Abstract Declines in North American freshwater biodiversity can be largely attributed to
anthropogenic disturbances that reduce habitat quantity, quality, and connectivity. In the …

Local extinction of species can occur with a substantial delay following habitat loss or
degradation. Accumulating evidence suggests that such extinction debts pose a significant …

Aim Land use change is one major threat to freshwater biodiversity, and land use change
scenarios can help to assess threats from future land use change, thereby guiding proactive …

We developed analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) models to predict fish species richness as
a function of two simple landscape-scale, binary variables (surface water connectivity to …

Conservationists are in need of objective metrics for prioritizing the management of habitats.
For individual species, the threat of extinction is often used to prioritize what species are in …

I propose four steps to markedly reduce the rate of species loss in the United States:(1)
Enact new legislation or an executive order requiring Bureau of Land Management (BLM) …

Because human actions alter the physical nature of aquatic ecosystems similarly worldwide,
the extinction risk among many freshwater fishes that share particular life-history traits may …

Human-centered land use causes ecosystem degradation and loss of biodiversity in
streams, yet such processes may be highly heterogeneous among species and regions. We …

We used phylogenetically based comparative analyses to test for associations between
extinction risk in European freshwater fishes and a variety of life history, ecological, and …

Freshwater protected areas are rare even though freshwater ecosystems are among the
most imperiled in the world. Conservation actions within terrestrial protected areas (TPAs) …