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Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

BioScience · 2008 · Vol. 58(5) · pp. 403–414

Robin Abell✉Michele ThiemeCarmen RevengaMark BryerMaurice Kottelat(National University of Singapore)N.G. Bogutskaya(Russian Academy of Sciences)Brian W. Coad(Canadian Museum of Nature)Nick E. Mandrak(Fisheries and Oceans Canada)Salvador Contreras Balderas(Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León)William A. Bussing(Universidad de Costa Rica)Melanie L. J. Stiassny(Columbia University)Paul Skelton(Rhodes University)Gerald R. Allen(Western Australian Museum)Peter J. Unmack(Brigham Young University)A.M. Naseka(Russian Academy of Sciences)Rebecca NgNikolai SindorfJames RobertsonEric ArmijoJonathan HigginsThomas J. HeibelEric WikramanayakeDavid M. Olson(The Nature Conservancy)Hugo Luis LópezRoberto Esser dos Reis(Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul)John G. Lundberg(Drexel University)Mark H. Sabaj Pérez(Drexel University)Paulo Petry(Harvard University Press)

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Abstract

G rowth of the human population, rising consumption, and rapid globalization have caused widespread degradation and disruption of natural systems, especially in the freshwater realm. Freshwater ecosystems have lost a greater proportion of their species and habitat than ecosystems on land or in the oceans, and they face increasing threats from dams, water withdrawals, pollution, invasive species, and overharvesting (MEA 2005 Freshwater ecosystems and the diverse communities of species found in lakes, rivers, and wetlands may be the most endangered of all (MEA 2005).

Fish Ecology and Management Studies Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Fish Biology and Ecology StudiesEcoregionFreshwater fishBiodiversityGeographyEcologyHabitatBiogeographyBiologyFish <Actinopterygii>Fishery

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