Special Issue "Impacts of Human Activities and Climate Change on Freshwater Fish, Volume II"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2023 | Viewed by 4925
Special Issue Editors

Interests: fish ecology; lacustrine food webs; invasive fish species; climate change; freshwater fish conservation; fisheries management
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2. Limnology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Ecosystem Research and Implementation, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Interests: aquatic ecology; biological structure and interactions with the nutrient dynamics and climate in lakes; lake restoration; lake re-establishment; paleoecology; ecosystem modelling
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Interests: fish trophic ecology; stable isotopes; invasive species; population genetics; conservation biology; freshwater ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fish play a key role in the food web dynamics of freshwater ecosystems as well as in the provision of services for human societies. Despite their importance, freshwater fish all around the world are under multiple pressures of anthropogenic and climatic origin, which often interact with each other. Eutrophication, chemical pollution, overfishing, water abstraction, and river morphology alteration, as well as novel emerging contaminants are only some examples of the pressures impacting freshwater fish.
In this Special Issue, we aim to collect reviews and significant case studies focusing on the impact of human activities and climatic pressure on freshwater fish at different levels of their organization (e.g., species, genus, family, assemblages) in rivers and lakes all around the world and, if available, successful solutions to counteract them. Case studies and reviews can also consider species that only partially spend their lives in freshwater, such as salmon, trout, sturgeons, and eels, but, nevertheless, need freshwater to complete their life cycle.
Dr. Pietro Volta
Prof. Dr. Erik Jeppesen
Dr. Vanessa De Santis
Dr. Mustafa Korkmaz
Guest Editors
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Planned Papers
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Title: Seasonal changes in upper thermal tolerances of freshwater Thai fishes
Authors: Sampan Tongnunui and F.W.H. Beamish
Affiliation: -
Abstract: Upper thermal tolerance (CTmax) of riverine fishes differed significantly between the two major seasons, wet and dry, for four freshwater fishes. Thermal tolerance was lowest early in the wet season (May) and highest early in the dry season (February) with low values for Danio regina, Channa gachua, Rasbora caudimaculata and M. chilopterus of 35.1±0.3, 36.1±0.2, 37.1±0.3 and 37.2±0.3 ºC and high values of 39.1±0.4, 38.7±0.4, 38.2±0.4 and 37.3±0.4 °C, respectively. Upper thermal tolerance was not appreciably above current maximum ambient temperatures in some Thai rivers. Keywords: Critical thermal maximum, Acclimation, Seasonality, Climate change