Description
Records of freshwater mussels were compiled from museum collections, private individual shell collections,and field records of biologists working in Vermont at the time. Herbert Athearn, Arthur Clarke, William Clench, Mark DesMeules, Chris Fichtel, Steven Fiske, Larry Master, Carl Pagel, Doug Smith, Ruth Turner, and Susi von Oettingen are responsible for most of the mussel records. Records from a total of 270 sampling stations throughout the state are presented in this atlas. Site-specific historic (those prior to 1970) records are scarce therefore we do not differentiate between current and historic records in this atlas. We do differentiate between sampling points where mussels were found and where they were not. This report on mussel distribution is not necessarily complete; some streams have been under-sampled or not sampled at all, while many lakes have never been surveyed. The authors hope this atlas will spur additional interest in freshwater mussels, and that the atlas will be updated in the future to reflect additional locations and changes in species distributions.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 443 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Fichtel C, Smith D (2023): Vermont Freshwater Mussel Atlas 1995. v1.5. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtfreshwatermusselatlas1995&v=1.5
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vermont Center for Ecostudies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4fa43229-ab7a-4bae-a760-12460a37f5c6. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
State of Vermont, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.618, -73.696], North East [45.213, -71.323] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Freshwater mussels of Vermont
| Class | Bivalvia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1800-01-01 / 1995-01-01 |
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Project Data
https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vermont-freshwater-mussel-atlas/
| Title | Vermont Atlas of Life |
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| Identifier | VAL |
| Study Area Description | State of Vermont, USA |
| Design Description | https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vermont-freshwater-mussel-atlas/ |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
See http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Freshwater-Mussels-of-VT-1995.pdf
| Study Extent | State of Vermont, USA. |
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| Quality Control | See http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Freshwater-Mussels-of-VT-1995.pdf |
Method step description:
- see http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Freshwater-Mussels-of-VT-1995.pdf
Bibliographic Citations
- Fichtel, C. and D.G. Smith. 1995. The Freshwater Mussels of Vermont. Nongame and Natural Heritage Program – Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept. Technical Report 18. Montpelier, VT. 54 pp. http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Freshwater-Mussels-of-VT-1995.pdf
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 4fa43229-ab7a-4bae-a760-12460a37f5c6 |
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| https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtfreshwatermusselatlas1995 |