TY - BOOK ID - 78493635 TI - Immersion PY - 2017 SN - 1610918088 9781610918084 9781610918077 161091807X PB - Washington, DC DB - UniCat KW - Freshwater mussels. KW - Freshwater mussels KW - Stream ecology KW - Freshwater biodiversity conservation KW - Freshwater biodiversity conservation. KW - Stream ecology. KW - River ecology KW - Freshwater ecology KW - Hyporheic zones KW - Conservation of freshwater biodiversity KW - Freshwater biological diversity conservation KW - Aquatic biodiversity conservation KW - Freshwater biodiversity KW - Clams, Freshwater KW - Fresh-water mussels KW - Freshwater clams KW - Mussels, Fresh-water KW - Naiades (Mollusks) KW - Naiads (Mollusks) KW - Unionacea KW - Freshwater invertebrates KW - Mussels KW - Unionoida KW - Conservation KW - Southern States. KW - American South KW - American Southeast KW - Former Confederate States KW - Southeast KW - Southeast United States KW - Southeastern States KW - Southern United States KW - The South KW - U.S. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493635 AB - 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.-- ER -