This blog post is provided by Garrett Hopper and Carla Atkinson and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “A test of the loose-equilibrium concept with long-lived organisms: evaluating temporal change in freshwater mussel communities”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, they used long-term monitoring datasets for mussel beds from rivers in the USA to assess the stability of mussels … Continue reading Addressing the stability of freshwater mussel assemblages