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- North American Freshwater Mussels
- North American Freshwater Mussels
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction to mussels and mussel ecology
- Chapter 2 Catching the mussel bug
- Chapter 3 Diversity and biogeography
- Chapter 4 Aquatic habitats and mussel assemblages
- Chapter 5 Host use and host infection strategies
- Chapter 6 These are very different animals
- Chapter 7 Mussel population biology
- Chapter 8 Putting it all together
- Chapter 9 Human exploitation of mussels
- Chapter 10 The decline of the North American mussel fauna
- Chapter 11 Mussel conservation
- Appendix A Values for life history traits of representative North American mussel species
- Appendix B Sources for mussel assemblage data
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - These are very different animals
Life history variation in mussels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2012
- North American Freshwater Mussels
- North American Freshwater Mussels
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction to mussels and mussel ecology
- Chapter 2 Catching the mussel bug
- Chapter 3 Diversity and biogeography
- Chapter 4 Aquatic habitats and mussel assemblages
- Chapter 5 Host use and host infection strategies
- Chapter 6 These are very different animals
- Chapter 7 Mussel population biology
- Chapter 8 Putting it all together
- Chapter 9 Human exploitation of mussels
- Chapter 10 The decline of the North American mussel fauna
- Chapter 11 Mussel conservation
- Appendix A Values for life history traits of representative North American mussel species
- Appendix B Sources for mussel assemblage data
- Bibliography
- Index
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- North American Freshwater MusselsNatural History, Ecology, and Conservation, pp. 180 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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