Pdfs of selected articles and book chapters. A complete publication list can be found in my CV.

Vaughn, Caryn C., S. Jerrine Nichols and Daniel E. Spooner. 2008. Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels. Journal of the North American Bentholocial Society 27(2): in press.

Galbraith, Heather S., Caryn C. Vaughn and C. Kate Meier. 2008. Environmental variables intearct across spatial scales to structure trichopteran assemblages in Ouachita Mountain rivers. Hydrobiologia 496:401-411. Download article.

Galbraith, Heather S., Daniel E. Spooner and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2008. Status of rare and endangered mussels in southeastern Oklahoma rivers. Southwestern Naturalist 53:45-50. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Daniel E. Spooner and Heather S. Galbraith.   2007.  Context‑dependent species identity effects within a functional group of filter-feeding bivalves. Ecology 88: 1654-1662. Download article.

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2007. Mussels of the Mountain Fork River, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Publications of the Oklahoma Biological Survey 8:14-18. Download article.

Elderkin, C.L., A.D. Christian, C.C. Vaughn, J.L. Metcalfe-Smith and D.J. Berg.  2007.  Population genetics of the freshwater mussel Amblema plicata (Say 1817)(Bivalvia: Unionidae): evidence of high dispersal and post glacial colonization.  Conservation Genetics 8:355-372 Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Daniel E. Spooner. 2006. Unionid mussels influence macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25: 691- 700 Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Daniel E. Spooner. 2006. Scale-dependent associations between native freshwater mussels and invasive Corbicula. Hydrobiologia 568: 331-339. Download article.

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2006. Context-dependent effects of freshwater mussels on the benthic community. Freshwater Biology 51:1016-1024; Corrigendum 51:1188. Download article. Download corrigendum.

Matthews, William J., Caryn C. Vaughn, Keith B. Gido and Edie Marsh-Matthews. 2005. Southern Plains rivers. Pages 283 - 325 in, Rivers of North America, A.C. Benke and C.E. Cushing (eds). Elsevier, 1168 pp. Download chapter.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2005. Freshwater mussel populations in southeastern Oklahoma: population trends and ecosystem services. Proceedings of Oklahoma Water 2005, Tulsa, OK. Paper #18. Oklahoma Water Resources Institute, Stillwater, OK. 12 pages. Download article.

Martinez, A. David., Daniel E. Spooner, Todd G. Adornata, Suzanne Y. Duding and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2004. Occurrence of the Rock Pocketbook mussel, Arcidens confragosus (Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the Poteau and Deep Fork Rivers of Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 84:79-80. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Daniel E. Spooner. 2004. Status of the mussel fauna of the Poteau River and implications for commercial harvest. American Midland Naturalist 152:136-152. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Keith B. Gido and Daniel E. Spooner. 2004. Ecosystem processes performed by unionid mussels in stream mesocosms: species roles and effects of abundance. Hydrobiologia 527:35-47. Download article..

Vaughn, Caryn C.  2003. The mussel fauna of the Glover River, Oklahoma.  Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 83:1-6. Download article..

Vaughn, Caryn C., Daniel E. Spooner and Bruce W. Hoagland. 2002. River weed growing epizooically on freshwater mussels. Southwestern Naturalist 47:604-605. Download article .

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Christine C. Hakenkamp. 2001. The functional role of burrowing bivalves in freshwater ecosystems. Freshwater Biology 46:1431-1446. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2000. Changes in the mussel fauna of the middle Red River drainage: 1910 - present. Pages 225-232 in Tankersley, R.A, Warmolts, D.I., Watters, G.T., Armitage, B.J., Johnson, P.D., and Butler, R.S. (Editors). Freshwater Mollusk Symposium Proceedings. Ohio Biological Survey, Columbus, Ohio. 274 pp. Download chapter.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Christopher M. Taylor. 2000. Macroecology of a host-parasite relationship. Ecography 23:11-20. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Christopher M. Taylor. 1999. Impoundments and the decline of freshwater mussels: a case study of an extinction gradient. Conservation Biology 13:912-920. Download article..

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1997. Regional patterns of mussel species distributions in North American rivers. Ecography 20:107-115. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Christopher M. Taylor and Kelly J. Eberhard. 1997. A comparison of the effectiveness of timed searches vs. quadrat sampling in mussel surveys . Pages 157-162, in Cummings, K.S., A.C. Buchanan, C.A. Mayer and T.J. Naimo (eds)., Conservation and Management of Freshwater Mussels II: Initiatives for the Future. Proceedings of a UMRCC symposium, 16-18 October 1995, St. Louis, Missouri. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee, Rock Island, Illinois.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1997. Catastrophic decline of the mussel fauna of the Blue River, Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 42:333-336. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Charles M. Mather, Mark Pyron, Patricia Mehlhop, and Estelle K. Miller. 1996. The current and historical mussel fauna of the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 41:325-328. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. and Mark Pyron. 1995. Population ecology of the endangered Ouachita Rock Pocketbook Mussel, Arkansia wheeleri (Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. American Malacological Bulletin 11:145-151. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 1993. Can biogeographic models be used to predict the persistence of mussel populations in rivers? Pp. 117-122 in, Cummings, K.S., A.C. Buchanan and L. M. Koch (eds)., Conservation and Management of Freshwater Mussels. Proceedings of a UMRCC symposium, 12-14 October 1992, St. Louis, Missouri. Upper Mississippi River Cons. Com., Rock Island, Illinois. 189 pp. Download chapter.