A science and management partnership to restore coregonine diversity to the Laurentian Great Lakes

DB Bunnell, AS Ackiss, KM Alofs, CO Brant… - Environmental …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Similar to many freshwater ecosystems, the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America have
undergone numerous anthropogenic stressors resulting in considerable loss of biodiversity …

Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity

S Weigmann - Journal of Fish Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, batoids and chimaeras) of the
world is presented. As of 7 November 2015, the number of species totals 1188, comprising …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Basses (Micropterus)

D Kim, AT Taylor, TJ Near - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Informed management and conservation efforts are vital to sustainable recreational fishing
and biodiversity conservation. Because the taxonomic rank of species is important in …

[HTML][HTML] Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region Volume 2

CW Mecklenburg, E Johannesen, I Byrkjedal… - 2018 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This atlas provides information on geographic distributions, habitat, taxonomy, and
morphological identification characteristics for 205 of the marine fish species occurring in the …

Non-native fishes in Florida freshwaters: a literature review and synthesis

PJ Schofield, WF Loftus - Reviews in fish biology and fisheries, 2015 - Springer
Non-native fishes have been known from freshwater ecosystems of Florida since the 1950s,
and dozens of species have established self-sustaining populations. Nonetheless, no …

Comparing environmental metabarcoding and trawling survey of demersal fish communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

SF Afzali, H Bourdages, M Laporte, C Mérot… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity assessment is an important part of conservation management that ideally can
be accomplished with noninvasive methods without influencing the structure and functioning …

The relation of lotic fish and benthic macroinvertebrate condition indices to environmental factors across the conterminous USA

AT Herlihy, JC Sifneos, RM Hughes, DV Peck… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
National and regional ecological assessments are essential for making rational decisions
concerning water body conservation and management at those spatial extents. We analyzed …

The taxonomy, phylogeny, and distribution of lampreys

IC Potter, HS Gill, CB Renaud, D Haoucher - … : biology, conservation and …, 2015 - Springer
The lampreys (Petromyzontiformes), one of the two surviving groups of agnathan (jawless)
vertebrates, currently consist of 41 recognized species. This group has an antitropical …

Conservation of native lampreys

PS Maitland, CB Renaud, BR Quintella… - … and Control: Volume 1, 2015 - Springer
Forty-four species of lampreys (Petromyzontidae) are currently recognized:(a) nine species
are anadromous and parasitic (ie, feeding on actinopterygian fishes after …

[HTML][HTML] The Dual Challenges of Generality and Specificity When Developing Environmental DNA Markers for Species and Subspecies of Oncorhynchus

TM Wilcox, KJ Carim, KS McKelvey, MK Young… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling is a powerful tool for detecting invasive and native
aquatic species. Often, species of conservation interest co-occur with other, closely related …