The Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment: an overview of the results

By E. Balian, H. Segers, C. Lévêque, Koen Martens. Hydrobiologia, 2008

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Effects of an exotic invasive macrophyte (tropical signalgrass) on native plant community composition, species richness and functional diversity (2010, background): “5% of the total number of species (Balian et al., 2008) and have the highest extinction rates (Jenkins, 2003).”
Diversity, ecology and evolution of groundwater copepods (2009, background): “Crustaceans represent about 10% of the total number of invertebrate species known from fresh water world-wide (Balian et al., 2008).”
Alien species in fresh waters: ecological effects, interactions with other stressors, and prospects for the future (2010, background): “3 Comparison of the taxonomic composition of described animal species in fresh water (Balian et al., 2008) with that of freshwater animal species included among the world’s 100 worst invaders (Lowe, Browne & Boudjelas, 2008), and that of known alien animal species in the Laurentian Great Lakes (Ricc”
Borders of Biodiversity: Life at the Edge of the World's Large Lakes (2011, background): “There is considerable uncertainty in the conservative estimates of the global diversity of freshwater animals (Balian et al. 2008), and the numbers of invertebrate species in some of our study lakes are certainly underestimates, but these large lakes clearly support a substantial proportion and…”
Essential biodiversity variables for measuring change in global freshwater biodiversity (2017, background): “The first overview of taxa reliant on freshwater ecosystems (The Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment) was completed in 2008, covering 126,000 species in eight large zoogeographic regions (Balian et al., 2008).”
Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism (2013, background): “Although still incompletely surveyed, the current conservative estimate is that freshwater ecosystems provide suitable habitat for at least 126,000 plant and animal species (Balian et al., 2008).”
Biogeography of freshwater fishes of the Balkan Peninsula (2014, background): “5% of the global animal species richness (Balian et al., 2008), in addition to an excessive portion of the world’s most speciose and endemic taxa (e.”
Biological Diversity in Headwater Streams (2019, background): “Among freshwater animals, over 60% are insects or crustaceans [31].”
Climate Change and the Future of Freshwater Biodiversity in Europe: A Primer for Policy-Makers (2009, background): “They rarely consider the less well-known groups, among them the bacteria, actinomycetes, microfungi, nematodes, harpacticoids, ciliates, benthic algae, and the parasites that are probably much more diverse than the free-living organisms (Torsvik et al., 2002; Balian et al., 2008).”
Aquatic invasive species: challenges for the future (2015, background): “Freshwater ecosystems have greater biodiversity per surface area than marine and terrestrial ecosystems (Dudgeon et al., 2006; Balian et al., 2008).”