Freshwater ecosystems are sensitive to disturbances related to human activities, such as
climate and land-use changes. To predict and understand the potential impacts of these …

Species are distributed in predictable ways in geographic spaces. The three principal factors
that determine geographic distributions of species are biotic interactions (B), abiotic …

Black bass Micropterus spp. are quintessential North American sportfishes that support
economically valuable fisheries and act as keystone predators within aquatic ecosystems …

Invasive alien species represent one of the major factors of global loss of biodiversity and
disruption of natural ecosystems. The small Indian mongoose, Urva auropunctata, is …

Despite increasing efforts globally to remove dams and construct fish passage structures,
broad-scale analyses balancing tradeoffs between cost and habitat gains from these …

Turtles are among the most threatened vertebrate groups, and reconstruction of population
and distributional trends can be important for evaluating their status and defining …

Invasive species are considered as one of the major threats to biodiversity and represent a
major challenge in the conservation of natural ecosystems, in preventing damage to …

Mangrove forests are the most important ecosystems on Pohnpei Island, Federated States of
Micronesia, as the island communities of the central Pacific rely on the forests for many …

Climate change is expected to cause the extinction of vulnerable species and reduce
available habitat for others. Freshwater fishes are particularly vulnerable considering they …

Two primary goals in fisheries research are to (i) understand how habitat and environmental
conditions influence the distribution of fishes across the landscape and (ii) make predictions …