The Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha), one of the most widely used bioindicators of persistent organic pollutants, trace metals and radionuclides in several worldwide freshwater ecosystems, has been used to monitor DDT contamination trends in Lake Maggiore since 1996, caused by industrial effluents on a tributary of the River Toce, one of the major affluents of the lake. Dreissena specimens w...

The presence of microplastics (MPs) in several components different ecosystems has aroused great concern and led to numerous studies on MP pollution. Although there been an increasing number these aquatic ecosystems, no data about the pollution zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha, Pallas 1771) living Beyhan dam lake (Elaz??, Türkiye) are available. This study aimed investigate MPs freshwater spe...

Twenty sites along the St. Lawrence River were sampled to determine if the distribution and abundance of invasive mussels (zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis)) are explained by physicochemical variables. Calcium concentration, substrate size, and depth independently explained significant proportions of variation in biomass for both species. Zebra mussel po...

0[ Freshwater mussels "Order Unionoida# are the most imperiled faunal group in North America^ 59) of described species are considered endangered or threatened\ and 01) are presumed extinct[ Widespread habitat degradation "including pollution\ siltation\ river channelization and impoundment# has been the primary cause of extinction during this century\ but a new stress was added in the last deca...

Determining when and where the ecological impacts of invasive species will be most detrimental and whether the effects of multiple invaders will be superadditive, or subadditive, is critical for developing global management priorities to protect native species in advance of future invasions. Over the past century, the decline of freshwater bivalves of the family Unionidae has been greatly accel...

Although zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) have invaded waters across Europe for over 200 years, they colonized Ireland only within the past decade. To test the hypothesis that Ireland was colonized by adultD. polymorpha, we examined mussels from different sites along the Lower Shannon River system in Ireland for the presence of host specific and generalist endosymbionts.Within the mantle ca...