Conservation status of imperiled north American freshwater and diadromous fishes

By H. L. Jelks, S. Walsh, N. Burkhead, S. Contreras-Balderas, E. Díaz-Pardo, D. Hendrickson, J. Lyons, N. Mandrak, F. McCormick, J. Nelson and 6 more. 2008

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010 (2012, background): “Comparatively, the freshwater fish diversity of North America is less than those of Africa (about 2945 species), Asia (3533), and South America (4035), but higher than those of Europe (330), Russia (206), and Oceania (260) (Lévêque et al. 2008).”
The fall of Native Fishes and the rise of Non-native Fishes in the Great Lakes Basin (2010, background): “Only 17 species, including seven subspecies, were assigned a conservation status by the American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (Table 1; Jelks et al., 2008).”
Conservation Status of Freshwater Gastropods of Canada and the United States (2013, methodology): “High imperilment rates among freshwater groups have been repeatedly linked to habitat loss and destruction and introduction of nonindigenous species (Abell 2002; Heinz Center Report 2002; Taylor et al. 2007; Jelks et al. 2008; Lysne et al. 2008; Downing et al. 2010).”
Climate Change Effects on North American Inland Fish Populations and Assemblages (2016, background): “Many of these fishes, particularly cyprinids, ictalurids, and percids, are imperiled (Jelks et al. 2008).”
A comprehensive and comparative evaluation of primers for metabarcoding eDNA from fish (2020, background): “…proportion of the world's fish species is rapidly disappearing due to a myriad of factors including habitat disruption, over exploitation, climate change, pollution, infectious diseases and foreign species invasion (Jelks et al., 2008; Jeppesen et al., 2010; Jones et al., 2004; Reid et al., 2019).”
Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges (2009, background): “…a third to half of the species in some areas are either endangered or extinct (Sodhi et al., 2004, 2008; Xenopoulos et al., 2005; Kottelat and Freyhof, 2007; Jelks et al., 2008), but it is not known whether freshwater invertebrates have been similarly impacted.”
Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems (2013, background): “Although several forms of rarity have been defined with respect to the trajectories by which species become extinct [2,3], rare species are all seen as highly vulnerable to overexploitation [4], habitat loss [5], competitive interactions with exotic species [6], and climate change [7].”
Stream Fragmentation Thresholds for a Reproductive Guild of Great Plains Fishes (2011, background): “Distribution of North American Great Plains stream fragments included in analyses.”
A strategy to rehabilitate fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin, south-eastern Australia (2012, background): “…comprise <0.01% of the Earth’s water, yet freshwater fish comprise around 40% of the world’s fish fauna (Dudgeon et al. 2006, Nelson 2006, Jelks et al. 2008), with 30 to 60% of species considered threatened in many regional assessments (Smith & Darwall 2006, Jelks et al. 2008, Garcia et al. 2010).”
Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future challenges (2010, background): “M of the freshwater species in a taxonomic group to be extinct or imperiled (Master et al. 2000, Kottelat and Freyhof 2007, Jelks et al. 2008).”
Synergistic patterns of threat and the challenges facing global anguillid eel conservation (2015, background): “…fresh water, migrating to the upper limits of tidal flowwhich in the old, flat continents occupied by A. anguilla and A. rostrata represents exclusively freshwater but for A. japonica can be either fresh or brackishwater asmountains and the ocean stand adjacent to one another (Kaifu et al., 2010).”
State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes. (2011, background): “High rates of imperilment for North American freshwater fishes have been recently corroborated by an American Fisheries Society assessment (39% imperiled: 230 vulnerable, 190 threatened, 280 endangered, and 61 extinct or extirpated) (130).”