To understand how Neotropical freshwater fishes (NFF) benefit society, we conducted a
broad literature survey to (i) map and list the ecosystem services (ES) generated by these …

For millennia humans have extracted biological and physical resources from the planet to
sustain societies and enable the development of technology and infrastructure. Growth in …

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 …

Inland fisheries feed greater than 150 million people globally, yet their status is rarely
assessed due to their socio-ecological complexity and pervasive lack of data. Here, we …

The riverine population of the Amazon Basin are among the largest consumers of fish in the
world, but the consumption patterns could be regionally distinct. Moreover, their total fish …

Fishing connects people, aquatic systems, places, and fish consumer markets all around the
world. Our understanding of the magnitude and intensity of these interactions are …

The study focuses on the Huachana lake, a vulnerable ecosystem in the Peruvian Amazon
region that receives wastewater from the city of Iquitos. Despite its significance in …

The use of fishery resources by artisanal fishers in the Amazon is highly adaptive and may
be influenced by environmental drivers such as river level fluctuations and seasonality, as …

Background Ethnoichthyology studies the knowledge of human communities about the uses,
perception, and behavioral characteristics of fish, based on their cosmology, cosmogony …

The doncella Pseudoplatystoma punctifer is an economically and ecologically important
catfish in the Amazon basin. However, little is known about its age, growth and population …