Ecosystem Processes Performed by Unionid Mussels in Stream Mesocosms: Species Roles and Effects of Abundance

By C. Vaughn, K. Gido, D. Spooner. Hydrobiologia, 2004

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Biomanipulation as a restoration tool to combat eutrophication : recent advances and future challenges (2012, background): “…an important impact on shallow lake ecosystems via several mechanisms, including suspension feeding (e.g. Strayer et al., 1999), deposit feeding (Vaughn et al., 2004), grazing (Hill et al., 1992; Karatayev et al., 2009a,b), predation (e.g. Howells et al., 2006), biodeposition (Stewart et al.,…”
The functional role of native freshwater mussels in the fluvial benthic environment (2006, methodology): “Freshwater mussels have rapidly declined throughout North America and continue to do so (Williams et al., 1992; Vaughn et al., 2004).”
Effects of substrate and hydrodynamic conditions on the formation of mussel beds in a large river (2006, background): “Unionids probably provide critical ecosystem functions such as particle processing, nutrient release, and sediment mixing, but these functions have not been thoroughly addressed (Strayer et al. 2004, Vaughn et al. 2004).”
Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels (2008, methodology): “Rates of ecological processes done by mussels often scale linearly with biomass (Strayer et al. 1999, Vaughn et al. 2004).”
Biogeochemical hotspots: temporal and spatial scaling of the impact of freshwater mussels on ecosystem function (2015, unknown): “…shells (Vaughn & Hakenkamp, 2001; Spooner & Vaughn, 2006), a field experiment in an adjacent river and mesocosm experiments show that mussel-regenerated N is assimilated into the food web and has a bottom-up effect on productivity (Vaughn et al., 2004; Allen et al., 2012; Atkinson et al., 2014c).”
Context-dependent effects of freshwater mussels on stream benthic communities (2006, background): “Based on our results and other recent studies (Vaughn et al., 2004) we think that unionid mussels potentially act as ‘ecosystem engineers’ in rivers where they are abundant because they both modify the habitat and control availability of resources to other organisms.”
Historical Impacts on River Fauna, Shifting Baselines, and Challenges for Restoration (2009, background): “In addition to filtration, mussels affect ecosystems through excretion, bioturbation, and creation of hard substrates that can be colonized by other organisms (Vaughn et al. 2004).”
Stable isotopic signatures, tissue stoichiometry, and nutrient cycling (C and N) of native and invasive freshwater bivalves (2010, background): “However, the rates of ecological processes performed by mussels often scale linearly with biomass (Vaughn et al. 2004), and C. fluminea is typically smaller than native unionids.”
Patterns of Freshwater Bivalve Global Diversity and the State of Phylogenetic Studies on the Unionoida, Sphaeriidae, and Cyrenidae * (2013, background): “(Strayer et al. 1999, Vaughn and Hakenkamp 2001, Vaughn et al. 2004) What is the nature and extent of life history variation among freshwater bivalves?”
Lake restoration studies: failures, bottlenecks and prospects of new ecotechnological measures (2008, background): “, 2004; Welker and Walz, 1998) have shown that unionid mussels can filter large amounts of the water column, as long as their biomass is high (Vaughn et al., 2004).”
Using landscape ecology to understand and manage freshwater mussel populations (2008, background): “For example, dense populations of mussels might alter habitat quality by feeding and respiring (Vaughn et al. 2004), and their presence might stabilize substrates (Johnson and Brown 2000).”
Unionid mussels influence macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in streams (2006, background): “Unionids can have strong effects in ecosystems in which they are abundant (Vaughn and Hakenkamp 2001, Spooner 2002, Vaughn et al. 2004).”
Ecosystem engineering by mussels supports biodiversity and water clarity in a heavily polluted lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2016, background): “…comparatively high mussel population densities are achieved in a polluted, urban freshwater habitat, such as Dhanmondi Lake, is of particular significance when considering that the ecological processes performed by mussels are linearly related to biomass (Strayer et al. 1999, Vaughn et al. 2004).”
Biodiversity Losses and Ecosystem Function in Freshwaters: Emerging Conclusions and Research Directions (2010, background): “…filtering suspended matter, mussels link benthic and pelagic compartments by transferring energy and nutrients from the water column to the sediment, biodepositing organic matter and excreting nutrients (Vaughn and Hakenkamp 2001, Vaughn et al. 2004, Howard and Cuffey 2006, Christian et al. 2008).”