Assessment of fish trophic ecology in natural environments is imperative to understand
biological and ecological requirements, supporting the management and conservation of …

Popular as aquarium fish, armored catfishes from South America (Pterygoplichthys spp.)
have been introduced and become invasive in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide …

Functional decoupling of oral and pharyngeal jaws is widely considered to have expanded
the ecological repertoire of cichlid fishes. But, the degree to which the evolution of these jaw …

Climate change is causing shifts in the distribution patterns of freshwater fish at various
spatio‐temporal scales. Tropical freshwater fish are vulnerable, especially in areas where a …

Neotropical cichlids exhibit great diversity of morphological traits associated with feeding,
locomotion, and habitat use. We examined the relationship between functional traits and diet …

Carangid fishes are commercially important in fisheries and aquaculture. They are
distributed worldwide in both tropical and subtropical marine ecosystems. Their role in food …

During adaptive radiation, diversification within clades is limited by adaptation to the
available ecological niches, and this may drive patterns of both trait and species diversity …

We investigated how the riverine network influences taxonomic and functional beta diversity
patterns of fish assemblages in the mainstem/headwater (lateral) and upstream/downstream …

Assessments of trophic diversity are critical for evaluating ecological integrity of habitats, but
interpretations of such assessments require an understanding of variation across natural …

In the present study we evaluated the putative cases of sympatric speciation in the genus
Herichthys by studying the variation in head shape using principal component analysis …