| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Breaking water -- Rocks with guts -- The lure of mussels -- Search images -- Mussel memory -- Life at river bottom -- The dead river -- When to clam up -- Holding water -- Mussel resuscitation |
| Summary |
"Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. Accompanied often by her husband, a mussel scientist, and her young children, she learned to see mussels on the creekbed, to tell a spectaclecase from a pigtoe, and to worry what vanishing mussels--70 percent of North American species are imperiled--will mean for humans and wildlife alike. Landis shares this journey, traveling from perilous river surveys to dry streambeds and into laboratories where endangered mussels are raised one precious life at a time. Mussels have much to teach us about the health of our watersheds if we step into the creek and take a closer look at their lives. In the tradition of writers like Terry Tempest Williams and Sy Montgomery, Landis gracefully chronicles these untold stories with a veterinarian's careful eye and the curiosity of a naturalist."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Freshwater mussels -- Southern States
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Stream ecology -- Southern States
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Freshwater biodiversity conservation -- Southern States
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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Freshwater biodiversity conservation
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Freshwater mussels
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Stream ecology
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Southern States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781610918084 |
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1610918088 |
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