New Trends in Freshwater Fishes
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2022) | Viewed by 14338
Special Issue Editor
Interests: freshwater ecology; fish communities; fish biology; biomonitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue will focus on the new perspectives regarding ichthyological research in freshwater environments. At these times, biogeographic distribution of species is changing due to the climate crisis, and this topic is also related to the alien species spreading, which could be favored by the related global changes. The detection of variations in fish communities and in species distribution areas are of pivotal importance to better understand the effects of said global changes. In this context, a great boost has been given also to genetic research, particularly regarding some techniques such as environmental DNA, which could be helpful to check the presence of the most elusive species, especially those that require the application of conservation policies. Finally, particular attention will be given to the freshwater fish fauna as a tool to detect the presence of pollutants, such as microplastics, heavy metals, rare earth elements, antibiotics, and others in the freshwater trophic webs.
Dr. Elisabetta Pizzul
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- global change
- fish
- environmental DNA
- pollutants
- trophic web
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