Burrowing behavior of freshwater mussels in experimentally manipulated communities

By Daniel Allen, C. Vaughn. Journal of The North American Benthological Society, 2009

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Biogeochemical hotspots: temporal and spatial scaling of the impact of freshwater mussels on ecosystem function (2015, unknown): “Adult mussels are highly sedentary; they rarely move further than a few metres laterally per year (Kappes & Haase, 2012) and less than a half metre in a week (Allen & Vaughn, 2009), so these aggregations are usually stable at the ecological time scale of stream food webs and ecosystem function.”
Slow, but steady: dispersal of freshwater molluscs (2011, background): “Allen and Vaughn (2009) found that the average movements of the North American species Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck), Amblema plicata (Say), Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque) and Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque were in the range of 10 to 30 cm during the 11 days of an experiment, thus moving ca. 3 cm ”
Biodiversity Losses and Ecosystem Function in Freshwaters: Emerging Conclusions and Research Directions (2010, background): “Movement of adult mussels is seasonal and varies from less than a meter to an estimated annual maximum of 100 meters (Waller et al. 1999, Allen and Vaughn 2009).”
Negative effects of Corbicula fluminea over native freshwater mussels (2018, background): “Until now, many locomotor activities were previously described in freshwater mussels in association with mussel community structure (Allen & Vaughn, 2009), seasonal changes in abiotic factors (Amyot & Downing, 1997), reproduction (Amyot & Downing, 1998), or predation (Jokela & Mutikainen, 1995),…”