Mussel memory
28 November 2022How fresh-water mussels and a stretch of the River Thames connected two postgraduate scientists separated by over half a century.
Mussel survey reveals alarming degradation of River Thames ecosystem since the 1960s
28 November 2022Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species – the depressed river mussel – completely gone.
Conservationists may be unintentionally spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations
12 April 2021Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can help to restore degraded ecosystems. But scientists say there is a high risk that these relocations are accidentally spreading diseases and parasites.
