Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear represents a substantial proportion of
global marine plastic pollution and can cause significant environmental and socio-economic …

Abstract The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna and Karnaphuli (GBMK) River Basin in Nepal,
India, and Bangladesh is among the world's most biodiverse river basins. However, human …

Bycatch mortality from entanglement in fishing nets is a major threat to the conservation of
endangered cetacean species, including South Asian river dolphins Platanista. Bycatch …

In riverine 'soundscapes', complex interactions between sound, substrate type, and depth
create difficulties in assessing impacts of anthropogenic noise pollution on freshwater fauna …

Abstract South Asian river dolphins (Platanista gangetica) are among the most endangered
of the world's cetaceans. The two subspecies in the family Platanistidae, Indus, and Ganges …

Environmental flows (EFs), essential for upholding the ecological integrity of rivers and
aquatic habitats, have been disrupted significantly by diverting water for agricultural …

Platanistoidea remains one of the most evolutionarily intriguing lineages of toothed whales
(Odontoceti). The clade comprises mostly extinct species from the late Oligocene–early …

Gharial were historically distributed throughout the major channels of the Indus, Ganges,
Mahanadi, Brahmaputra-Meghna and possibly Irrawaddy drainages, to elevations of< 500 …

The dolphins Inia geoffrensis—boto and Sotalia fluviatilis—tucuxi are threatened cetaceans
inhabiting river ecosystems in South America; population numbers are still lacking for many …

Ganges River dolphins echolocate, but this mechanism is inadequate for poor sonar-
echoing objects such as the monofilament gillnets, causing considerable net entanglement …