Abstract
The life conditions of naiads are governed by a multitude of environmental factors. Tolerance to some of these factors by the animal can be tested in aquaria, but such experiments necessarily have a limited duration, and laboratory conditions invariably differ from those in nature. Fortunately, some of the important environmental factors leave their record in the growth rate and chemistry of the shell.
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Mutvei, H., Westermark, T. (2001). How Environmental Information Can Be Obtained from Naiad Shells. 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_21
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