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A roadmap for the conservation of freshwater mussels in Europe
Sousa, Ronaldo; Zając, Tadeusz; Halabowski, Dariusz; Aksenova, Olga V.; Bespalaya, Yulia V.; Carvalho, Francisco; Castro, Paulo S.; Douda, KarelEurope has a long history of human pressure on freshwater ecosystems. As pressure continues to grow and new threats emerge, there is an urgent need for conservation of freshwater biodiversity and its ecosystem services. However, whilst some taxonomic groups, mainly vertebrates, have received a disproportionate amount of attention and funds, other groups remain largely off the public and scientific radar. Freshw...
Fishing for hosts: larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel...
Aldridge, David C.; Brian, Joshua I.; Cmiel, Adam; Lipinska, Anna; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo; Teixeira, Amílcar; Zajac, KatarzynaUnderstanding the life-history characteristics of endangered species is crucial to their conservation, management, and predicting their responses to environmental change (Stark et al., 2004). Host specificity is central to the evolutionary diversification and conservation of the Unionida (Barnhart et al., 2008; Modesto et al., 2018). In the North American mussels of the Ambleminae subfamily, specificity toward ...
Fishing for hosts: Larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel...
Aldridge, David C.; Brian, Joshua I.; Cmiel, Adam; Lipinska, Anna; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Teixeira, Amilcar; Zajac, Katarzyna[Excerpt] Understanding the life-history characteristics of endangered species is crucial to their conservation, management, and predicting their responses to environmental change (Stark et al., 2004). Host specificity is central to the evolutionary diversification and conservation of the Unionida (Barnhart et al., 2008; Modesto et al., 2018). In the North American mussels of the Ambleminae subfamily, specifici...
Remarkable reprodutive spurting behaviour of endangered thick shelled river mus...
Aldridge, David C.; Cmiel, Adam; Lipinska, Anna; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo; Teixeira, Amílcar; Zajac, Katarzyna; Zając, TadeuszFreshwater mussels (Unionida) dominate the biomass and are important keystone organisms in many rivers, yet they are declining precipitously worldwide. Their dispersal is facilitated by possession of parasitic larvae (glochidia) which typically encyst and metamorphose on the gills and fins of host fishes. Long eo-evolutionary histories in some North American mussels has resulted in specificity towards single ho...
Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and futur...
Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo; Geist, Juergen; Aldridge, David C.; Araujo, Rafael; Bergengren, Jakob; Bespalaya, Yulia V.; Bódis, ErikaFreshwater mussels of the Order Unionida provide important ecosystem functions and services, yet many of their populations are in decline. We comprehensively review the status of the 16 currently recognized species in Europe, collating for the first time their life-history traits, distribution, conservation status, habitat preferences, and main threats in order to suggest future management actions. In northern,...