• Captive breeding of European freshwater mussels as aconservation tool: A review 

      Geist, Juergen; Thielen, Frankie; Lavictoire, Louise; Hoess, Rebecca; Altmueller, Reinhard; Baudrimont, Magalie; Blaize, Christine; Campos, Miquel; Carrol, Paul; Daill, Daniel; Degelmann, Wolfgang; Dettmer, Rainer; Denic, Marco; Dury, Pierrick; de Eyto, Elvira; Grunicke, Felix; Gumpinger, Clemens; Jakobsen, Per J.; Kaldma, Katrin; Klaas, Kunnar; Legeay, Alexia; Magerøy, Jon Hamner; Moorkens, Evelyn A.; Motte, Gregory; Nakamura, Keiko; Ondina, Paz; Österling, Martin; Pichler-Scheder, Christian; Spisar, Ondrej; Reis, Joaquim; Schneider, Lea D.; Schwarzer, Arno; Selheim, Heidi; Soler, Joaquín; Taskinen, Jouni; Taylor, John; Strachan, Ben; Wengstrom, Niklas; Zając, Tadeusz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      1. Freshwater mussels are declining throughout their range. Their importantecological functions along with insufficient levels of natural recruitment haveprompted captive breeding for population augmentation and questions ...
    • A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalvemolluscs 

      Zieritz, Alexandra; Sousa, Ronaldo; Aldridge, David C.; Douda, Karel; Esteves, Eduardo; Ferreira-Rodríguez, Noé; Magerøy, Jon Hamner; Nizzoli, Daniele; Österling, Martin; Reis, Joaquim; Riccardi, Nicoletta; Daill, Daniel; Gumpinger, Clemens; Vaz, Ana Sofia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Identification of ecosystem services, i.e. the contributions that ecosystems make to human well-being, has proven instru-mental in galvanising public and political support for safeguarding biodiversity and its benefits to ...
    • Off the conservation radar: the hidden story of Europe’s tiny pea clams (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) 

      Halabowski, Dariusz; Sousa, Ronaldo; Lopes‑Lima, Manuel; Killeen, Ian; Aldridge, David C.; Zając, Katarzyna; Magerøy, Jon Hamner; Cossey, Daniel Alan; Urbańska, Maria; Österling, Martin; Prié, Vincent (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      This study highlights the conservation problems faced by the tiny freshwater bivalves of the family Sphaeriidae, also known as pea, pill, or fingernail clams (or mussels) in Europe. Despite their global distribution, assumed ...
    • The role of anthropogenic habitats in freshwater mussel conservation 

      Sousa, Ronaldo; Halabowski, Dariusz; Labecka, Anna M.; Douda, Karel; Aksenova, Olga V.; Bespalaya, Yulia; Bolotov, Ivan; Geist, Juergen; Jones, Hugh A.; Konopleva, Ekaterina; Klunzinger, Michael W.; Lasso, Carlos A.; Lewin, Iga; Liu, Xiongjun; Lopes-Lima, Manuel; Magerøy, Jon Hamner; Mlambo, Musa; Nakamura, Keiko; Nakano, Mitsunori; Österling, Martin; Pfeiffer, John; Prié, Vincent; Paschoal, Lucas R. P.; Riccardi, Nicoletta; Santos, Rogério; Shumka, Spase; Smith, Allan K.; Son, Mikhail O.; Teixeira, Amilcar; Thielen, Frankie; Torres, Santiago; Varandas, Simone; Vikhrev, Ilya V.; Wu, Xiaoping; Zieritz, Alexandra; Nogueira, Joana G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)