2024/12/01 by William Bernard Perry · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Fish Biology and Ecology Studies #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/jfb.16018
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When you picture habitat destruction in the Amazon, it is more than likely that you think of scenes of deforestation, agricultural expansion and illegal logging, with statistics such as 'a football pitch of forest being lost every minute' (BBC, 2019) springing to mind.While these scenes are both devastating and true, the Amazon is more than just a rainforest, it is also the world's largest drainage basin.It is twice the size of the next largest river basin, Congo, and drains approximately 20% of all Earth's freshwater runoff (Murtoff, 2024).This is not to say that deforestation does not have a profound effect on aquatic diversity, quite the opposite, with one study finding that protecting 13% of Amazon forest in a 18,000 km 2 study area maintained just 60% of fish diversity (Arantes et al., 2018).However, waterways themselves are