Toward a better understanding of freshwater fish responses to an increasingly drought-stricken world

RJ Lennox, DA Crook, PB Moyle, DP Struthers… - Reviews in fish biology …, 2019‏ - Springer
Drought is a constant and important consequence of natural climatic processes and most
freshwater fishes have adaptations to counter its effects. However, a changing global climate …

Relationships between forest cover and fish diversity in the Amazon River floodplain

CC Arantes, KO Winemiller, M Petrere… - Journal of applied …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Habitat degradation leads to biodiversity loss and concomitant changes in ecosystem
processes. Tropical river floodplains are highly threatened by land cover changes and …

Community-based management induces rapid recovery of a high-value tropical freshwater fishery

JV Campos-Silva, CA Peres - Scientific reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
Tropical wetlands are highly threatened socio-ecological systems, where local communities
rely heavily on aquatic animal protein, such as fish, to meet food security. Here, we quantify …

How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?

AS Fleischmann, F Papa, A Fassoni-Andrade… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes,
which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human …

Fishery yields vary with land cover on the Amazon River floodplain

L Castello, LL Hess, R Thapa, DG McGrath… - Fish and …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Inland fisheries underpin food security in many tropical countries. The most productive
inland fisheries in tropical and subtropical develo** countries occur in large river …

Effects of loss of lateral hydrological connectivity on fish functional diversity

X Liu, H Wang - Conservation biology, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Loss of lateral hydrological connectivity (LHC) is a major cause of biodiversity decline in
river floodplains, yet little is known about its effects on aquatic functional diversity in these …

Dual-season and full-polarimetric C band SAR assessment for vegetation map** in the Amazon várzea wetlands

LF de Almeida Furtado, TSF Silva… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This study answered the following questions: 1) Is polarimetric C-band SAR (PolSAR) more
efficient than dual-polarization (dual-pol) C-band SAR for map** várzea floodplain …

Floodplain land cover affects biomass distribution of fish functional diversity in the Amazon River

CC Arantes, KO Winemiller, A Asher, L Castello… - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Land-cover change often shifts the distribution of biomass in animal communities. However,
the effects of land-cover changes on functional diversity remain poorly understood for many …

Seasonal dynamics of the fish assemblage in a floodplain lake at the confluence of the Negro and Amazon Rivers

CP Röpke, SA Amadio, KO Winemiller… - Journal of Fish …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The temporal effect of discharge and limnology on fish composition and species diversity in
a floodplain lake at the confluence of the Amazon and Negro Rivers was evaluated. Species …

Seasonal and interannual dynamics of river-floodplain multispecies fisheries in relation to flood pulses in the Lower Amazon

VJ Isaac, L Castello, PRB Santos, ML Ruffino - Fisheries Research, 2016‏ - Elsevier
River-floodplain fisheries are highly productive as seasonal water level changes, known as
'flood pulses,'increase the productivity of fish populations by providing them with feeding and …