Review and conceptual models of agricultural impacts and water quality in waterways of the Great Barrier Reef catchment area

AM Davis, RG Pearson, JE Brodie… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Adequate conceptual frameworks that link land use to water quality and ecosystem health
are lacking for tropical and subtropical freshwater systems, so we review here extensive …

Fresh waters and estuaries of the Great Barrier Reef catchment: Effects and management of anthropogenic disturbance on biodiversity, ecology and connectivity

RG Pearson, NM Connolly, AM Davis, JE Brodie - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the literature on the ecology, connectivity, human impacts and management of
freshwater and estuarine systems in the Great Barrier Reef catchment (424,000 km 2), on …

Diversity, distribution and extinction risk of native freshwater fishes of South Africa

A Chakona, MS Jordaan, DC Raimondo… - Journal of Fish …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Threats and opportunities for freshwater conservation under future land use change scenarios in the United States

S Martinuzzi, SR Januchowski‐Hartley… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems provide vital resources for humans and support high levels of
biodiversity, yet are severely threatened throughout the world. The expansion of human land …

Water quality variation along streams with similar agricultural development but contrasting riparian vegetation

NM Connolly, RG Pearson, D Loong… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2015 - Elsevier
We measured water quality along four Australian tropical streams in two catchments with
similar agricultural development (mainly sugarcane growing) but contrasting riparian …

Do protected areas benefit freshwater species? A broad‐scale assessment for fish in A ustralia's M urray–D arling B asin

BC Chessman - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Assessment of the performance of protected areas in conserving freshwater biodiversity has
been limited, has mostly involved small‐scale studies and has produced mixed findings. I …

Protected areas and endemic freshwater fishes of the Cape Fold Ecoregion: missing the boat for fish conservation?

MS Jordaan, A Chakona… - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Freshwater systems and their associated biodiversity are among the most threatened
ecosystems globally. The greatest threats to freshwater fishes are the introduction and …

Tropical stream diatom communities–The importance of headwater streams for regional diversity

J Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola, M Siljander, V Heikinheimo… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding how species are distributed in space and time is a focal element guiding
conservational efforts under ongoing climate change and the Holocene extinction …

Biodiversity values of remnant freshwater floodplain lagoons in agricultural catchments: evidence for fish of the Wet Tropics bioregion, northern Australia

AH Arthington, PC Godfrey, RG Pearson… - Aquatic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical floodplain wetlands are among the world's most threatened and poorly documented
freshwater ecosystems. This paper describes patterns of fish diversity in remnant freshwater …

Fish diversity and its relationship with environmental variables in Kamala River, Nepal

S Ghimire, N Koju - Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 2021 - smujo.id
Abstract Ghimire S, Koju NP. 2021. Short Communication: Fish diversity and its relationship
with environmental variables in Kamala River, Nepal. Biodiversitas 22: 4865-4871. Kamala …