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Swimming Upstream Without a Ladder: Dams and Pipes and River Shrimp MovementsThis article is from Issue Tropical - Vol. 3 No. 1.
* Note: All editions of the Natural Inquirer starting with Volume 5 and including future editions require the newest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 in order to be downloaded. We have upgraded in order to ensure greater accessibility to PDF files. Please click on the following link if you need to upgrade your Adobe Acrobat reader: Upgrade now to Adobe Reader 6.0. It is a free upgrade. Tropical streams provide many benefits to people and animals. For river shrimp that spend part of their life in the mountain streams, the streams provide a place to reproduce and develop. River shrimp are important to the streams as well. Tropical streams also provide people with the fresh
water they need for drinking, cooking, and washing. To provide water for people, small dams are often built in tropical streams. The scientists in this study want to know how to protect shrimp in areas where people take water from streams.
Welcome to the Tropical editionNote to EducatorsEducation Standards CorrelationsMeet the scientists that contributed to this article: "Science Topics" covered in this article:
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"Thinking About Science Themes" covered in this article: Although scientists sometimes work alone, they usually do their research with other scientists. Even if they live in different areas of the Nation or the world, they find ways to work together. In this study, scientists from the University of Georgia worked together with a Forest Service scientist in Puerto Rico to study a special kind of shrimp. In your classroom, you sometimes work with other students. When you do this, you are like a scientist who works with other scientists. Can you name two reasons why it is a good idea to work with others when you are learning something new? Specific "Thinking About Science" Themes:"Thinking About Environmental Themes" covered in this article: Many animal species spend part of their life in one location and part of it in another place. When that happens, the animal is said to be migratory. Animals usually migrate to a place more favorable for reproduction. People often think of birds when they think of migratory animals. In this study, the migratory animal is a river shrimp. When it is in its larval stage, the shrimp larvae drift from streams in high tropical mountains to areas near the coast. There they grow beyond the larval stage. When they are ready to become adults and reproduce, the juvenile shrimp swim back upstream to where they were born. When the juveniles encounter barriers such as waterfalls, they crawl over them to continue their upstream journey. When they get upstream, they grow into adult shrimp and reproduce. Their offspring drift back downstream with the current, and the cycle begins again. Specific "Thinking About the Environment" Themes:NSE Standards covered in this article:
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