Weeki Wachee River System Recommended Minimum Flows and ...
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The most common molluscs present are included in Table 5-12 <strong>and</strong> compared to the<br />
community observed in the <strong>Weeki</strong> <strong>Wachee</strong>/Mud <strong>River</strong> complex. Montagna found a<br />
number of significant relationships between abundance <strong>and</strong> salinity which can be<br />
expressed as :<br />
y = а * exp(-0.5*(ln(s/c)/b) 2 )<br />
Where y = Number of organisms / m 2<br />
a = maximum abundance<br />
s = salinity (ppt)<br />
c = maximum salinity value<br />
b = rate of response change<br />
The model assumes that there is an optimal range for salinity <strong>and</strong> that values will<br />
decline in a non-linear fashion for salinities on either side of optimal (Montagna et al.<br />
2002). An example response is provided in Figure 5-5 for Polymesoda caroliniana.<br />
Table 5-13 provides the coefficients for significant (r 2 > 0.3) response of dominant native<br />
taxa in the <strong>Weeki</strong> <strong>Wachee</strong> <strong>and</strong> Mud <strong>River</strong>s.<br />
Table 5-12<br />
Rank Mollusc Abundance – Florida West Coast Tidal <strong>River</strong>s (Montagna 2006)<br />
Percent Composition of Community Abundance<br />
<strong>Weeki</strong> &<br />
Taxa<br />
All <strong>River</strong>s Mud<br />
Corbicula fluminea 40.4 1.25<br />
Polymesoda caroliniana 11.1 21.2<br />
Rangia cuneata 8.0 0<br />
Tagelus plebeius 5.6 23.8<br />
Amygdalum papyrium 5.2 0<br />
Neritina usnea 3.7 0<br />
Geukensia granosissima 3.4 0<br />
Tellina versicolor 3.3 0<br />
Crassostrea virginica 3.2 25.0<br />
Macoma constricta 3.2 0<br />
Ischadium recurvum 2.2 15.0<br />
Littoraria irrorata 2.2 8.8<br />
Mulinia lateralis 2.1 0<br />
Nassarius vibex 1.7 0<br />
Mollusc_Raw_Dat.xls<br />
Cumulative 95 95<br />
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Biological Characteristics