Context-dependent effects of freshwater mussels on stream benthic communities
By D. Spooner, C. Vaughn. 2006
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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Direct and indirect effects of microplastics on bivalves, with a focus on edible species: A mini-review (2019, background): “In addition, nutrient excretion by bivalves enhances benthic primary production by supporting the higher in-stream secondary production of aquatic organisms and other primary consumers (Atkinson, Vaughn, Forshay, & Cooper, 2013; Spooner & Vaughn, 2006).”
- Biodiversity Losses and Ecosystem Function in Freshwaters: Emerging Conclusions and Research Directions (2010, background): “Both comparative field studies (Vaughn and Spooner 2006) and field experiments (Howard and Cuffey 2006, Spooner and Vaughn 2006) have shown that benthic invertebrates aggregate in the sediments surrounding mussels or on mussel shells.”
- Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels (2008, methodology): “These large, long-lived invertebrates can be considered ecosystem engineers because they modify habitat, making it more suitable for conspecifics and other organisms (Gutierrez et al. 2003, Spooner and Vaughn 2006).”
- Ecosystem engineering by mussels supports biodiversity and water clarity in a heavily polluted lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2016, background): “Mussels are attracting increased interest as a tool for habitat restoration, bioremediation, and biomonitoring because of their ability to alter structure and biodiversity of aquatic environments (Gutiérrez et al. 2003, Spooner and Vaughn 2006, Aldridge et al. 2007).”
- Biogeochemical hotspots: temporal and spatial scaling of the impact of freshwater mussels on ecosystem function (2015, unknown): “While in some cases these effects may be partially due to biogenic habitat provided by the mussels and their spent 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…”