Leandro M. Sousa

TL;DR: To achieve true sustainability, assessments of new projects must go beyond local impacts by accounting for synergies with existing dams, as well as land cover changes and likely climatic shifts, and call for more sophisticated and holistic hydropower planning.

TL;DR: This database, including 2,406 validated freshwater native fish species, 232,936 georeferenced records, results from an extensive survey of species distribution including 590 different sources, represents a highly valuable source of information for further studies on freshwater fish biodiversity, biogeography and conservation.

TL;DR: Analysis of seasonal changes in functional trait distributions of tropical fishes in the Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon with large predictable temporal variation in hydrologic conditions and species density, demonstrates that the relative influence of community assembly mechanisms can vary seasonally in response to changing abiotic conditions and suggests that studies attempting to infer a single dominant mechanism from functional patterns may overlook important aspects of the assembly process.

TL;DR: The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed fish assemblages within rapids in the three segments impacted by the BMHC prior to hydrologic alteration, and tested for differences in assemblage structure between segments and seasons.