Global freshwater biodiversity

Freshwater Biodiversity | WWF - Panda.org

Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1% of Earth's surface, yet are home to at least 10% of Earth's species. Freshwater habitats are incredibly diverse, ...

Global freshwater biodiversity research

The Research Group emphasizes novel approaches in spatial freshwater biodiversity science, to gain a more detailed overview in the distribution of freshwater ...

The RACE for freshwater biodiversity: Essential actions to create the ...

Beyond the intrinsic environmental value of freshwater flora and fauna, freshwater habitats are essential for human life, livelihoods, cultures, ...

Freshwater Biodiversity Data Portal - BioFresh - the network for ...

A collaborative global freshwater biodiversity data hub · Publishing your data on freshwater biodiversity · Searching datasets, species and occurrences · The GBIF ...

Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss

2015 . Integrated nutrient management (INM) for sustaining crop productivity and reducing environmental impact: A review . Science of The Total Environment 512 ...

Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation ...

Over 10 000 fish species live in fresh water (Lundberg et al., 2000); approxi- mately 40% of global fish diversity and one quarter of global vertebrate ...

Bending the Curve of Global Freshwater Biodiversity Loss - USGS.gov

Since 1970, 83% of freshwater species and 30% of freshwater ecosystems have been lost. This poses a threat to the billions of people around the ...

Standing Up for Freshwater Biodiversity - The Revelator

Globally at least one-third of freshwater species are threatened with extinction, and they're disappearing twice as fast as species in the ocean ...

Freshwater | Initiatives | WWF - World Wildlife Fund

WWF partners with governments, businesses, international financial institutions, and communities to ensure healthy freshwater systems exist to conserve ...

Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas - IGB Berlin

Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas. The Atlas of Freshwater Biodiversity is a geographic visualisation tool which enables better, evidenced-based decision- ...

Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation ...

Freshwater biodiversity is the over-riding conservation priority during the International Decade for Action - 'Water for Life' - 2005 to 2015.

Freshwater species | IUCN

IUCN is leading the assessment of freshwater species (including crabs, crayfishes and shrimps, fishes, molluscs, dragonflies and damselflies, and plants)

Editorial: Freshwater biodiversity crisis: Multidisciplinary approaches ...

Freshwater ecosystem services are threatened by climatic anomalies which drive diferences in fisheries recruitment and persistence. Community integrated ...

People need freshwater biodiversity - Lynch - 2023 - WIREs Water

Globally, over a third of inland wetlands have experienced declines from 1970 to 2015, a rate three times that of forest decline (Convention on ...

FW BON – Freshwater Biodiversity Observation Network - GEO BON

It will enable the global scientific community to describe the relationships between biodiversity, organism abundance, system productivity, and ecosystem ...

FRESHWATER BIODIVERSITY – A HIDDEN RESOURCE UNDER ...

Freshwater habitats cover less than 1% of the world's surface, yet they provide a home for over 25% of all described vertebrates, more than 126,000 known animal ...

Bending the curve of freshwater biodiversity loss

Research shows that almost 90% of global wetlands have been lost since 1700. The 3,741 monitored populations, representing 944 species of ...

Freshwater biodiversity conservation: recent progress and future ...

Globally, perhaps ∼10,000 to 20,000 freshwater species already are extinct or imperiled as a result of human activities (Strayer 2006, IUCN 2007) ...

Freshwater biodiversity at different habitats: Research hotspots with ...

Here, we conducted a comparative study of freshwater biodiversity in different ecosystem types at the global scale to describe the current state of knowledge, ...

Global freshwater biodiversity, biogeography & conservation ...

Research Group led by Sami Domisch. Global biodiversity is declining across ecosystems, and freshwater organisms and habitats are among the most threatened.