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Study: Stories of Invasive Species Often Begin with Undetected “Sleeper Populations”

Posted on February 17, 2021

When an invasive species overruns an ecosystem, it is often assumed that the organism recently arrived at its new home and rapidly took over. But a report published in the journal, BioScience, says that many …

Posted in Invasive Species, Learn Your LakesTagged BioScience, invasive species, Jake Vander Zanden, Lake Mendota, Mike Spear, spiny water flea, Zebra mussel

Zebra Mussel Invasion in Full Swing in Lake Mendota

Posted on June 7, 2017

Somewhere along the way, someone lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Maybe they were blown off on a full-throttle boat ride. Or slipped from a shirt pocket while wrestling a fish on board. Whatever the …

Posted in Graduate Student Research, Hasler Lab, Invasive SpeciesTagged invasive species, Jake Vander Zanden, Lake Mendota, Mike Spear, Zebra mussel

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