Overexploitation threatens the future of many large vertebrates. In the ocean, tunas and sea turtles are current conservation concerns because of this intense pressure. The status of most shark species, in contrast, remains uncertain. Using the largest data set in the Northwest Atlantic, we show rapid large declines in large coastal and oceanic shark populations. Scalloped hammerhead, white, an...

changes in fish faunal structure and diversity. Though catches of many species had declined by the 1960s due to overexploitation (Kudhongania et al., 1992), the dramatic increase in Nile perch in the 1980s in Lake Victoria was followed by a drastic decline in the populations of several indigenous species (Kaufman, 1992). Most notable has been the disappearance of over 50% of the endemic haploch...

Humanity seems to have been thrown into a ‘perfect storm’ of several huge challenges such as global warming, accelerating extinction species, the corona pandemic and uncontrollable migration streams caused by fossil fuel emissions, overexploitation natural resources, extreme weather, viruses, ethnic religious conflicts [...]

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We studied the maternally inherited chloroplast DNA polymorphism at three microsatellite loci of 157 Quercus robur trees from 38 native populations in Lithuania. found high diversity eight haplotypes Balkan lineage A (frequency 0.75) and “German” subbranch (freq. 0.12), western eastern Italian lineages C 0.05 0.06, respectively), Iberian B 0.03). The were geographically well structured (among p...

Lakes worldwide have been strongly affected by several types of human-caused alteration, including changes in water level. This also affects deep lakes, volcanic ones. Volcanic lakes the Mediterranean area are great importance for local economy, but human activities can threaten their rich biodiversity. As a European biodiversity hotspot and habitat endemic species, Lake Bracciano (Central Ital...

Transition from endorheic alluvial fan environments to well-channelized fluvial systems in natural conditions may occur in response to base-level fluctuations. However, human-induced changes in semi-arid regions can also be responsible for similar unforeseen modifications. Our results confirm that in-channel gravel mining and aquifer overexploitation over the last 50 years in the case study are...

The recent miniaturization of acoustic tracking devices has allowed fishery managers and scientists to collect spatial and temporal data for sustainable fishery management. The spatial and temporal dimensions of fish behavior (movement and/or vertical migrations) are particularly relevant for rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) because most rockfish species are long-lived and have high site fidelity, in...