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Christian Lévêque
Researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 63
Citations - 8972
Christian Lévêque is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Synaptic vesicle. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 56 publications receiving 7777 citations.
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Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges
David Dudgeon,Angela Arthington,Mark O. Gessner,Zen'ichiro Kawabata,Duncan Knowler,Christian Lévêque,Robert J. Naiman,Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard,Doris Soto,Melanie L. J. Stiassny,Caroline A Sullivan +10 more
TL;DR: This article explores the special features of freshwater habitats and the biodiversity they support that makes them especially vulnerable to human activities and advocates continuing attempts to check species loss but urges adoption of a compromise position of management for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem functioning and resilience, and human livelihoods.
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Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in freshwater
TL;DR: An exceptionally high faunal diversity occurs in ancient lakes, where one of the most noteworthy features is the existence of radiations of species that apparently result from intra-lacustrine speciation.
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The Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment: an overview of the results
TL;DR: The diversity and distribution of vertebrates, insects, crustaceans, molluscs and a suite of minor phyla is compared and commented upon and it is shown that data are deficient for many other groups.
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Humans transforming the global water system
Charles J. Vörösmarty,Dennis P. Lettenmaier,Christian Lévêque,Michel Meybeck,Claudia Pahl-Wostl,Joseph Alcamo,W. Cosgrove,Hartmut Grassl,Holger Hoff,Pavel Kabat,F.P. Lansigan,Richard Lawford,Robert J. Naiman +12 more
TL;DR: A broad array of other anthropogenic factors, such as land cover change, engineering of river channels, irrigation and other consumptive losses, aquatic habitat disappearance, and pollution, also influences the water system in direct and important ways.
Book
Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation: The Freshwater Fish of Tropical Africa
TL;DR: This book discusses the diversity and variability of freshwater ecosystems in tropical Africa, the role of fish biodiversity, and the threats to fish biodiversity.