Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems. Freshwater
mussels perform many important functions in aquatic ecosystems, which can in turn be …

Six conclusions have emerged from recent research that complicate the ability to predict
how biodiversity losses may affect ecosystem function:(1) species traits determine …

Abstract Freshwater mussel (Superfamily Unionoidea) communities are important
components of food webs, and they link and influence multiple trophic levels. Mussels filter …

Pearly mussels (Unionoidea) live in lakes, rivers, and streams around the world. These
bivalves play important roles in freshwater ecosystems and were once both culturally and …

We identified 14 emerging and poorly understood threats and opportunities for addressing
the global conservation of freshwater mussels over the next decade. A panel of 17 …

Freshwater bivalves have been highly threatened by human activities, and recently their
global decline has been causing conservational and social concern. In this paper, we review …

Nutrient cycling is a key process linking organisms in ecosystems. This is especially
apparent in stream environments in which nutrients are taken up readily and cycled through …

In streams, the creation of nutrient‐transformation hotspots by aggregated organisms may
have heterogeneous and strong cumulative influences on stream nutrient dynamics. Here …

The sustained decline in habitat quality and community integrity highlights the importance of
understanding how communities and environmental variation interactively contribute to …

We examined how substrate and complex hydraulic variables limit the distribution of
freshwater mussels. We sampled mussels and measured substrate and hydraulic variables …