Tag: Lynette Williams Duman
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Day 3 – An Ode to Gulls
By Lynette Williams Duman . . . There is no better cure for the winter blues than looking at birds, and there is no better group of birds to look at in the winter than gulls. In California, winter is the time of massive gull flocks that will commute between landfills, beaches, rice fields, reservoirs,…
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Sacramento Perch: An Experiment in Unconventional Conservation?
By Lynette Williams Duman & Mason Rogers The forgotten panfish of the West Bluegill, redear sunfish, and largemouth bass: these species are familiar and, for many, elicit fond memories of fishing in warm waters on a hot summer’s day. It is for this reason, and others, that California has introduced these sportfishes, and a myriad…
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Systematic assessments of non-native fishes in the San Francisco Estuary
By Lynette Williams Duman, Elsie Platzer, and John Durand An invaded estuary There is widespread concern about the effect of introduced species on native species. The San Francisco Estuary (SFE) is a highly invaded system (Cohen and Carlton 1995), with a mix of native and introduced species that didn’t evolve together. Humans introduced non-native species in a…