Fish conservation in South America is a pressing issue. The biodiversity of fishes, just as
with all other groups of plants and animals, is far from fully known. Continuing habitat loss …

Amazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of
biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that …

Infrastructure development and overfishing in the Amazon make it imperative to define
adequate scales for the ecosystem‐based management of commercial fisheries and the …

Abstract The Amazon River Basin contains the world's highest fish species diversity, with a
hydrologic cycle that creates a patchy distribution of floodplain lakes at low water and affords …

Fruit-eating by fishes represents an ancient (perhaps Paleozoic) interaction increasingly
regarded as important for seed dispersal (ichthyochory) in tropical and temperate …

Throughout Amazonia, overfishing has decimated populations of fruit-eating fishes,
especially the large-bodied characid, Colossoma macropomum. During lengthy annual …

Abstract Piranhas and pacus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) are a charismatic but
understudied family of Neotropical fishes. Here, we analyse a DNA barcode dataset …

Among terrestrial arthropods, the dragonfly species Pantala flavescens is remarkable due to
their nearly global distribution and extensive migratory ranges; the largest of any known …

Seed dispersal is a critical stage in the life history of plants. It determines the initial pattern of
juvenile distribution, and can influence community dynamics and the evolutionary …

Frugivorous fish play a prominent role in seed dispersal and reproductive dynamics of plant
communities in riparian and floodplain habitats of tropical regions worldwide. In Neotropical …