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Life-History Variation on Different Taxonomic Levels of Naiads

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Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 145))

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A conservative groundplan (e.g. two pairs of gills, two adductor muscles etc.), the freshwater habitat, a semi-infaunal way of life, the mode of filter feeding and a larva which has to pass through a parasitic phase are features which seem to have never been altered during evolution (except for some few cases where larvae develop directly; see below). This uniformity (Chap. 1, this Vol.) seems to be a contradiction to the nearly global distribution of naiads (Chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, this Vol.) and to their high species numbers (Chaps. 12, 15, this Vol.), which, as Watters (this Vol.) points out, is not only a recent phenomenon, but occurred similarly during the Mesozoic. Naiads are able to adapt to the conditions of nearly all freshwater habitats. They occur in arctic rivers extremely poor in nutrients (Chaps. 19, 20, this Vol.), in highly eutrophic streams and lakes (Chaps. 17, 18, this Vol.) and even in temporary flood-plain billabongs and episodic streams in the tropics (Chap. 2, this Vol.). Occupying so many different niches requires adaptability and thus variability of life-history traits.

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  1. Institut für Biologie I, Universität Freiburg, 79104, Hauptstr. 1, Freiburg, Germany

    Gerhard Bauer

  2. Institut für Zoologie, Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 30559, Bünteweg 17, Hannover, Germany

    Klaus Wächtler

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Bauer, G. (2001). Life-History Variation on Different Taxonomic Levels of Naiads. In: Bauer, G., Wächtler, K. (eds) Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Ecological Studies, vol 145. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56869-5_5

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