The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839) is a large, primarily coastally
distributed shark famous for its ability to penetrate far into freshwater bodies in tropical …

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

The present work is part of a process to create a Catalogue of the Freshwater Fishes of
Colombia and consisted in the depuration and updating of the taxonomic and geographic …

Species of the genus Pseudoplatystoma, the long-whiskered catfishes, are important in
commercial and recreational fisheries in South America, and some species have become …

Tropical rivers are experiencing an unprecedented boom in dam construction. Despite rapid
dam expansion, knowledge about the ecology of tropical rivers and the implications of …

The remarkable fish diversity in the Caribbean rivers of north‐western South America
evolved under the influences of the dramatic environmental changes of neogene northern …

The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) is a general approach to fisheries management
that essentially balances the aims for human and ecological well-being under the broad …

There is limited information about Colombian fisheries available from government sources.
In consequence, as is the case for many artisanal or subsistence fisheries, fishermen, local …

The genus Paratrygon, currently recognized as the sole monotypic genus of the family
Potamotrygonidae, has a considerably greater diversity than previously indicated, including …

The Neotropical region represents one of the greatest biodiversity hot spots on earth.
Despite its unparalleled biodiversity, regional comparative phylogeographic studies are still …