Multifaceted biodiversity measurements reveal incongruent conservation priorities for rivers in the upper reach and lakes in the middle-lower reach of the largest river-floodplain ecosystem in China

Fish taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity and their vulnerabilities in the largest river in southeastern China

“…Environmental, social‐economical, and cultural factors should be considered when applying these systematic conservation algorithms (Delavenne et al., 2012 ; Isotti & Monacelli, 2019 ; Ma et al., 2020 ). Functional distinctiveness, phylogenetic endemism, ecological services, vegetation, and cultural preferences could be weighted as conservation features (Ainsworth et al., 2018 ; Jiang et al., 2020 ; Kosman et al., 2019 ; Ma et al., 2021 ). Given that scarce efforts have been deployed in fish conservation in the Min River, this work will help to develop systematic conservation planning in the following ways: (a) Species distribution data in this work will help with further species distribution modeling, especially for those endemic species whose distribution is hardly found in other literature; (b) the finding that existence of dams is most possibly the driving factor for patterns of biodiversity will help to select important features for prioritization; and (c) the spatial patterns of TD, FD and PD will help with the validation of the effectiveness of systematic conservation planning in practice.…”

“…Some welldeveloped algorithms including Zonation, Marxan, and commercial computation program Gurobi are conservation decision supporting tools for prioritization (Helm & Justkowiak, 2018;Moilanen, 2005;Watts et al, 2009). Although they differ in underlying algorithms, they have some attributes in common (Delavenne et al, 2012) Functional distinctiveness, phylogenetic endemism, ecological services, vegetation, and cultural preferences could be weighted as conservation features (Ainsworth et al, 2018;Jiang et al, 2020;Kosman et al, 2019;Ma et al, 2021). Given that scarce efforts have been deployed in fish conservation in the Min River, this work will help to develop systematic conservation planning in the following ways: (a)…”

Temporal variations of the multifaceted biodiversity and assembly mechanisms in lake fish assemblages

“…), and locomotion (shape, relative size of head, etc.) (Jiang et al, 2020; Villéger et al, 2017). We assumed that intraspecific variability is negligible compared with interspecific variability (McGill et al, 2006).…”

Identifying and Setting Linear Water Space Priorities in Co-Urbanized Area Based on Multiple Levels and Multiple Ecosystem Services

“…Water purification service. The Water Purification Ability Index (WPAI) of river cluster patches was constructed, and the total river area within the river cluster patches, river density and connectivity were used as composite surrogate indicators [51,56,57]. For river corridors, the proxy of the Total Nitrogen Retention (TNR) was used as a way to assess the water purification service capacity of each river corridor [40,58].…”

“…It has been increasingly recognized that multiple facets of ecological functions must be taken into account when determining the conservation priorities of ecological spaces [57]. This necessitates the coupling evaluation of multiple ecosystem services of ecological spaces.…”