Ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels

Vaughn, Caryn C.

doi:10.1007/s10750-017-3139-x

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“…The present special issue in Hydrobiologia comprises a total of 34 papers (including this introductory note) summarising some of the information presented in this meeting. These papers cover a wide variety of topics, from a review of ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels (Vaughn, 2017) to papers describing the diversity patterns and conservation of Unionida in East and Southeast Asia (Zieritz et al, 2017) as a result of international collaboration. Seven papers focus on different biological aspects of invasive bivalve species, including diversity changes by species substitution , physiological aspects (Labecka & Domagala, 2016), dispersion (Collas et al, 2016), ecological effects on native bivalve species (Ferreira-Rodríguez et al, 2016), low palatability to distinct predators (Castro et al, 2017), metabolite emission suppression in zebra mussels exposed to predation stress (Antoł et al, 2017) and the use of a new sonar technology and underwater imagery analysis for the survey of FB in rivers (Mehler et al, 2016).…”

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“…Biodiversity crisis is one of the major consequences of steeply rising human demands, and among the animals with high extinction rates are freshwater bivalves (FB) (Strayer et al, 2004;Lydeard et al, 2004;Régnier et al, 2009;Lopes-Lima et al, 2014, 2017a. The future survival of FB is highly impaired and considering the large suite of ecosystem services they provide (Vaughn, 2017) scientists, managers, politicians and the general public need to strengthen their cooperation in order to conserve these species.…”

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Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and research needs

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Bivalves are ubiquitous members of freshwater ecosystems and responsible for important functions and services. The present paper revises freshwater bivalve diversity, conservation status and threats at the global scale and discusses future research needs and management actions. The diversity patterns are uneven across the globe with hotspots in the interior basin in the United States of America (USA), Central America, Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Freshwater bivalves are affected by multiple threats that vary across the globe; however, pollution and natural system (habitat) modifications being consistently found as the most impacting. Freshwater bivalves are among the most threatened groups in the world with 40% of the species being near threatened, threatened or extinct, and among them the order Unionida is the most endangered. We suggest that global cooperation between scientists, managers, politicians and general public, and application of new technologies (new generation sequencing and remote sensing, among others) will strengthen the quality of studies on the natural history and conservation of freshwater bivalves. Finally, we introduce

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Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and research needs

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“…Table 3 indicates the WaterSES sites where water supply is not meeting demand, causing economic hardships, degraded ecosystem health, and/or environmental injustices. For instance, the Kiamichi River in Oklahoma used long term data on river flow, water quality, and land use to assess water needs to maintain ecosystem health [36], followed by survey-based quantification of social perceptions and willingness to pay for preserving water-related ecosystem services among stakeholder groups [37]. The latter identified some of the roots behind conflicts among stakeholders (e.g., urban vs. rural, Tribal vs. non-native) as well as issues of environmental justice [38,39].…”

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Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

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Globally, environmental and social change in water-scarce regions challenge the sustainability of social-ecological systems. WaterSES, a sponsored working group within the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society, explores and compares the social-ecological dynamics related to water scarcity across placed-based international research sites with contrasting local and regional water needs and governance, including research sites in Spain and Sweden in Europe, South Africa, China, and Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas in the USA. This paper aims to provide a commentary on insights into conducting future solutions-oriented research on water scarcity based on the understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of water scarce regions.

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“…Many times the distribution of freshwater mussels is assigned to a hydrographic basin as a whole (e.g., Simone 2006; however, the situation in the "real world" is quite different, as the distribution of the species is not homogeneous and depends on several environmental factors (Haag 2012). The mussels assemblages are patchily distributed and the movements in adult mussels are restricted (Pereira et al 2011, Haag 2012, Vaughn 2017, Miyahira et al 2017. Thus, the distribution of a mussel can never consider the basin as the whole for evaluation of extinction risks.…”

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“…Bivalves inhabit the bottom substrate, and are important members of freshwater communities performing important ecosystem services (Vaughn 2017). Except for the environmental differences between marine…”

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Freshwater mussels from South America: state of the art of Unionida, specially Rhipidodontini

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Miyahira, I. C.; Santos, S. B.; Mansur, M. C. D. Freshwater mussels from South America: state of the art of Unionida, specially Rhipidodontini. Biota Neotropica. 17(4): e20170341. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2017-0341Abstract: Unionida is the most diverse clade of freshwater bivalves. Among the groups occurring in South America, one with the highest number of species is Rhipidodontini (Hyriidae, Unionida, Paleoheterodonta, Bivalvia). However several issues remains on taxonomy and systematic of this group, leading to problems on species identification, description, as also as a limiting factor to other type of studies (e.g., ecology, conservation,…). In this paper is presented a synthesis of available knowledge about Diplodon Spix in Wagner, 1827 and Rhipidodonta Mörch, 1853 in South America, as a first step in order to a better understating of Rhipidodontini. The evaluation of different authors exposes the little agreement between them that resulted in a sort of divergent taxonomical opinions. Some comments on ecology, conservation and habitat preferences were made. This work can also encourage future research on taxonomy, systematic, ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels in South America.

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Ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels

Cited by 379 publications

References 107 publications

Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and research needs

Conservation of freshwater bivalves at the global scale: diversity, threats and research needs

Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

Freshwater mussels from South America: state of the art of Unionida, specially Rhipidodontini

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