by filtering algae out of the water. The Spiny water flea is a voracious zooplankton predator that preys on Daphnia.
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Unique Christmas gift. @DynamicDiscs described this as "Drawn Monster". Maybe the only disc golf disc stamped with zooplankton?
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This Yellow Perch had no issue munching on spiny water flea 🍴🐟
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I painted some Daphnia for the cover of my friend's doctoral thesis!
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