Freshwater ecosystems and their associated biota are among the most endangered in the
world. This, combined with escalating human pressure on water resources, demands that …

Protected areas are a cornerstone strategy for terrestrial and increasingly marine
biodiversity conservation, but their use for conserving inland waters has received …

We review recent advances in systematic conservation planning in fresh waters. Most
modern systematic planning approaches are based on the CARE principles …

The potential for conservation of individual species has been greatly advanced by the
International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) development of objective …

To date, the predominant use of systematic conservation planning has been to evaluate and
conserve areas of high terrestrial biodiversity. Although studies in freshwater ecosystems …

Graph theoretic approaches have received increased interest recently in landscape
planning and conservation in the terrestrial realm, because these approaches facilitate the …

Presence-only models can aid conservation and management of threatened, elusive
species. We developed a Maxent model for the rare cerambycid beetle Rosalia longicorn …

Anthropogenic disturbances impact freshwater biota but are rarely incorporated into
conservation planning due to the difficulties in quantifying threats. There is currently no …

Freshwater biodiversity of the United States has long been recognized for its high level of
species richness. The US crayfish fauna is richer than that found in any other country or …

Summer air and stream water temperatures are expected to rise in the state of Wisconsin,
USA, over the next 50 years. To assess potential climate warming effects on stream fishes …