Ji‐Hyung Park, Omme K. Nayna, Most Shirina Begum, Chea Eliyan et al.
Abstract. Human activities are drastically altering water and material flows in river systems across Asia. These anthropogenic perturbations have rarely been linked to the carbon (C) fluxes of Asian rivers that may account for up to 40–50 % of the global fluxes. This review aims to provide a concept...
M. Abdul Wahab, M.E. Äzim, M. H. H. Ali, M.C.M. Beveridge et al.
The project evaluated the effect of installing scrap bamboo (‘kanchi’) as a substrate for periphyton on growth and production of the indigenous major carp calbaush, Labeo calbasu (Hamilton). The impacts of fish grazing on the periphyton community were also assessed. Six ponds were used, three of whi...
Meagan Harper, Hebah Mejbel, Dylan Longert, Robin Abell et al.
Abstract Freshwater biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate. Freshwater conservationists and environmental managers have enough evidence to demonstrate that action must not be delayed but have insufficient evidence to identify those actions that will be most effective in reversing the cur...
Kevin Van Sundert, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Siddharth Bharath, Yvonne M. Buckley et al.
Droughts can strongly affect grassland productivity and biodiversity, but responses differ widely. Nutrient availability may be a critical factor explaining this variation, but is often ignored in analyses of drought responses. Here, we used a standardized nutrient addition experiment covering 10 Eu...
Taofeek O. Muraina, Chong Xu, Qiang Yu, Yadong Yang et al.
Abstract Biodiversity can stabilise productivity through different mechanisms, such as asynchronous species responses to environmental variability and species stability. Global changes, like intensified drought, could negatively affect species richness, species asynchrony and species stability, but ...
Jinlong Li, Xiaoping Chen, Karl J. Niklas, Jun Sun et al.
Abstract The whole‐plant economics spectrum (PES) refers to the trade‐offs among the many plant functional traits that are commonly used as indicators of major adaptive strategies, thereby providing insights into plant distributions, ecosystem processes and evolution. However, there are few studies ...
Jüergen Kreyling, Kerstin Grant, Verena Hammerl, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
Climate change affects all seasons, but warming is more pronounced in winter than summer at mid- and high latitudes. Winter warming can have profound ecological effects, which are rarely compared to the effects of summer warming, and causal explanations are not well established. We compared mild abo...
J. P. Salini, David A. Milton, Mohammad Jalilur Rahman, M.G. Hussain
Matthew J. Witt, Bruno Baert, Annette C. Broderick, Ángela Formia et al.
For many marine megavertebrate species it is challenging to derive population estimates and knowledge on habitat use needed to inform conservation planning. For marine turtles, the logistics required to undertake comprehensive ground-based censuses, across wide spatial and temporal scales, are often...
Toby H. Galligan, John W. Mallord, Vibhu Prakash, Krishna Prasad Bhusal et al.
Summary The catastrophic declines of three species of ‘Critically Endangered’ Gyps vultures in South Asia were caused by unintentional poisoning by the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac. Despite a ban on its veterinary use in 2006 (India, Nepal, Pakistan) and 2010 (Bangladesh),...
Jianping Tao, Juan Zuo, Ze He, Yu‐Ping Wang et al.
Abstract Soil pH varies by several units among ecosystems. While soil pH is known to be a key driver of plant species composition, we still have a poor understanding of how it affects carbon cycling processes. For instance, soil pH, or its associated chemistry in terms of base cations and organic ac...
Ramūnas Žydelis, Bryan P. Wallace, Eric Gilman, Timothy B. Werner
Many populations of marine megafauna, including seabirds, sea turtles, marine mammals, and elasmobranchs, have declined in recent decades due largely to anthropogenic mortality. To successfully conserve these long-lived animals, efforts must be prioritized according to feasibility and the degree to ...
M.E. Äzim, M. Abdul Wahab, Anne A. van Dam, M.C.M. Beveridge et al.
The effects of four rates of application of fertilizer, with cow manure (3000 kg ha1), urea (100 (kg ha1) and triple super phosphate (TSP) (100 kg ha1) (treatment F)), treatment F 0.5 (treatment 0.5F), treatment F 1.5 (treatment 1.5F) and treatment F 2 (treatment 2F), on periphyton, plankton and wat...
Paul Brown, K. P. Sivakumaran, Daniel Stoessel, Annie Giles
The present study quantitatively describes a significant stock of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.), an exotic pest species, in a temperate riverine floodplain wetland. Intensity and duration of flooding influenced relative abundance, distribution and recruitment. Average growth (mm) in length was described...
Md. Habibur Rahman, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Bishwajit Roy, Most. Jannatul Fardusi