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                                            **Budget**                         

  **SSP Project Title**                     **FY08**     **FY09**   **FY10**   **FY11**

  Conservation Planning in the Active       56,532       58,229     59,976     
  Floodplain of the **Lower Mississippi**                                      
  River                                                                        

  The Dynamics of Woody Debris on the       24,400       24,400     23,200     22,000
  Coastal Plain Reach of the **Roanoke                                         
  River**, North Carolina and its                                              
  implications for Aquatic Resources                                           

  **King Rail** Habitat Relationships in    25,000       26,500     26,500     9,500
  Freshwater Marshes of Southwestern                                           
  Louisiana and Southeastern Texas                                             

  **Dissolved Oxygen** Requirements for FW  24,889       36,062                
  Mussels Phase 1: Development of Test                                         
  Systems and Experimental Protocols                                           
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  **Quick Response Project Title**                               **Budget
                                                                 FY08**

  Range-wide surveys of eastern painted bunting (*Passerina      16,654
  ciris*): Assessment of first-year results and evaluation of    
  survey design efficacy                                         

  Detection probability and population status of the Conasauga   15,704
  logperch (*Percina jenkinsi*) in the Conasauga River           

  Population growth rate estimation of endangered freshwater     16,598
  mussel species in the Clinch and Powel Rivers based on         
  Bayesian model averaging approach                              

  Differentiation of pallid (*Scaphirhynchus albus*) from        17,184
  shovelnose sturgeon (*S. platorynchus*): evaluation of a flow  
  cytometric method based on DNA content difference              
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\[Note: the sturgeon project was partially funded, with most of the
funding coming from the SSP program.\]

Brief abstracts of the proposals follow.

1\. Successful SSP proposal descriptions:

1\) The **lower Mississippi** project will provide the Lower Mississippi
River Conservation Committee with access to conservation planning
products, such as habitat restoration site identification and
assessment; fisheries management and hydrological design modeling; and
post-habitat restoration biological and hydrological monitoring in the
LMR active floodplain, from a specifically dedicated ArcGIS geodatabase.

2\) The **Roanoke River** study will determine characteristics of large
woody debris (LWD) relative to regulated flows. Specifically, the
project will document the spatial distribution of forms and volumes of
LWD accumulation, the characteristics of LWD in transit and its temporal
and geographical origin, the residence time of LWD in the Roanoke River,
the main transport mechanisms of LWD (e.g., hydropower peaking or flood
control operations) and the development of a LWD budget and predicted
future LWD budgets, based on modelled management scenarios.

3\) The **king rail** proposal is multi-regional; we are splitting the
costs and benefits with Region 2. The project will: determine the
distribution of king rails in selected marsh habitats of southwestern
Louisiana and southeastern Texas, including freshwater and brackish
marshes, in both managed and unmanaged sites; determine local- and
landscape-scale habitat characteristics that affect king rail
distribution in coastal marshes; and develop GIS-based habitat models to
predict king rail distribution and abundance.

4\) The **dissolved oxygen** (DO) investigation will develop test
guidelines for determining oxygen consumption rates and subsequently DO
requirements in several species of mussels, and identify the
biomarker(s) of stress that can be used to assign impairment to
physiological health at threshold levels.

2\. Successful QR proposal descriptions:

[Range-wide surveys of eastern painted bunting]{.underline} (*Passerina
ciris*). This study will provide estimates of occurrence and abundance
from the first year of the Eastern Painted Bunting survey; develop
predictive models of occurrence and abundance based on habitat; evaluate
the survey; develop software and guidance for the analysis of future
surveys.

[Detection probability and population status of the Conasauga
logperch]{.underline} (*Percina jenkinsi*) [in the Conasauga
River]{.underline}. Our objective is to estimate the current population
status, expressed as probability of occurrence in suitable habitat, of
the Conasauga logperch by conducting snorkel surveys in the Conasauga
River.

[Population growth rate estimation of endangered freshwater mussel
species in the Clinch and Powel Rivers]{.underline}. Our objectives are
to: develop models for population dynamics based on the data structure;
develop a Bayesian model averaging framework that will incorporate model
selection uncertainty; apply the Bayesian model approach and evaluate
population status of endangered mussels in the Clinch and Powell rivers.

[Differentiation of pallid]{.underline} (*Scaphirhynchus albus*) [from
shovelnose sturgeon]{.underline} (*S. platorynchus*). We will test the
capability of high resolution DNA analysis by flow cytometry to
discriminate pallid sturgeon from shovelnose sturgeon, by analyzing
blood samples from pallid, hybrid, and shovelnose sturgeon in the
Atchafalaya, Lower Mississippi, Lower Missouri, Middle Mississippi and
the Upper Missouri Rivers.