Agriculture, the world's most dominant land use type, burdens freshwater biodiversity with a
multitude of stressors such as diffuse pollution and hydromorphological alteration. However …

Mining activities have significantly affected the Neotropical freshwater ichthyofauna, the
most diverse in the world. However, no study has systematized knowledge on the subject. In …

Protecting riparian vegetation around streams is vital in reducing the detrimental effects of
environmental change on freshwater ecosystems and in maintaining aquatic biodiversity …

The growing human enterprise has sparked greater interest in identifying ecological
thresholds in land use conversion beyond which populations or communities demonstrate …

Land use intensification has led to conspicuous changes in plant and animal communities
across the world. Shifts in trait‐based functional composition have recently been …

Dam construction alters flow regimes and can change the composition of aquatic
communities. Using data from three Brazilian hydrographic basins, we tested the hypothesis …

The Tocantins-Araguaia River basin is the largest basin located entirely in the Brazilian
territory. The high degree of endemism of its ichthyofauna has been revealed in several …

Microplastic (MP) pollution is a global problem and has affected several biological levels
even in protected areas. In the present study, MP contamination was investigated in fish …

Abstract Neotropical Ichthyology promotes the Special Issue (SI)“Human impacts and the
loss of Neotropical freshwater fish diversity” with the purpose of publishing relevant scientific …

Inventorying biodiversity is fundamental to overcoming knowledge shortfalls in species
discovery and description (Linnean shortfall), their distributions (Wallacean shortfall) and …