Global evidence of positive impacts of freshwater biodiversity on fishery yields.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

An often-invoked benefit of high biodiversity is the provision of ecosystem services. However, evidence for this is largely based on data from small-scale experimental studies of relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function that may have little relevance to real-world systems. Here, large-scale biodiversity datasets are used to test the relationship between the yield of inland capture fisheries and species richness from 100 countries.

Location

Inland waters of Africa, Europe and parts of Asia.

Methods

A multimodel inference approach was used to assess inland fishery yields at the country level against species richness, waterside human population, area, elevation and various climatic variables, to determine the relative importance of species richness t

SUBMITTER: Brooks EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4984834 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature