Publications by authors named "Luiz J de Queiroz"
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- Human activities like cutting down forests, climate change, and introducing new species are hurting wildlife in different ways, especially in land and water environments.
- Scientists want to understand why these impacts are different in land versus water ecosystems by looking at four main processes: how animals and plants spread, how new species form, which species survive better, and how random changes happen.
- They hope to find new ways to protect nature by looking at these processes and figuring out how human impacts create different problems in each ecosystem.
The Amazon Basin is an unquestionable biodiversity hotspot, containing the highest freshwater biodiversity on earth and facing off a recent increase in anthropogenic threats. The current knowledge on the spatial distribution of the freshwater fish species is greatly deficient in this basin, preventing a comprehensive understanding of this hyper-diverse ecosystem as a whole. Filling this gap was the priority of a transnational collaborative project, i.
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