Native vs. Invasive community interactions: Snail herbivory in Louisiana and Mato Grosso (Brazil) wetlands

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dc.contributor.authorStratford, Juliana
dc.contributor.authorBattaglia, Loretta
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-08T17:13:19Z
dc.date.available2022-07-08T17:13:19Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.description.abstractPomacea maculata is the largest freshwater snail in the world. This native of Brazil was introduced to the southeastern United States in 1989. A documented voracious consumer, it continues to spread and threaten wetlands in this region, where it happens to overlap with two highly invasive aquatic macrophytes that also hail from Brazil: Salvinia minima and Eichhornia crassipes. This invasive community poses a great threat to native wetland ecosystem structure and function, but also presents a unique opportunity to examine multi- species interactions with shared evolutionary histories. The primary objectives of this study are threefold:1) to determine whether P. maculata diet reflects a preference for native Louisiana macrophytes over the co-evolved invasive plants; 2) to determine whether P. maculata can be a viable biocontrol agent for S. minima and E. crassipes in their invaded range; and 3) to compare P. maculata herbivory in its invaded and native range. Project objectives will be addressed through a series of controlled feeding trials using snails and plants from local populations in Louisiana and Mato Grosso (Brazil).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/92765
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectaquaticen_US
dc.subjectexoticsen_US
dc.subjectgastropoden_US
dc.subjectnonindigenousen_US
dc.subjectpantanalen_US
dc.subjectswampen_US
dc.titleNative vs. Invasive community interactions: Snail herbivory in Louisiana and Mato Grosso (Brazil) wetlandsen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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