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Cape Fear ShinerEducational resources on Cape Fear ShinerCape Fear Shiner or Notropis mekistocholas is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to B1+2cd. IUCN Profile of the Cape Fear Shiner Cape Fear Shiner THOMAS J. KWAK . Recent & Ongoing Research . Habitat Suitability of an Endangered Minnow . Cape Fear shiner, Notropis mekistocholas, photo by Richard G. Biggins, www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwak/shiner.html Title page for ETD etd-04152003-213732 The Cape Fear shiner Notropis mekistocholas is a recently described cyprinid fish endemic to the Cape Fear River Basin of North Carolina. Only five declining populations of www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04152003-213732 TAXONOMY ECONOMIC STATUSES: The Cape Fear shiner has no cultural or commercial significance. It, however, is a unique species restricted to a very limited range, and it has fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e254016.htm INFLUENCE OF WATER QUALITY AND ASSOCIATED CONTAMINANTS ON SURVIVAL AND ... However, the concentra-tionsmeasuredin Cape Fear shiner tissue are similar to tissue residues in experiments with rainbow trout that did not produce significant effects on growth or www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwak/Hewitt_et_al_2006.pdf Conservation genetics and demographic history of the The two Cape Fear shiner populations appear to have undergone significant effective-size reduction in the recent past (see below), and as pointed out by Hauser et al . wfsc.tamu.edu/people/publication/Gold-MolEcol16.pdf ABSTRACT ABSTRACT HOWARD, AMANDA KELLY. Influence of instream physical habitat and water quality on the survival and occurrence of the endangered Cape Fear shiner. www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04152003-213732/unrestricted/etd.pdf T.J. Kwak Selected Publications Population density and instream habitat suitability of the endangered Cape Fear shiner. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 138: 1439-1457. www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwak/pubs.html Electrofishing Effects We quantified electrofishing injury and short-term mortality of the Cape Fear shiner, Notropis mekistocholas, a federally-listed endangered fish known from only five populations in www4.ncsu.edu/~tkwak/injury.html Conservation genetic studies of the endangered Cape Fear Shiner ... Conservation Genetics 4: 219-225,2003. ©2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 219 Conservation genetic studies of the endangered Cape Fear Shiner, wfsc.tamu.edu/people/publication/Gold-ConGen10.pdf NCSU Digital Repository Influence of water quality and associated contaminants on survival and growth of the endangered Cape Fear shiner (Notropis mekistocholas) Date: www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.2/484
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