Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2011. Species traits and environmental gradients interact to govern primary production in freshwater mussel communities. Oikos DOI 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19380.x . Download article.

Spooner, Daniel E., Caryn C. Vaughn and Heather S. Galbraith. 2011. Species traits and environmental conditions govern the relationship between biodiversity effects across trophic levels. Oecologia DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2110-1. Download article.

Allen, Daniel C. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2011. Density-dependent biodiversity effects on physical habitat modification by freshwater bivalves. Ecology 92:1013-1019. Download article. Nature Research Highlight of this article.

Galbraith, Heather S. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2011. Effects of reservoir management on the condition and reproductive traits of downstream mussel populations. River Research and Applications, 27:193-201. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1350. Download article.

Galbraith, Heather S., Daniel E. Spooner and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2010. Synergistic effects of regional climate patterns and local water management on freshwater mussel communities. Biological Conservation 143:1175-1183. Download article.

Allen, Daniel C. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2010. Complex hydraulic and substrate variables limit freshwater mussel species richness and abundance. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29:383-394. DOI: 10.1899/09-024.1 Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2010. Biodiversity losses and ecosystem function in freshwaters: emerging conclusions and research directions. Bioscience 60:25-35. Download article.

Galbraith, Heather S. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Temperature and food interact to influence gamete development in freshwater mussels. Hydrobiologia 636: 35-47. Download article

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn.  2009.  Species richness increases secondary production of freshwater mussels through complementarity: A partitioning approach applied to natural communities.  Ecology 90:781-790. Download article.

Galbraith, Heather S., Sarah Frazier, Brenda Allison and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Comparison of gill surface morphology across a guild of suspension-feeding unionid bivalves. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75:103-107. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C. 2009. Mollusca. Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Likens, G.E. (Editor), Elsevier, Oxford. 2:361-371. Email me for a reprint.

Allen, Daniel C. and Caryn C. Vaughn. 2009. Burrowing behavior of freshwater mussels in experimentally manipulated communities. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28:93-100. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C., Daniel C. Allen, Pascal Irmscher and Carrie J. Miller. 2009. Book review of Strayer, David L., Freshwater mussel ecology: a multifactor approach to distribution and abundance. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28:515-516. Download review.

Allen, Daniel C., Dane Morris and Caryn C. Vaughn.  2008.  Nerodia sipedon (Northern Water Snake) killed by mussel. Herpetological Review 39:471-472. Download article.

Spooner, Daniel E. and Caryn C. Vaughn.  2008.  A trait-based approach to evaluating species roles in stream ecosystems:  Implications for the effects of climate change on community structure and material cycling. Oecologia 158:307-317. Download article.

Vaughn, Caryn C., S. Jerrine Nichols and Daniel E. Spooner.  2008.  Community and foodweb ecology of freshwater mussels.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27:409-423. Download article

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

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 596: 401-411. 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.

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.

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.

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. Download chapter

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.