Biodiversity changes in the lakes of the Central Yangtze

Impacts of ecological restoration and human activities on habitat of overwintering migratory birds in the wetland of Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, China

“…The management of wetland habitats to restore favorable characteristics can benefit habitats of diverse waterfowl species (Erwin and Beck 2007;O'Neal et al 2008;Ma et al 2010). Fang et al (2006) also showed that the RFL project improved biodiversity in the Poyang Lake wetland, and that the populations of some overwintering migratory birds increased. The primary objective of the RFL project was to regulate floods, and it focused on hydrological restoration measures such as removing dikes that also increased the area of wetlands and improved the habitat quality for migratory birds.…”

Toward an ecological understanding of a flood-pulse system lake in a tropical ecosystem: Food web structure and ecosystem health

“…There is ample evidence that freshwater ecosystems globally suffer from overexploitation, environmental pollution, biodiversity decrease and habitat loss and/or degradation (De Kerckhove et al, 2015;Fang et al, 2006). Natural resource management and aquatic ecosystem assessment currently challenge both scientific communities and environmental managers.…”

Predicting fish species richness and assemblages with climatic, geographic and morphometric factors: A broad-scale study in Chinese lakes

“…There are thousands of lakes distributed across the mainland with significantly different natural environments, climatic factors and fish assemblages (Wang and Dou, 1998). Due to the dense population and high-speed development of economy, fish resources and biodiversity in lakes faced a series of unprecedented threats (Cui and Li, 2005;Fang et al, 2006). Over the last several decades, on-going efforts have been studying fish and fisheries in Chinese lakes.…”