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Nutritional challenges of substituting farmed animals for wild fish in human diets by Heilpern, Sebastian A, Almeida, Rafael M, Fiorella, Kathryn J, Flecker, Alexander S, Williams, Demetra, McIntyre, Peter B

“…Wild fisheries provide billions of people with a key source of multiple essential nutrients. As fisheries plateau or decline, nourishing more people will…”
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Trophic complexity alters the diversity–multifunctionality relationship in experimental grassland mesocosms by Anujan, Krishna, Heilpern, Sebastian A., Prager, Case M., Weeks, Brian C., Naeem, Shahid

“…Plant diversity has a positive influence on the number of ecosystem functions maintained simultaneously by a community, or multifunctionality. While the…”
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Process catalyzers in Amazonian rivers: large woody debris modifies ecosystem processes across freshwater habitats by Heilpern, Sebastian A., Wootton, J. Timothy

“…Understanding the role of interactions in influencing community structure and ecosystem function is a goal in ecology, and identifying biotic entities that are…”
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Translating science into actions to conserve Amazonian freshwaters by Couto, Thiago B. A., Jenkins, Clinton N., Beveridge, Claire F., Heilpern, Sebastian A., Herrera‐R, Guido A., Piland, Natalia C., Leal, Cecilia Gontijo, Zuanon, Jansen, Doria, Carolina R. C., Montoya, Mariana, Varese, Mariana, Correa, Sandra B., Goulding, Michael, Anderson, Elizabeth P.

“…Despite the importance of freshwater ecosystems to social‐ecological systems of the Amazon, conservation in the region historically has focused on terrestrial…”
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Predicting ecosystem vulnerability to biodiversity loss from community composition by Heilpern, Sebastian A., Weeks, Brian C., Naeem, Shahid

“…Ecosystems vary widely in their responses to biodiversity change, with some losing function dramatically while others are highly resilient. However,…”
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Positive correlations in species functional contributions drive the response of multifunctionality to biodiversity loss by Heilpern, Sebastian A, Anujan, Krishna, Osuri, Anand, Naeem, Shahid

“…Changes in biodiversity can severely affect ecosystem functioning, but the impacts of species loss on an ecosystem's ability to sustain multiple functions…”
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Commercially traded fish portfolios mask household utilization of biodiversity in wild food systems by Fiorella, Kathryn J, Bageant, Elizabeth R, Thilsted, Shakuntala H, Heilpern, Sebastian A

“…The global biodiversity that underpins wild food systems-including fisheries-is rapidly declining. Yet, we often have only a limited understanding of how…”
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The Andes-Amazon-Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social-ecological system sustainability by Beveridge, Claire F, Espinoza, Jhan-Carlo, Athayde, Simone, Correa, Sandra Bibiana, Couto, Thiago B A, Heilpern, Sebastian A, Jenkins, Clinton N, Piland, Natalia C, Utsunomiya, Renata, Wongchuig, Sly, Anderson, Elizabeth P

“…The Amazon River Basin's extraordinary social-ecological system is sustained by various water phases, fluxes, and stores that are interconnected across the…”
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Species trait diversity sustains multiple dietary nutrients supplied by freshwater fisheries by Heilpern, Sebastian A., Herrera‐R, Guido A., Fiorella, Kathryn J., Moya, Luis, Flecker, Alexander S., McIntyre, Peter B.

“…Species, through their traits, influence how ecosystems simultaneously sustain multiple functions. However, it is unclear how trait diversity sustains the…”
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Biodiversity underpins fisheries resilience to exploitation in the Amazon river basin by Heilpern, Sebastian A, Sethi, Suresh A, Barthem, Ronaldo B, Batista, Vandick da Silva, Doria, Carolina R C, Duponchelle, Fabrice, Vasquez, Aurea García, Goulding, Michael, Isaac, Victoria, Naeem, Shahid, Flecker, Alexander S

“…Inland fisheries feed greater than 150 million people globally, yet their status is rarely assessed due to their socio-ecological complexity and pervasive lack…”
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Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs by Almeida, Rafael M, Schmitt, Rafael JP, Castelletti, Andrea, Flecker, Alexander S, Harou, Julien J, Heilpern, Sebastian A, Kittner, Noah, Mathias Kondolf, G, Opperman, Jeff J, Shi, Qinru, Gomes, Carla P, McIntyre, Peter B

“…Hydropower continues to expand globally as the power sector transitions away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels. New dam sites vary widely in the magnitude of…”
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Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk by Heilpern, Sebastian A, DeFries, Ruth, Fiorella, Kathryn, Flecker, Alexander, Sethi, Suresh A, Uriarte, María, Naeem, Shahid

“…Although biodiversity loss adversely influences a variety of ecosystem functions, how declining wild food diversity affects nutrient supplies for people is…”
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A synthesis of the diversity of freshwater fish migrations in the Amazon basin by Herrera‐R, Guido A., Heilpern, Sebastian A., Couto, Thiago B. A., Victoria‐Lacy, Lulu, Duponchelle, Fabrice, Correa, Sandra B., Farah‐Pérez, Aldo, López‐Casas, Silvia, Cañas‐Alva, Carlos M., Doria, Carolina R. C., Anderson, Elizabeth P.

“…In the Amazon, the world's largest river basin, migrations within freshwater habitats are one of the predominant life history strategies for fishes. The flood…”
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Substitution of inland fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon by Heilpern, Sebastian A, Fiorella, Kathryn, Cañas, Carlos, Flecker, Alexander S, Moya, Luis, Naeem, Shahid, Sethi, Suresh A, Uriarte, Maria, DeFries, Ruth

“…With declining capture fisheries production, maintaining nutrient supplies largely hinges on substituting wild fish with economically comparable farmed…”
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Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion by Flecker, Alexander S, Shi, Qinru, Almeida, Rafael M, Angarita, Héctor, Gomes-Selman, Jonathan M, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Sethi, Suresh A, Thomas, Steven A, Poff, N LeRoy, Forsberg, Bruce R, Heilpern, Sebastian A, Hamilton, Stephen K, Abad, Jorge D, Anderson, Elizabeth P, Barros, Nathan, Bernal, Isabel Carolina, Bernstein, Richard, Cañas, Carlos M, Dangles, Olivier, Encalada, Andrea C, Fleischmann, Ayan S, Goulding, Michael, Higgins, Jonathan, Jézéquel, Céline, Larson, Erin I, McIntyre, Peter B, Melack, John M, Montoya, Mariana, Oberdorff, Thierry, Paiva, Rodrigo, Perez, Guillaume, Rappazzo, Brendan H, Steinschneider, Scott, Torres, Sandra, Varese, Mariana, Walter, M Todd, Wu, Xiaojian, Xue, Yexiang, Zapata-Ríos, Xavier E, Gomes, Carla P

“…Proposed hydropower dams at more than 350 sites throughout the Amazon require strategic evaluation of trade-offs between the numerous ecosystem services…”
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Integrating Food Webs and Food Security to Understand the Impact of Biodiversity Loss on Ecosystem Functions and Services by Heilpern, Sebastian A

“…Accelerating biodiversity change is a defining characteristic of the Anthropocene, and evidence accumulated from almost 30 years of research is often invoked…”
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Salinity tolerance of non-native suckermouth armoured catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) in south-eastern Mexico: implications for invasion and dispersal by Capps, Krista A., Nico, Leo G., Mendoza-Carranza, Manuel, Arévalo-Frías, Wendi, Ropicki, Andrew J., Heilpern, Sebastian A., Rodiles-Hernández, Rocío

“…ABSTRACT Salinity tolerance is one of several important physiological attributes that determine invasion success and the pattern of dispersal of introduced…”
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Salinity tolerance of non-native suckermouth armoured catfish (Loricariidae: Pterygoplichthys) in south-eastern Mexico: implications for invasion and dispersal: SALINITY TOLERANCE OF NON-NATIVE SUCKERMOUTH ARMOURED CATFISH IN MEXICO by Capps, Krista A., Nico, Leo G., Mendoza-Carranza, Manuel, Arévalo-Frías, Wendi, Ropicki, Andrew J., Heilpern, Sebastian A., Rodiles-Hernández, Rocío

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