Chapter 4 Habitats
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats
• Fish – monitor priority and state-listed species on a routine basis. Blackbanded Sunfish Brook Trout Carolina Darter Carolina Redhorse Ironcolor Shiner Pinewoods Darter
Robust Redhorse Sandhills Chub Thicklip Chub
• Mussels – monitor priority species in priority areas (Roaring and Mitchell rivers, the Yadkin River upstream of Winston Salem, Dutchman’s Creek, Goose, Duck and Crooked creeks, the Uwharrie and Little rivers, and the Pee Dee River tailraces and mainstem upstream of the South Carolina state line).
Atlantic Pigtoe Brook Floater Carolina Creekshell Creeper
Eastern Lampmussel Green Floater Notched Rainbow Roanoke Slabshell
Triangle Floater Uwharrie Elktoe Yellow Lampmussel
4.5.20.5.3 Research Research topics that facilitate appropriate conservation actions include habitat use and preferences, reproductive behavior, fecundity, population dynamics and genetics, feeding, competition, impacts of climate change and invasive species, and food web dynamics. Increased understanding of life histories and status helps determine the vulnerability of priority species to further imperilment, in addition to identifying possibilities for improved management and conservation. All studies should provide recommendations for mitigation and restoration. Formal descriptions for known or putative undescribed species and investigations aimed at resolving taxonomic status are needed.
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats
• Support species descriptions for undescribed taxa. Carolina Redhorse Moravian Crayfish Roaring River Crayfish
Sagittunio spp.mussels
• Determine vulnerability of species across all taxa groups to contaminants such as endocrine- disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and other compounds present in many of the waterways of the Yadkin-Pee Dee Basin.
• Identify limiting factors of declining species.
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