Impacts of hydroelectric dams on fishes and fisheries in tropical rivers through the lens of functional traits

CC Arantes, DB Fitzgerald, DJ Hoeinghaus… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•River impoundment results in fairly predictable changes in fish functional
diversity.•The most vulnerable species have functional traits associated with flowing water …

Forty years of reform and opening up: China's progress toward a sustainable path

Y Lu, Y Zhang, X Cao, C Wang, Y Wang, M Zhang… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
After 40 years of reform and “opening up,” China has made remarkable economic progress.
Such economic prosperity, however, has been coupled with environmental degradation. We …

The productivity–stability trade-off in global food systems

M Gutgesell, K McCann, R O'Connor, K Kc… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Historically, humans have managed food systems to maximize productivity. This pursuit has
drastically modified terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems globally by reducing species diversity …

Linking freshwater fishery management to global food security and biodiversity conservation

PB McIntyre, CA Reidy Liermann… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Fisheries are an essential ecosystem service, but catches from freshwaters are often
overlooked. Hundreds of millions of people around the world benefit from low-cost protein …

High fishery catches through trophic cascades in China

CS Szuwalski, MG Burgess… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Indiscriminate and intense fishing has occurred in many marine ecosystems around the
world. Although this practice may have negative effects on biodiversity and populations of …

Evidence of indiscriminate fishing effects in one of the world's largest inland fisheries

PB Ngor, KS McCann, G Grenouillet, N So… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
While human impacts like fishing have altered marine food web composition and body size,
the status of the world's important tropical inland fisheries remains largely unknown. Here …

Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities

JPW Robinson, ID Williams, AM Edwards… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fishing pressure on coral reef ecosystems has been frequently linked to reductions of large
fishes and reef fish biomass. Associated impacts on overall community structure are …

A network of grassroots reserves protects tropical river fish diversity

AA Koning, KM Perales, E Fluet-Chouinard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Intensive fisheries have reduced fish biodiversity and abundance in aquatic ecosystems
worldwide,–.'No-take'marine reserves have become a cornerstone of marine ecosystem …

[SÁCH][B] Last days of the mighty Mekong

B Eyler - 2019 - books.google.com
Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs
thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its …

Principles for estimating fish productivity on coral reefs

RA Morais, DR Bellwood - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Coral reefs provide major nutritional inputs to humans through fish production. Yet, our
capacity to adequately assess fish productivity in these and other high-diversity aquatic …