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

By R. Abell, M. Thieme, C. Revenga, M. Bryer, M. Kottelat, N. Bogutskaya, B. Coad, N. Mandrak, S. C. Balderas, W. Bussing and 18 more. 2008

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America. (2016, background): “Finally, the Titicaca Lake basin in the high elevation plains (Altiplano) of Bolivia, Chile and Peru is the smallest (188 000 km2) and least diverse major basin of South America (FEOW 337).”
The changing course of the Amazon River in the Neogene: center stage for Neotropical diversification (2018, neutral): “Abell et al ., 2008; Dagosta, de Pinna, 2017; Tedesco et al ., 2017).”
Engineer pioneer plants respond to and affect geomorphic constraints similarly along water-terrestrial interfaces world-wide (2015, neutral): “(a): River abundance by ecoregion defined from low (light blue) to high (dark 820 blue) (Abell et al., 2008), photo: J. Steiger; (b): salt marshes distribution (UNEP 821 WCMC, 2013), photo: T. Balke; (c): mangroves distribution (Giri et al., 2011), photo: 822 T. Balke; (d): coastal dunes…”
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability (2011, background): “Freshwater ecoregions are areas with similar ecological characteristics and are often defined relative to major hydrologic units (20).”
Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia (2008, background): “In some instances, the hydrographic zones utilized in this paper subsume two or more of the freshwater ecoregions recently proposed by Abell et al. (2008).”
Global biogeographical regions of freshwater fish species (2019, background): “…scales (e.g. Oikonomou, Leprieur, & Leonardos, 2014; Unmack, 2001), and studies conducted at the global scale also focussed on subregional provinces (ecoregions) based on a com‐ bination of data and expert decisions (Abell et al., 2008; Lévêque, Oberdorff, Paugy, Stiassny, & Tedesco, 2008).”
An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales (2017, background): “As a step towards addressing this issue, Reidy Liermann et al (2012) measured the length of the longest undammed stretch of the five largest rivers in each ‘freshwater ecoregion’ (as defined by Abell et al 2008) to derive the percentage of freeflowing rivers.”
Europe's freshwater biodiversity under climate change: distribution shifts and conservation needs (2014, background): “Following Araujo et al. (2011), we disentangled our result to different spatial levels: here, major river basins, freshwater ecoregions (Abell et al., 2008; obtained from www.feow.org) and countries.”
Testing the effect of palaeodrainages versus habitat stability on genetic divergence in riverine systems: study of a Neotropical fish of the Brazilian coastal Atlantic Forest (2015, background): “…as key in structuring patterns of genetic variation The role of palaeodrainages in structuring the diversity of fishes has traditionally been inferred based on patterns of biodiversity, and in particular, on faunal boundaries (Weitzman et al., 1988; Hubert & Renno, 2006; Abell et al., 2008).”