Much effort has been devoted to developing, constructing and refining fish passage facilities
to enable target species to pass barriers on fluvial systems, and yet, fishway science …

The hydrological connectivity of freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon basin makes them
highly sensitive to a broad range of anthropogenic activities occurring in aquatic and …

Most large rivers in South America are fragmented by large dams, and a common
management strategy to mitigate impacts has been construction of fish passes. Recent …

The Amazon basin hosts the Earth's highest diversity of freshwater fish. Fish species have
adapted to the basin's size and seasonal dynamics by displaying a broad range of migratory …

Within the rich diversity of South American freshwater fish, Colossoma macropomum
(Characiformes: Serrasalmidae), known as tambaqui, cachama or blackfin pacu, can reach …

In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic
colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to …

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 …

Migratory fishes are common in freshwaters throughout the world and can fundamentally
alter recipient ecosystems. We describe different types of fish migrations and consider their …

Despite being considered beneficial by providing a clean and renewable source of energy,
the construction of hydroelectric dams has extremely negative implications for Amazonian …