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The way in which a population ecologist approach the problem of species recovery for animals, if several species of freshwater mussels are extinct or threatened because of habitat destruction in the southeastern United States.
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The mussels are the species which are destructed because of the habitat destruction and dams fragmentation. Drought is also one of the reasons for the destruction of mussels.
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