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Paulo Petry
Researcher at The Nature Conservancy
Publications - 33
Citations - 5665
Paulo Petry is an academic researcher from The Nature Conservancy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Amazon rainforest & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 32 publications receiving 4335 citations. Previous affiliations of Paulo Petry include Harvard University & Oregon State University.
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Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation
Robin Abell,Michele Thieme,Carmen Revenga,Mark Bryer,Maurice Kottelat,N. G. Bogutskaya,Brian Coad,Nicholas E. Mandrak,Salvador Contreras Balderas,William A. Bussing,Melanie L. J. Stiassny,Paul H. Skelton,Gerald R. Allen,Peter J. Unmack,A. M. Naseka,Rebecca Ng,Nikolai Sindorf,James C. Robertson,Eric Armijo,Jonathan V. Higgins,Thomas J. Heibel,Eric Wikramanayake,David E. Olson,Hugo Luis López,Roberto E. Reis,John G. Lundberg,Mark H. Sabaj Pérez,Paulo Petry,Paulo Petry +28 more
TL;DR: Preliminary data for fish species compiled by ecoregion reveal some previously unrecognized areas of high biodiversity, highlighting the benefit of looking at the world's freshwaters through a new framework.
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Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers
Günther Grill,Bernhard Lehner,Michele Thieme,B. Geenen,David Tickner,F. Antonelli,S. Babu,Pasquale Borrelli,L. Cheng,H. Crochetiere,H. Ehalt Macedo,R. Filgueiras,M. Goichot,Jonathan V. Higgins,Zeb S. Hogan,B. Lip,Michael E. McClain,J. Meng,Mark Mulligan,Christer Nilsson,Christer Nilsson,Julian D. Olden,Jeffrey J. Opperman,Paulo Petry,Paulo Petry,C. Reidy Liermann,Leonardo Sáenz,Leonardo Sáenz,S. Salinas-Rodriguez,P. Schelle,Rafael Schmitt,J. Snider,Florence Tan,Klement Tockner,Klement Tockner,Paula Hanna Valdujo,A. van Soesbergen,Christiane Zarfl +37 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive assessment of the world’s rivers and their connectivity shows that only 37 per cent of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres remain free-flowing over their entire length.
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Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong
Kirk O. Winemiller,Peter B. McIntyre,Leandro Castello,Etienne Fluet-Chouinard,Tommaso Giarrizzo,S Nam,Ian G. Baird,William Darwall,Nathan K. Lujan,Ian Harrison,Melanie L. J. Stiassny,Renato A. M. Silvano,Daniel B. Fitzgerald,Fernando Mayer Pelicice,Angelo Antonio Agostinho,Luiz Carlos Gomes,James S. Albert,Eric Baran,Miguel Petrere,Christiane Zarfl,Mark Mulligan,John P. Sullivan,Caroline C. Arantes,Leandro M. Sousa,Aaron A. Koning,David J. Hoeinghaus,Mark H. Sabaj,John G. Lundberg,Jonathan W. Armbruster,Michele Thieme,Paulo Petry,Jansen Zuanon,G. Torrente Vilara,Jos Snoeks,C Ou,W Rainboth,Carla Simone Pavanelli,Alberto Akama,A. van Soesbergen,Leonardo Sáenz +39 more
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.
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Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America.
Roberto E. Reis,James S. Albert,F. Di Dario,Michael Maia Mincarone,Paulo Petry,Luiz A. Rocha +5 more
TL;DR: The figures suggest that the conservation status of South American freshwater fish faunas is better than in most other regions of the world, but the marine fishes are as threatened as elsewhere.
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The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems
Leandro Castello,David G. McGrath,Laura L. Hess,Michael T. Coe,Paul Lefebvre,Paulo Petry,Marcia N. Macedo,Vivian F. Renó,Caroline C. Arantes +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a river catchment-based conservation framework for the whole basin that protects both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems is proposed, which is possible by developing a watershed catchment based conservation framework.