Aquatic Underdogs: How Freshwater Mussels Can Help Save our Great Waters
Wagner Free Institute of Science 1700 W. Montgomery Ave, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesFreshwater mussels are the "underdogs" of aquatic ecology: few people know that they exist and even fewer know that they are the most imperiled of all organisms in North America. Due to over-farming and their complicated lifecycle, once-plentiful freshwater mussel...