Building bridges between environmental and political agendas is essential nowadays in
face of the increasing human pressure on natural environments, including wetlands …

Microplastics pollution is widespread in marine ecosystems and a major threat to
biodiversity. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the impacts of microplastics in freshwater …

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 …

Abstract The La Plata basin is the second largest basin of South America and has supported
important river fisheries for more than a century. In this paper, we evaluate for the first time …

Las Áreas Clave para la Biodiversidad (ACB) son sitios de importancia para la persistencia
global de la biodiversidad, que pueden ser protegidos bajo distintas categorías de manejo y …

The Pantanal is considered the largest continuous freshwater wetland in the world, and its
sustainable use requires a unified conceptual framework. The lengthy process to establish …

The Paraguay-Paraná river system represents a unique, free-flowing corridor that extends
about 3500 km southwards from the Pantanal to the Rio de la Plata estuary, crossing four …

Because dams block migratory routes of potamodromous fish to their spawning areas, and
energy generation changes natural flow seasonality, it is necessary to identify spawning …

Many frugivorous animals act simultaneously as seed predators and dispersers, and shifts in
the abundance and mean phenotype of the frugivore population can alter the prevalence of …

The role of local biodiversity to cultural ecosystem services (CES) has been increasingly
recognized. Yet, it is still unclear how local species can represent multiple CES in the same …