Inland navigation and land use interact to impact European freshwater biodiversity
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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.
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- Authors
- Sexton, A. N., Beisel, J.-N., Staentzel, C., Wolter, C., Tales, E., Belliard, J., Buijse, A. D., Martínez Fernández, V., Wantzen, K. M., Jähnig, S. C., Garcia de Leaniz, C., Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Haase, P., Forio, M. A. E., Archambaud, G., Fruget, J.-F., Dohet, A., Evtimova, V., Csabai, Z., Floury, M., Goethals, P., Várbiró, G., Cañedo-Argüelles, M., Larrañaga, A., Maire, A., Schäfer, R. B., Sinclair, J. S., Vannevel, R., Welti, E. A. R., & Jeliazkov, A.
- Affiliations
- Fondation Pour la Recherche Sur la Biodiversité (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (DE)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Deltares (NL)
- Université de Tours (FR)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M (DE)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LU)
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BG)
- HUN-REN Balaton Limnological Research Institute (HU)
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Laboratoire d'Hydraulique Saint-Venant (FR)
- University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
- Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sexton, Aaron N.
- ORCID
- Sexton, Aaron N.
- Beisel, Jean-Nicolas
- Staentzel, Cybill
- Wolter, Christian
- Belliard, Jérôme
- Buijse, Anthonie D.
- Wantzen, Karl M.
- Jähnig, Sonja C.
- Garcia de Leaniz, Carlos
- Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid
- Haase, Peter
- Forio, Marie Anne Eurie
- Archambaud, Gait
- Dohet, Alain
- Evtimova, Vesela
- Csabai, Zoltán
- Floury, Mathieu
- Goethals, Peter
- Larrañaga, Aitor
- Maire, Anthony
- Schäfer, Ralf B.
- Sinclair, James S.
- Vannevel, Rudy
- Welti, Ellen A. R.
- Jeliazkov, Alienor
- Venue
- Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Published
- 2024-05-21
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1098-1108
- ISSN
- 2397-334X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4398170603
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 5
- FWCI
- 7.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Universitätsbibliographie, Universität Duisburg-Essen (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversite
- EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (101036337, 871128)
- Leibniz Competition project “Freshwater Megafauna Futures”
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- inland navigation, ship traffic, freshwater biodiversity, fish assemblages, macroinvertebrates, land use, riparian degradation, channelization, taxonomic richness, rare taxa, benthic taxa, urban landscape, agricultural landscapes, waterway management, European rivers
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Europe, Fishes, Fresh Water, Invertebrates, Ships, Biodiversity, Rivers
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