Understanding the importance of provisioning fisheries in the Great Lakes
Understanding the importance of provisioning fisheries in the great lakes Great Lakes fisheries contribute billions of dollars to the North American econ ...
Integrating Cross-scale Socio-Ecological Feedbacks in Freshwater Fisheries
Freshwater fisheries provide food, income, and recreation to millions of people. Conventional management of these systems typically relies on the imple ...
SYNERGIZE – SYNthesising Ecological Responses to deGradation In amaZonian Environments
SYNERGIZE means to “interact or cooperate with one or more other agents to produce a joint effect greater than the sum of effects achieved separatel ...
Sustaining Amazon floodplain biodiversity and fisheries under climate change
Working and learning with stakeholders to preserve Amazon River floodplain biodiversity and fisheries in the face of climate change Our new proje ...
BONDS “Balancing BiOdiversity CoNservation with Development in Amazonian WetlandS”
Funded by NSF, this project involving six countries will develop scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services for selected "whitewater" river floodplai ...
Improved knowledge of the role of the forests for food security and nutrition
Funded by CIFOR, this project will assess the sustainability of fisheries in rivers of Cameroon and potential fish-forest relationships.
Understanding the migration of Arapaima in ria lake ecosystems of the Amazon Basin
NEW PROJECT: Management of commercially important fish populations requires understanding of fish population dynamics. As such, ongoing development of man ...
New project on the impacts of floods and droughts on aquatic macrophytes, forests, and fisheries of central Amazonian river floodplains
NEW PROJECT: About 20% of the Amazon basin is seasonally inundated, and these wetlands are sites of intense biological activity with highly productive macroph ...
Impacts of dams on the integrity of Amazonian ecosystems
NEW PROJECT: Freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon are among the most biological diverse and productive in the world. Current infrastructure development (e. ...
Muskellunge population dynamics in the New River
NEW PROJECT: A project in the New River of Virginia to reassess the potential of muskellunge (Esox masquiongy) to impact the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolo ...
Land and resource use on the Amazon floodplain under evolving management systems and environmental change
NEW PROJECT: An interdisciplinary project aiming to: (i) measure historical human impacts on river-floodplains of the Amazon (ii) quantify relations among ...