02924nam 2200541 450 991016489540332120230809222731.01-61091-808-8(CKB)3710000001064601(MiAaPQ)EBC4803113(EXLCZ)99371000000106460120180808d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImmersion the science and mystery of freshwater mussels /by Abbie Gascho LandisWashington ;Covelo ;London :Island Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (255 pages) illustrations1-61091-807-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255).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.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.--Source other than the Library of Congress.Science and mystery of freshwater musselsFreshwater musselsFreshwater musselsSouthern StatesStream ecologySouthern StatesFreshwater biodiversity conservationSouthern StatesFreshwater biodiversity conservationfast(OCoLC)fst01736064Stream ecologyfast(OCoLC)fst01134567Southern StatesfastFreshwater mussels.Freshwater musselsStream ecologyFreshwater biodiversity conservationFreshwater biodiversity conservation.Stream ecology.594/.4Gascho Landis Abbie1248060MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164895403321Immersion2892953UNINA