About this Book

The ‘Aquatic Habitat Conservation in South America’ Symposium occurred during

the XXI Brazilian Society of Ichthyology Meeting. The proceedings were published

as a special issue in the Journal of Fish Biology (vol. 89, Number 1, June 2016). In

this special issue, authors provided an analytical overview of problems faced by the

conservation of fishes and aquatic habitats of South America. Habitat loss emerged

as the greatest concern for all South American aquatic ecosystems, with a long list

of causes related to unsustainable development models.

Based on this finding, we would like to extend this topic to other continents, different

climates, fauna and flora around the world. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive

and multidisciplinary overview of variables that influence flora and fauna distributions

and shape their ecological interactions within aquatic ecosystems