The Emergency Recovery Plan for freshwater biodiversity recognizes that addressing
nonnative species is one of six principal actions needed to bend the curve in freshwater …

Aquatic invasive species (AIS) are one of the principal threats to freshwater biodiversity.
Exclusion barriers are increasingly being used as a management strategy to control the …

Extinction risk for 101 valid species and 18 unique genetic lineages of native freshwater
fishes of South Africa was assessed in 2016 following the IUCN Red List criteria. An …

Studies of the impact of alien species on the environment are increasingly being carried out,
and there has been ongoing debate about how to standardise the description of these …

Improving the ability to detect and quantify rare freshwater fishes in remote locations is of
growing conservation concern, as the distributions of many native fishes are contracting to …

A changing climate and often unregulated water extractions have exposed over 2 billion
people to water stress worldwide. While water managers have explored a portfolio of options …

Black Bass, a collective name for members of the centrarchid genus Micropterus, are native
to North America, but have been introduced globally to enhance recreational angling. This …

Freshwater systems and their associated biodiversity are among the most threatened
ecosystems globally. The greatest threats to freshwater fishes are the introduction and …

Resilience thinking has generated much interest among scientific communities, yet most
resilience concepts have not materialized into management applications. We believe that …

Stream fishes of the Eastern Afromontane region are among the least studied vertebrates in
this region, despite the potential for harbouring cryptic diversity. The present study examined …