A practical, step-by-step guide to rearing freshwater mussels, one of the most imperiled groups of animals in the world.

Freshwater mussels are declining rapidly worldwide. Propagation has the potential to restore numbers of these remarkable organisms, preventing extinction of rar

Synthesizes the ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history en

In the early nineteenth century, a naturalist named Rafinesque stood on the banks of the Ohio River and began to describe the freshwater mussels he found there.

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. A