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A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity

A modular assessment tool for managing introduced fishes according to risks of species and their populations, and impacts of management actions

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

A preliminary evaluation of the European Non-native Species in Aquaculture Risk Assessment Scheme applied to species listed on Annex IV of the EU Alien Species Regulation

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A review and meta-analysis of the environmental biology of bleak Alburnus alburnus in its native and introduced ranges, with reflections on its invasiveness

scientific article published in 2023

A review of allodiversity in Lake Naivasha, Kenya: Developing conservation actions to protect East African lakes from the negative impacts of alien species

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A risk assessment for managing non-native parasites

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Absence of a Context-General Behavioural Syndrome in a Solitary Predator

Age and growth rates of a translocated chub <i>Squalius cephalus</i> chalk-stream population with comparison to indigenous riverine populations in England

scientific article published in 2022

Age and growth rates of the critically endangered fishGarra ghorensiscan inform their conservation management

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Angler behaviors and motivations for exploiting invasive and native predatory fishes by catch-and-release: A case study on the river severn catchment, Western England

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Angling baits and invasive crayfish as important trophic subsidies for a large cyprinid fish

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Application of environmental DNA analysis to inform invasive fish eradication operations ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Assessing the ecological impacts of invasive species based on their functional responses and abundances

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Assessing the efficacy and ecology of biocontrol and biomanipulation for managing invasive pest fish

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Assessment of non-native fish dispersal from a freshwater aquaculture site

scientific article published in 2016

Behavioural syndrome in a solitary predator is independent of body size and growth rate

scientific article

Between-lake variation in the trophic ecology of an invasive crayfish

scientific article

COVID-19 and biodiversity: The paradox of cleaner rivers and elevated extinction risk to iconic fish species

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Can accidental introductions of non-native species be prevented by fish stocking audits?

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Changes in pathways and vectors of biological invasions in Northwest Europe

Characterizing the trophic niches of stocked and resident cyprinid fishes: consistency in partitioning over time, space and body sizes

scientific article published on 26 June 2016

Climatic and geographic variation as a driver of phenotypic divergence in reproductive characters and body sizes of invasive Gambusia holbrooki

scientific article published on 02 April 2022

Comparative angler catch rates of native versus alien piscivorous fish in an invaded river fishery

scientific article

Comparative functional responses of native and high-impacting invasive fishes: impact predictions for native prey populations

scientific article

Comparative trophic impacts of two globally invasive cyprinid fishes reveal species-specific invasion consequences for a threatened native fish

scientific article

Consistent patterns of trophic niche specialization in host populations infected with a non-native copepod parasite.

scientific article published on 8 March 2017

Contemporary perspectives on the ecological impacts of invasive freshwater fishes

scientific article published in 2022

Contrasting life history traits of invasive topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) in adjacent ponds in England

scientific article published in 2008

Current knowledge on non-native freshwater fish introductions

scholarly article by R. E. Gozlan et al published March 2010 in Journal of Fish Biology

Density-dependence and environmental variability have stage-specific influences on European grayling growth

scientific article published in May 2022

Density‐dependent trophic consequences of invasive mrigal carp on native mud carp in Chinese fresh waters

scientific article published on 24 May 2024

Determining the effects of species, environmental conditions and tracking method on the detection efficiency of portable PIT telemetry

scientific article published in 2010

Determining the strength of exploitative competition from an introduced fish: roles of density, biomass and body size

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Diet of invasive pikeperch<i>Sander lucioperca</i>: developing non-destructive tissue sampling for stable isotope analysis with comparisons to stomach contents analysis

scientific article published in 2018

Dietary contributions of the alien zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha in British freshwater fish suggest low biological resistance to their invasion

scientific article published in 2022

Dietary niche constriction when invaders meet natives: evidence from freshwater decapods

scientific article

Dispersal strategies of juvenile pike ( Esox lucius L.): Influences and consequences for body size, somatic growth and trophic position

scientific article published in 2019

Divergence in the trophic niche of sympatric freshwater invaders

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Do lower feeding rates result in reduced growth of a cyprinid fish infected with the Asian tapeworm?

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Do non-native pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus affect the growth, diet and trophic niche breadth of native brown trout Salmo trutta?

Do trophic subsidies affect the outcome of introductions of a non-native freshwater fish?

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Does sand content in spawning substrate result in early larval emergence? Evidence from a lithophilic cyprinid fish

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Dominance, reproductive behaviours and female mate choice in sterilised versus non-sterilised invasive male crayfish

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Ecological enhancement techniques to improve habitat heterogeneity on coastal defence structures

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Ecology of European BarbelBarbus Barbus: Implications for River, Fishery, and Conservation Management

article by J. Robert Britton & J. Pegg published October 2011 in Reviews in Fisheries Science

Effective monitoring of freshwater fish

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Effects of climate and land-use changes on fish catches across lakes at a global scale

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Effects of inter- and intra-specific competition on the growth rates of juvenile European barbel Barbus barbus used in the stock enhancement of UK fisheries

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Eff icacy of angler catch data as a population and conservation monitoring tool for the f lagship Mahseer f ishes (Torspp.) of Southern India

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Emigration of post‐spawned twaite shad <i>Alosa fallax</i>, an anadromous and iteroparous fish, in a highly fragmented river

scientific article published on 17 March 2024

Environmental DNA as a non‐invasive sampling tool to detect the spawning distribution of European anadromous shads (<i>Alosa</i> spp.)

scientific article published in 2019

Eradication of the invasivePseudorasbora parvaresults in increased growth and production of native fishes

scientific article

European Non-native Species in Aquaculture Risk Analysis Scheme - a summary of assessment protocols and decision support tools for use of alien species in aquaculture

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Exploring invasiveness and versatility of used microhabitats of the globally invasive Gambusia holbrooki

scientific article published in May 2024

Factors influencing individual movements and behaviours of invasive European barbel Barbus barbus in a regulated river

Fish habitat suitability and community structure in the equatorial Lake Naivasha, Kenya

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FishMORPH - An agent-based model to predict salmonid growth and distribution responses under natural and low flows

scientific article

Fisheries studies should consider the effects of fish parasites

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Fishes in a changing world: learning from the past to promote sustainability of fish populations.

scientific article published in March 2018

Fitness consequences of individual specialisation in resource use and trophic morphology in European eels

scientific article published in April 2011

From introduction to fishery dominance: the initial impacts of the invasive carp Cyprinus carpio in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, 1999 to 2006

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Genetic and morphological analyses reveal a complex biogeographic pattern in the endemic barbel populations of the southern Italian peninsula

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Genetic and phenotypic displacement of an endemic Barbus complex by invasive European barbel Barbus barbus in central Italy

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Geo-politics and freshwater fish introductions: How the Cold War shaped Europe's fish allodiversity

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Global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic by recreational anglers: considerations for developing more resilient and sustainable fisheries

scientific article published on 30 May 2023

Gordon H. Copp: An obituary

scientific article published on 8 February 2024

Head morphology and piscivory of European eels,Anguilla anguilla, predict their probability of infection by the invasive parasitic nematodeAnguillicoloides crassus

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High variability in stable isotope diet-tissue discrimination factors of two omnivorous freshwater fishes in controlled ex situ conditions

scientific article

Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity and human health on a Mediterranean island

scientific article

Human induced stepping-stone colonisation of an admixed founder population: the spread of topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) in Europe

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Impacts of gravel jetting on the composition of fish spawning substrates: Implications for river restoration and fisheries management

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Importance of harvest-driven trait changes for invasive species management

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

Importance of small fishes and invasive crayfish in otter Lutra lutra diet in an English chalk stream

scientific article

Influence of nutrient enrichment on the growth, recruitment and trophic ecology of a highly invasive freshwater fish

scientific article published in 2020

Influence of predation on community resilience to disease.

scientific article

Influences of angler subsidies on the trophic ecology of European barbel Barbus barbus

scientific article published in 2019

Influences of population density, temperature and latitude on the growth of invasive topmouth gudgeonPseudorasbora parva

scientific article published in 2014

Integrating an individual-based model with approximate Bayesian computation to predict the invasion of a freshwater fish provides insights into dispersal and range expansion dynamics

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Interactions of warming and exposure affect susceptibility to parasite infection in a temperate fish species

scientific article

Introduced parasites in food webs: new species, shifting structures? ⬇️

scientific article published on September 17, 2012

Introduction and spread of non-native parasites with Silurus glanis L. (Teleostei: Siluridae) in UK fisheries

scientific article published in December 2011

Invader Relative Impact Potential: a new metric to understand and predict the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and future invasive alien species ⬇️

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Investigating the catch returns and growth rate of wels catfish, Silurus glanis, using mark?recapture

scientific article published in 2007

Is bigger really better? Towards improved models for testing how Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolt size affects marine survival

scientific article published in March 2018

Is the fast growth of an equatorial Micropterus salmoides population explained by high water temperature?

scientific article

Laboratory and field validation of a simple method for detecting four species of non-native freshwater fish using eDNA.

scientific article

Length-weight relationships for three fish species (Capoeta damascina, Garra rufa, and Nemacheilus insignis ) native to the Mujib Basin, Jordan

scholarly article in Journal of Applied Ichthyology, vol. 29 no. 2, January 2013

Length-weight relationships of fish species in the freshwater rift valley lakes of Kenya

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Length-weight relationships of four fish species from the upper Paraná River basin, Southeastern Brazil

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Length-weight relationships of two catfish species from the Guareí River basin, São Paulo, Brazil

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Length-weight relationships of two conservation-concern mahseers (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Tor) of the river Cauvery, Karnataka, India ⬇️

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Length?weight relationships of the invasive topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) in ten lakes in the UK

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Life history traits of an equatorial common carp Cyprinus carpio population in relation to thermal influences on invasive populations

Ligula intestinalis (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidae) in Kenya: a field investigation into host specificity and behavioural alterations

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Long-term changes in the fish assemblage of a neotropical hydroelectric reservoir

scientific article

Mahseer (Tor spp.) fishes of the world: status, challenges and opportunities for conservation

Managing non-native fish in the environment

scientific article

Mechanical male sterilisation in invasive signal crayfish <i>Pacifastacus leniusculus</i>: persistence and functionality in captive and wild conditions

scientific article published in 2022

Medium‐term environmental changes influence age‐specific survival estimates in a salmonid population

scientific article published in 2021

Microplastic in angling baits as a cryptic source of contamination in European freshwaters

scientific article published on 27 May 2021

Microplastic loads within riverine fishes and macroinvertebrates are not predictable from ecological or morphological characteristics

scientific article published in 2022

Movements and habitat use of native and invasive piscivorous fishes in a temperate and channelized lowland river

scientific article published on 16 April 2024

Non-lethal sampling for stable isotope analysis of pike Esox lucius: how mucus, scale and fin tissue compare to muscle

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Non-native fish in aquaculture and sport fishing in Brazil: economic benefits versus risks to fish diversity in the upper River Paraná Basin

scientific article

Novel trophic subsidies from recreational angling transform the trophic ecology of freshwater fishes

scientific article published in 2022

On the RIP: using Relative Impact Potential to assess the ecological impacts of invasive alien species

scientific article

Pan-continental invasion of Pseudorasbora parva: towards a better understanding of freshwater fish invasions

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Parasites of non-native freshwater fishes introduced into England and Wales suggest enemy release and parasite acquisition

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Parasitism as a Driver of Trophic Niche Specialisation

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Pathological and ecological host consequences of infection by an introduced fish parasite

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Patterns of genetic variation in native and non-native populations of European catfish Silurus glanis across Europe

scientific article published in 2023

Patterns of trophic niche divergence between invasive and native fishes in wild communities are predictable from mesocosm studies ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Population density modifies the ecological impacts of invasive species

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Population-level metrics of trophic structure based on stable isotopes and their application to invasion ecology ⬇️

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Precision of the age-length increments of three cyprinids: effects of fish number and sub-sampling strategy

scientific article published in June 2014

Predicting global invasion risks: a management tool to prevent future introductions ⬇️

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Predicting how climate change and globally invasive piscivorous fishes will interact to threaten populations of endemic fishes in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2023

Predicting the competitive interactions and trophic niche consequences of a globally invasive fish with threatened native species

scientific article

Predicting the contributions of novel marine prey resources from angling and anadromy to the diet of a freshwater apex predator

scientific article published in 2019

Predicting the ecological impacts of an alien invader: Experimental approaches reveal the trophic consequences of competition

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Predicting the factors influencing the inter- and intra-specific survival rates of riverine fishes implanted with acoustic transmitters

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Predicting the influence of river network configuration, biological traits and habitat quality interactions on riverine fish invasions

scientific article

Predicting the outcomes of management strategies for controlling invasive river fishes using individual‐based models

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Preventing and controlling nonnative species invasions to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss

scientific article published in 2023

Promoting the use of non-lethal sample collection for analysing the trophic relationships of inshore flatfish populations using stable isotope analysis

scientific article published in 2023

Quantifying imperfect detection in an invasive pest fish and the implications for conservation management

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Quantifying the growth consequences for crucian carpCarassius carassiusof competition from non-native fishes

scientific article published in 2014

Quantifying trophic interactions and niche sizes of juvenile fishes in an invaded riverine cyprinid fish community

scientific article published in 2018

Reconciling the biogeography of an invader through recent and historic genetic patterns: the case of topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva

scientific article

Reproductive ecology and diet of a persistentAmeiurus melas(Rafinesque, 1820) population in the UK

scholarly article in Journal of Applied Ichthyology, vol. 31 no. 1, December 2014

Reproductive ecology of Garra ghorensis, a critically endangered fish in Jordan

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Resolving the issues of translocated species in freshwater invasions

scientific article published on 7 June 2024

Resolving the taxonomic enigma of the iconic game fish, the hump-backed mahseer from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India.

scientific article

Review and Meta-Analysis of the Environmental Biology and Potential Invasiveness of a Poorly-Studied Cyprinid, the Ide Leuciscus idus

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Roles of discharge and temperature in recruitment of a cold-water fish, the European grayling Thymallus thymallus , near its southern range limit

scientific article published in 2018

Scale circuli patterns differentiate between hatchery‐reared and wild Rutilus rutilus during evaluation of fish stocking ⬇️

scientific article published on November 3, 2010

Sea Lamprey<i>Petromyzon marinus</i>Biology and Management Across Their Native and Invasive Ranges: Promoting Conservation by Knowledge Transfer

scientific article published in 2016

Seascape genomics reveals limited dispersal and suggests spatially varying selection among European populations of sea lamprey (<i>Petromyzon marinus</i>)

scientific article published in 2023

Shifts in the climate space of temperate cyprinid fishes due to climate change are coupled with altered body sizes and growth rates

scientific article

Socio-economic drivers of specialist anglers targeting the non-native European catfish (Silurus glanis) in the UK ⬇️

scientific article

Spatial variability in the somatic growth of pikeperch Sander lucioperca , an invasive piscivorous fish

scientific article published in 2018

Spawning strategies in cypriniform fishes in a lowland river invaded by non-indigenous European barbel Barbus barbus

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

Species composition of introduced and natural minnow populations of the Phoxinus cryptic complex in the westernmost part of the Po River Basin (north Italy)

Stable isotope signatures and trophic-step fractionation factors of fish tissues collected as non-lethal surrogates of dorsal muscle

scientific article published on August 2015

Synergistic effects of propagule pressure and trophic subsidies overcome biotic resistance to a non-native fish

Temperature-dependent feeding interactions between two invasive fishes competing through interference and exploitation

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Temporal changes in growth, condition and trophic niche in juvenile Cyprinus carpio infected with a non-native parasite.

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Testing strength of biotic resistance against an introduced fish: inter-specific competition or predation through facultative piscivory? ⬇️

scientific article

The alternate role of direct and environmental transmission in fungal infectious disease in wildlife: threats for biodiversity conservation

scientific article

The effectiveness of non-native fish removal techniques in freshwater ecosystems: a systematic review

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The introduced Micropterus salmoides in an equatorial lake: a paradoxical loser in an invasion meltdown scenario?

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The introduced species fishery of Lake Naivasha, Kenya: ecological impact vs socio-economic benefits

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Tissue-specific turnover rates of the nitrogen stable isotope as functions of time and growth in a cyprinid fish

Tracking anadromous fish over successive freshwater migrations reveals the influence of tagging effect, previous success, and abiotic factors on upstream passage over barriers

scientific article published in 2023

Tracking the invasive and euryhaline pikeperch <scp><i>Sander lucioperca</i></scp> in the lower River Thames using acoustic telemetry indicates no movements into areas of relatively high salinity

Trans-national horizon scanning for invasive non-native species: a case study in western Europe

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Transgenic fish: European concerns over GM salmon

scientific article published in June 2013

Trophic consequences for riverine cyprinid fishes of angler subsidies based on marine-derived nutrients

Trophic consequences of an invasive, small-bodied non-native fish, sunbleak Leucaspius delineatus, for native pond fishes

Trophic consequences of competitive interactions in freshwater fish: Density dependent effects and impacts of inter‐specific versus intra‐specific competition

scientific article published in 2020

Trophic consequences of introduced species: Comparative impacts of increased interspecific versus intraspecific competitive interactions ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Trophic consequences of non-native pumpkinseed Lepomis gibbosus for native pond fishes

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Trophic interactions and consequent impacts of the invasive fish Pseudorasbora parva in a native aquatic foodweb: a field investigation in the UK

Trophic interactions in a lowland river fish community invaded by European barbel Barbus barbus (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae)

Trophic relationships of translocated and indigenous chub Squalius cephalus populations with trophically analogous fishes

scientific article published on 2 November 2023

Understanding the threats posed by non-native species: public vs. conservation managers ⬇️

scientific article

Using stable isotopes to analyse extinction risks and reintroduction opportunities of native species in invaded ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article

Vicariance in a generalist fish parasite driven by climate and salinity tolerance of hosts

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Voracious invader or benign feline? A review of the environmental biology of European catfish Silurus glanis in its native and introduced ranges

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What are the consequences of infection by the introduced parasite Philometroides sanguineus for threatened crucian carp Carassius carassius populations in England?

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Winning the arms race: host-parasite shared evolutionary history reduces infection risks in fish final hosts

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

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