The Tocantins-Araguaia River basin is the largest basin located entirely in the Brazilian
territory. The high degree of endemism of its ichthyofauna has been revealed in several …

Abstract Neotropical Ichthyology promotes the Special Issue (SI)“Human impacts and the
loss of Neotropical freshwater fish diversity” with the purpose of publishing relevant scientific …

Agricultural land use is a primary driver of environmental impacts on streams. However, the
causal processes that shape these impacts operate through multiple pathways and at …

While land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change in streams, the nature
of such changes, and at which scales they occur, have not been synthesized. To synthesize …

Land-cover change often shifts the distribution of biomass in animal communities. However,
the effects of land-cover changes on functional diversity remain poorly understood for many …

The accelerated eutrophication of freshwater lakes has become an environmental problem
worldwide. Increasing numbers of studies highlight the need to incorporate functional and …

Abstract Changes in landscape composition caused by conversion of natural habitats into
human-altered ecosystems can directly influence the physical characteristics of stream …

Despite the socio-environmental importance of ichthyofauna, global fish biodiversity has
decreased, and the damming of rivers is one anthropogenic activity that causes this …

We investigated the mechanisms involved in the relationship between land-use changes
and aquatic biodiversity, using stream fish assemblages of the Brazilian Savanna (ie …

Assessing ecological health of aquatic ecosystems is crucial in the current context of
biodiversity loss to guide and prioritize management actions. Although several fish-based …