Online library
This list does not represent a rating or ranking, it is just a compilation, which will be extended on a regular base. Something missing? Do you have interesting background literature and like to see it on our list? Please contact Jörg Freyhof (IGB).
Books
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Mapping species distributions. Franklin, 2009, Cambridge University Press.
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Rivers of Europe. Tockner et al. 2008. Academic Press.
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Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA), Special issue of Hydrobiologia, 2008.
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Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes, Kottelat & Freyhof, 2007.
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A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation. Silk & Ciruna 2004, Island Press.
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DIVERSITAS: Challenges for freshwater biodiversity research.
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Journal publications
- Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity, Vorosmarty et al 2010, Nature
Link to article - Restricted-Range Fishes and the Conservation of Brazilian Freshwaters. Nogueira et al. 2010. PLoS ONE
Link to article - Fish and aquatic habitat conservation in South America: a continental overview with emphasis on neotropical systems. Barletta et al. 2010. Journal of Fish Biology 76, 2118–2176, DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02684.x
Link to article - Is there a need for a '100 questions exercise' to enhance fisheries and aquatic conservation, policy, management and research? Lessons from a global 100 questions exercise on conservation of biodiversity. Cooke et al. 2010. Journal of Fish Biology 76. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02666.x
Link to article - Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species. Schindler et al. 2010. Nature 465, DOI: 10.1038/nature09060
Link to article - Towards a Duty of Care for Biodiversity Earl et al. 2010. Environmental Management 45 (4), DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9444-z
Link to article - A Water Quality Model for Regional Stream Assessment and Conservation Strategy Development. Meixler et al. 2010. Environmental Management 45:868–880,
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9453-y
Link to article - Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe. Pysek et al. 2010. PNAS
Link to article - Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization. Woodward et. al. 2010. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B.
Link to article - Juvenile salmonid populations in a temperate river system track synoptic trends in climate. Clews et al. 2010. Global Change Biology,DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02211.x
Link to article - Facilitation cascade drives positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion success. Altieri et al. 2010. Ecology, 91 (5): 1269 DOI: 10.1890/09-1301.1
Link to article - Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500. Tierney et al. 2010, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo865
Link to article - Global biodiversity: Indicators of recent declines: Butchart et al. 2010, Scienceexpress, 29 April 2010.
Link to article - What is the Best Dose of Nature and Green Exercise for Improving Mental Health ? Barton and Pretty, 2010.
Link to article - Environmental stability and lake plankton diversity- contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability. Shurin et al. 2010, Ecology Letters 13: 453-463.
Link to article - Climate change and the future of freshwater biodiversity in Europe: a primer for policy-makers, Moss et al., Freshwater Reviews, 2009.
Link to article - Quantifying the effect of catchment land use and water nutrient concentrations on freshwater river and stream biodiversity. Weijters
et al. 2009. Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 19: 104–112, DOI: 10.1002/aqc.989
Link to article - Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation. Abell et al., Bioscience, 2008.
Donwload pdf - Distribution modelling to guide stream fish conservation: an example using the mountain sucker in the Black Hills National Forest, USA. Dauwalter
et al. 2008. Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 18, DOI: 10.1002/aqc.940
Link to article - A biodiversity-inspired approach to aquatic ecosystem modelling. Bruggeman et al. 2007. Limnol. Oceanogr., 52(4) 1533–1544,DOI:10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1533
Download pdf - Conservatiion Biology for the Biodiversity Crisis: A Freshwater Follow-up. Abell, Conservation Biology, 2002.
Download pdf - Nonindigenous Crayfishes Threaten North American Freshwater Biodiversity: Lessons from Europe. Lodge et al., Fisheries, 2000.
Link to article - Biodiversity in fresh waters – an issue of species preservation or system functioning? Moss, Environmental Conservation, 2000.
Link to article - An Overview of Freshwater Biodiversity: With Some Lessons from African Fishes. Stiassny, Fisheries, 1996.
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