Policy-based monitoring programmes often fail to yield the information required to assess and improve policies and plans. A dominant cause of this problem is the ‘one-size-fits-all’ (OSFA) trap—a...

Understanding lifetime space use by pelagic animals is pivotal for ecology and fisheries management, but electronic tags are costly, labour-intensive and rarely able to capture juvenile movement. ...

Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, migrate through multiple habitat types, each having the potential to impact differently upon migration success. The inshore marine coastal zone is arguably disproporti...

Acoustic telemetry has become an essential tool for studying activity patterns of animals in aquatic environments. Activity is typically recorded using transmitters with integrated sensors or dens...

Hydraulic engineering alters freshwater fish swimming performance by affecting fish physiology; however, the mechanistic links between water flow-induced bacterial shift and locomotor impairment r...

Our understanding of speciation processes is constantly changing. Two important concepts that have influenced thinking over the long term are the isolation and the genic views of speciation. Howeve...

Despite their dynamic and resilient nature, river systems are degrading worldwide, with gravel extraction a key commercial activity that significantly threatens their integrity and natural function...

Lake whitefish are a cold-water species that holds cultural and economic importance throughout the Great Lakes region. Anthropogenic stressors over the last 60 years (e.g., invasive species, habitat...

Predicting land-use and land-management effects on stream and river biota is an important aspect of land-water management, yet there are no collations of what methods are available to carry out those...

Atlantic salmon populations face a number of significant, human-driven threats such as overfishing and thermal stress from anthropogenically-accelerated climate change. A considerable body of...

While they are important, local or catchment-level conservation efforts are by themselves unlikely to bend the curve of dramatic global-scale biodiversity loss in rivers, lakes, and freshwater...

This paper explores major academic debates that address why, as our scientific understanding of climate change increases, controversies about its causes and responses multiply. To this end, this...