Freshwater crabs and the biodiversity crisis: Importance, threats, status, and conservation challenges

By N. Cumberlidge, P. Ng, D. Yeo, C. Magalhães, M. R. Campos, F. Álvarez, T. Naruse, S. Daniels, L. Esser, F. Y. Attipoe and 6 more. 2009

417 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Aquatic Science

1. W. Darwall
2. S. J. Ormerod
3. Arthur Georges
4. Pedro Cardoso
5. Julian D. Olden
6. D. Dudgeon
7. S. Cooke
8. D. Milton

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. Julian D. Olden
3. G. C. Costa
4. Pedro Cardoso
5. C. Nogueira
6. T. New
7. T. Erwin
8. M. Tognelli

Citations in the corpus

• The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region (2009, background): “Habitat loss, alteration, and fragmentation are the leading causes of declines in species and populations around the world (MEA, 2005; Gallant et al., 2007; Sodhi et al., 2008; Cumberlidge et al., 2009).”
• The conservation status of the world's reptiles (2013, result): “…lower than those reported for amphibians (25%; IUCN, 2011a), dragonflies and damselflies (35%; Clausnitzer et al., 2009) and freshwater crabs (49%; Cumberlidge et al., 2009), but still exceeded those of the more charismatic or conspicuous birds and mammals (less than 1% and 15% respectively;…”
• Odonata enter the biodiversity crisis debate: The first global assessment of an insect group (2009, background): “Until now only a selection of vertebrate taxa, the reef-building corals (Carpenter et al., 2008), the freshwater crabs ( Cumberlidge et al., 2009 ) and a few plant groups (e.g.”
• Winning the biodiversity arms race among freshwater gastropods: competition and coexistence through shell variability and predator avoidance (2010, background): “Crabs as predators Five families of crabs are primarily found in tropical and sub-tropical regions with at least 1,280 species recognized and many more are likely still to be described (Cumberlidge et al., 2009).”
• Adapting the IUCN Red List criteria for invertebrates (2011, methodology): “The remaining four species per group were chosen randomly from all endemic species described in order to provide an estimate of the general patterns that would emerge if all species were evaluated in a way similar to the Sampled Red List Index approach (Clausnitzer et al., 2009; Cumberlidge et al., ”
• Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism (2013, background): “…species is unknown, but they are likely to be insufficient, as terrestrial protected areas rarely encompass the conservation of headwaters, are seldom catchment-based designs and do not consider the allocation of water downstream for biodiversity (Dudgeon et al., 2006; Darwall et al., 2009).”
• Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity (2018, background): “Although less comprehensively recorded than vertebrates, freshwater invertebrates are also faring worse than their terrestrial counterparts (Taylor et al. , 2007; Clausnitzer et al. , 2009; Cumberlidge et al. , 2009).”
• The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them (2011, background): “Many invertebrate taxa have recently been assessed, especially molluscs, butterflies, dragonflies, freshwater crabs, and corals (Clausnitzer et al., 2009; Cumberlidge et al., 2009; IUCN, 2010; Lewis and Senior, 2011).”