Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges

Lopes‐Lima, Manuel; Sousa, Ronaldo; Geist, Juergen; C. Aldridge, David; Araújo, Rafael; Bergengren, Jakob; V. Bespalaya, Yulia; Bódis, Erika; E. Burlakova, Lyubov; Van Damme, Dirk; Douda, Karel; Froufe, Elsa; Georgiev, Dilian; Gumpinger, Clemens; Y. Karatayev, Alexander; Kebapçı, Ümit; J. Killeen, Ian; Lajtner, Jasna; Mejdell Larsen, Bjørn; Lauceri, Rosaria; Legakis, Anastasios; Lois, Sabela; Lundberg, Stefan; Moorkens, Evelyn; Motte, Grégory; Nagel, Karl‐Otto; Ondina, Paz; Outeiro, Adolfo; Paunović, Momír; Prié, Vincent; von Proschwitz, Ted; Riccardi, Nicoletta; Rudzıte, Mudıte; Rudzītis, Māris; Scheder, Christian; B Seddon, Mary; Şereflişan, Hülya; Simić, Vladica; E. Sokolova, Svetlana; Stoeckl, Katharina; Taskinen, Jouni; Teixeira, Amílcar; Thielen, Frankie; Trichkova, Teodora; Varandas, Simone; Vicentini, Heinrich; Zając, Katarzyna; Zając, Tadeusz; Zogaris, Stamatis

doi:10.1111/brv.12244

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Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges

Published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society • Jan 4, 2016

Authors:

Manuel Lopes‐Lima

Ronaldo Sousa

Juergen Geist

Abstract

Freshwater 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, cons...

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Fishery

Geography

Environmental science

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