Climate Warming as a Possible Trigger of Keystone Mussel Population Decline in Oligotrophic Rivers at the Continental Scale

  • Ivan N. Bolotov
  • , Alexander A. Makhrov
  • , Mikhail Yu. Gofarov
  • , Olga V. Aksenova
  • , Paul E. Aspholm
  • , Yulia V. Bespalaya
  • , Mikhail B. Kabakov
  • , Yulia S. Kolosova
  • , Alexander V. Kondakov
  • , Thomas Ofenbock
  • , Andrew N. Ostrovsky
  • , Igor Yu. Popov
  • , Ted von Proschwitz
  • , Mudite Rudzite
  • , Maris Rudzitis
  • , Svetlana E. Sokolova
  • , Ilmari Valovirta
  • , Ilya V. Vikhrev
  • , Maxim V. Vinarski
  • , Alexey A. Zotin

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Original languageEnglish
Article number35
Number of pages9
JournalScientific Reports
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jan 2018

Funding

We thank the Associate Editor and four anonymous reviewers for their helpful and insightful comments. This work was partly funded by grants from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (project nos. 6.2343.2017/4.6 and 6.1352.2017/4.6), Scientific Program of RAS's Presidium no. 41 "Biodiversity of Natural Systems and Biological Resources of Russia", Scientific Program of RAS's Presidium no. 52 "Arctic", Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (project nos 0409-2016-0022 and 0409-2015-0143), and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR (project nos 16-05-00854, 16-34-60152, 17-45-290016, 17-45-290436, and 17-45-290066). The authors would like to thank A. S. Aksenov, O. N. Bespaliy, G. A. Dvoryankin, M. Eriksson, L. Henrikson, P. V. Kiyashko, A. V. Semushin, and L. L. Yarochnovich for their help during this study and to P. Oulasvirta and O. N. Bespaliy for permission to use their photos in the paper.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106054 Zoology
  • 106026 Ecosystem research

Keywords

  • WATER PEARL MUSSEL
  • MARGARITIFERA-MARGARITIFERA L
  • CONSERVATION
  • TRENDS
  • BIODIVERSITY
  • TEMPERATURES
  • ECOLOGY
  • THREATS
  • RANGE
  • SHELL

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