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North American freshwater mussels : natural history, ecology, and conservation /
"Synthesizes ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history enthusiasts"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction to mussels and mussel ecology
- 2. Catching the mussel bug : a history of the study of mussel ecology in North America
- 3. Diversity and biogeography
- 4. Aquatic habitats and mussel assemblages
- 5. Host use and host infection strategies
- 6. These are very different animals : life history variation in mussels
- 7. Mussel population biology
- 8. Putting it all together : explaining patterns of mussel assemblage structure
- 9. Human exploitation of mussels
- 10. The decline of the North American mussel fauna : chronology and causes
- 11. Mussel conservation : the challenge of protecting a fragmented resource
- Appendix A. Values for life history traits of representative North American mussel species
- Appendix B. Sources for mussel assemblage data.