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Elissa Buttermore

The primary goals of this proposed project are to help identify and prioritize threats to endangered mussels and to determine whether existing environmental concentrations of ammonia, copper, and major ions in sediment pore-water are contributing to the decline of native mussel populations, as indicated by recent laboratory toxicity tests. These goals are consistent with the needs identified in the National trategy for the Conservation of Mussels, particularly to “increase coordination and information exchange among entities that study, manage, harvest, conserve, or recover native freshwater mussels”; and “determine how various perturbations impact mussels and their habitat, and provide managers with the information...
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