Thames Mussel Studies 60 Years Apart Show Nature Decline
An 80-year-old Reading zoologist’s research from almost six decades ago has played a significant role in a ‘very worrying’ discovery about declining biodiversity in the River Thames. Tina Negus, from Lincolnshire, surveyed the Thames as a University of Reading zoology postgraduate student in 1964 to observe freshwater mussel populations in the river. Almost 60 years […]