- Topic:Biodiversity
A systematic map of hydropower impacts on megafauna at the land-water interface
Flexibility in Aquatic Food Web Interactions: Linking Scales and Approaches
The crucial role of ecohydraulic factors in triggering sturgeon reproduction: Implications for active habitat restoration strategies in the Yangtze River
New fish migrations into the Panama Canal increase likelihood of interoceanic invasions in the Americas
The authors have compared the fish communities of Lake Gatun in the Panama Canal before and after the canal’s expansion in 2016: Marine fish species now make up 76 percent of the total biomass of the fish population and are primarily large predatory fishes. The lake’s food web is changing and local fisheries are impacted. There is also an increased risk of fishes colonizing the opposite ocean.
Amphibian conservation in Europe: the importance of pond condition

FAIRification of the DMRichR Pipeline: Advancing Epigenetic Research on Environmental and Evolutionary Model Organisms
Ontogenetic shifts by juvenile fishes highlight the need for habitat heterogeneity and connectivity in river restoration
The authors analysed the habitat use of larval and juvenile fishes in the lower river Rhine. More than 60 per cent of the fish species switched between five different habitat types during their development, which should be available both in the river and connected floodplains. However, human intervention has drastically altered and homogenised the European river landscapes.
Drivers of amphibian species richness in European ponds

Divorce Rates Better Predict Population-Level Reproductive Success in Little Penguins Than Foraging Behaviour or Environmental Factors
One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction
The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species to date has revealed that 24 per cent of the world’s freshwater fish, dragonfly, damselfly, crab, crayfish and shrimp species are at high risk of extinction.