David L. Strayer

TL;DR: In this article, a portfolio of priority research topics for freshwater mussel conservation assessment is developed, which can guide conservation status assessments prior to the establishment of priority species and implementation of conservation management actions.

TL;DR: Simulation models show that zebra mussel populations can show a range of long-term trajectories, depending on the balance between adult space limitation, larval food limitation, and disturbance, which may vary across ecosystems.

TL;DR: Tests with simulated data show that a common metric for detecting and describing boom-bust dynamics, decline from an observed peak to a subsequent trough, tends to severely overestimate the frequency and severity of busts, and should be used cautiously if at all.

TL;DR: Examining the nature of the age-related slowing using convergent methodologies of Sternberg's additive factors logic, the speed-accuracy trade-off, and the P300 component of the event-related brain potential revealed a substantial component of slowing was manifest in perceptual encoding, response criterion adjustment, and response execution.

TL;DR: The results from the Hudson add to a growing literature that suggests that ecosystem changes linked with high phy toplankton biomass depend on a diverse range of system characteristics as well as whether phytoplankon are controlled by top-down or bottom-up mechanisms.