@article{01HYHJD29N0FV40RKPBZ8VX2ZS,
  abstract     = {{Inland navigation in Europe is proposed to increase in the coming years, being promoted as a low-carbon form of transport. However, we currently lack knowledge on how this would impact biodiversity at large scales and interact with existing stressors. Here we addressed this knowledge gap by analysing fish and macroinvertebrate community time series across large European rivers comprising 19,592 observations from 4,049 sampling sites spanning the past 32 years. We found ship traffic to be associated with biodiversity declines, that is, loss of fish and macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness, diversity and trait richness. Ship traffic was also associated with increases in taxonomic evenness, which, in concert with richness decreases, was attributed to losses in rare taxa. Ship traffic was especially harmful for benthic taxa and those preferring slow flows. These effects often depended on local land use and riparian degradation. In fish, negative impacts of shipping were highest in urban and agricultural landscapes. Regarding navigation infrastructure, the negative impact of channelization on macroinvertebrates was evident only when riparian degradation was also high. Our results demonstrate the risk of increasing inland navigation on freshwater biodiversity. Integrative waterway management accounting for riparian habitats and landscape characteristics could help to mitigate these impacts.}},
  author       = {{Sexton, Aaron N. and Beisel, Jean-Nicolas and Staentzel, Cybill and Wolter, Christian and Tales, Evelyne and Belliard, Jérôme and Buijse, Anthonie D. and Martínez Fernández, Vanesa and Wantzen, Karl M. and Jähnig, Sonja C. and Garcia de Leaniz, Carlos and Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid and Haase, Peter and Forio, Marie Anne Eurie and Archambaud, Gait and Fruget, Jean-François and Dohet, Alain and Evtimova, Vesela and Csabai, Zoltán and Floury, Mathieu and Goethals, Peter and Várbiró, Gábor and Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel and Larrañaga, Aitor and Maire, Anthony and Schäfer, Ralf B. and Sinclair, James S. and Vannevel, Rudy and Welti, Ellen A. R. and Jeliazkov, Alienor}},
  issn         = {{2397-334X}},
  journal      = {{NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION}},
  keywords     = {{FISH ASSEMBLAGES,URBANIZATION,MACROINVERTEBRATES,RESUSPENSION,CONSERVATION,PRESSURES,CATCHMENT,STRESSORS,DIVERSITY,INVASIONS}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{6}},
  pages        = {{1098--1108}},
  title        = {{Inland navigation and land use interact to impact European freshwater biodiversity}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02414-8}},
  volume       = {{8}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}

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