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Swimming Upstream Without a Ladder: Dams and Pipes and River Shrimp Movements (Spanish)

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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.

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  • alga

    (al gǝ): Plural form: algae (al jē); Any plant or plantlike organism (like a seaweed) that includes forms mostly growing in water, lacking a system of vessels for carrying fluids, and often having chlorophyll masked by brown or red coloring matter.

  • conserve

    (kǝn sǝrv): To avoid wasteful or destructive use of something.

  • ecosystem

    (ē kō sis tǝm): A system made up of an ecological community of living things interacting with their environment especially under natural conditions.

  • fish ladder

    (fish la dǝr): A series of pools arranged like steps by which fish can pass over a dam in going upstream.

  • larval

    (lär vǝl): Characteristic of or relating to the early form of an animal or insect that at birth or hatching is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose before growing into the adult form.

  • life cycle

    (līf sī kәl): A series of stages through which something (such as a plant or animal) passes during its lifetime.

  • migrate

    (mī grāt): To pass, usually periodically, from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding.

  • population

    (pä pyǝ lā shǝn): The total of individuals occupying an area.

  • species

    (spē sēz or spē shēz): A category of living things that ranks below a genus, is made up of related individuals able to produce fertile offspring, and is identified by a two-part scientific name.

  • tropical

    (trä pi kǝl): Of, relating to, occurring in, or used in the tropics, which is the area between two parallels of the earth’s latitude that are approximately 23½ degrees north of the equator and approximately 23½ degrees south of the equator.

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    I like being a scientist because I like working outside, in the stream, getting my feet wet. I also like doing research that will help conserve the environment.
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    Aquatic Ecologist | Ecology

    I like being a scientist because I enjoy learning how natural systems work. Also, for part of the year my office is a beautiful stream!
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  • 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...

    Swimming Upstream Without a Ladder: Dams and Pipes and River Shrimp Movements

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    • Ecosystem
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    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...
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