New ichnological data are available at the prehistoric site of Melka Kunture, Upper Awash
Valley in Ethiopia. Excavation of new test pits enabled us to explore the volcanic and fluvio …

Sclerochronology provides an important and widely used tool to examine annual
environmental patterns in marine systems, but few similar tools have been developed to …

Although eutrophication of freshwaters is a natural process, the human impact often leads to
inland waters becoming overloaded with nutrients, impoverishing many valuable and …

Locomotion in benthic invertebrates can strongly affect habitat selection and ecosystem
nutrient cycling. In the case of freshwater mussels, the drivers of locomotion are largely …

Large freshwater mussels (Unionoida) are declining throughout the world. The European
bitterling Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782) female spawns its eggs inside the unionids' shells …

Freshwater bivalves can influence water quality by reducing phytoplankton levels through
filter-feeding and altering nutrient levels through excretion and biodeposition. In northeast …

Using time-lapse photography in a laboratory setting, we exposed Anodonta anatina and
Unio pictorum for 4 h to algal (Chlorella vulgaris) concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 20.0 mg …

This article reports a large‐scale die‐off of approximately one‐third of the unionid mussels
inhabiting a shallow, naturally eutrophic, floodplain lake (Zalew Pińczowski), which took …

© Bureau Waardenburg bv/Rijkswaterstaat Oost-Nederland/Provincie Gelderland Dit rapport
is vervaardigd op verzoek van opdrachtgever en is zijn eigendom. Niets uit dit rapport mag …

The life cycle of unionids is characterized by a obligatory period of larval parasitism on a fish
host, any disturbance of which might cause a large-scale decline in the mussel population …