Aim Global patterns of freshwater fish species diversity and their natural and anthropogenic determinants are relatively well documented. Yet, determinants of fish dissimilarity (beta diversity) across river basins remain poorly understood. Here, we quantify taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity of freshwater fish across global river basins and identify the key environmental and historical drivers shaping these...

Functional diversity is critical to ecosystem stability and resilience to disturbances as it supports the delivery of ecosystem services on which human societies rely. However, changes in functional diversity over space and time, as well as the importance of particular marine fish species to functional space are less known. Here, we reported a temporal change in the functional diversity of marine capture fisheries from all coa...

China is the world’s largest producer of aquaculture and capture fisheries. How this country develops its aquaculture sector and whether such development can relieve pressure on wild fisheries remain a contentious issue in the past and for the future. This study aims to provide a broad assessment on the impact of aquaculture development in different periods on marine wild fisheries on the basis of aquaculture and marine wild f...