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Stepping Stone Wetlands, Last Sanctuaries for European Mudminnow: How Can the Human Impact, Climate Change, and Non-Native Species Drive a Fish to the Edge of Extinction?

doi: 10.3390/su142013493
Throughout their history humans “tamed” not only the Danube River basin land, but also the river and its associated wetlands, drastically influencing their characteristic habitats, associations, communities, and species. One of these flagship endemic fish species in this respect is the European mudminnow (Umbra krameri Walbaum, 1792), influenced by Danube Basin geography, history, politics, and ecology. A study about this European community concern species in the context of long term human impact on its specific habitats, with potential synergic negative effects of climate change, was treated as highly needed, in an international researchers group initiative to support the efforts to provide hope for preserving this fish species and its ecosystems, and brought it back from the brink of extinction. All the characteristic inventoried wetlands which were or some of them still are natural, semi-natural, or accidental anthropogenic habitats, reveal an accentuated diminishing trend of this species areal continuity; fragmentation being the force which skewed it drastically untill now, and inducing diminishing the specific habitats quantitative and qualitative characteristics in the Danube Basin where these fish fight for survival. The main categories of human activities which impacted the climate changes in the context of this species’ habitats are: water regulation, pollution, dredging, draining, and introduction of non-native species. Overall, the diverse human impact in a climate changes in the context of this species’ habitats, Umbra krameri wetlands, creates serious perspectives on negatively influencing this at a very high scale and level. All the inventoried wetlands where Umbra krameri still survive can be considered an ecologically managed as a refuge and stepping stone wetlands, especially in the increasing climate change trend situation. Supplementary inventory studies in the field should be done for the identification of some may be unknown Umbra krameri habitats and populations.
- University of Niš Serbia
- University of Prešov Slovakia
- University of Prešov Slovakia
- University of Rijeka, Faculty of Physics Croatia
- University of Split Croatia
TJ807-830, drought, endemic fish, TD194-195, risk management, 333, Renewable energy sources, GE1-350, drought; habitat degradation; refugees; endemic fish; isolation; risk management, Environmental effects of industries and plants, habitat degradation, refugees, GE Environmental Sciences / környezettudomány, Environmental sciences, QC980-QC999 Climatology and climate change / klimatológia és éghajlatváltozás, Q1 Science (General) / természettudomány általában, QH540 Ecology / ökológia, isolation
TJ807-830, drought, endemic fish, TD194-195, risk management, 333, Renewable energy sources, GE1-350, drought; habitat degradation; refugees; endemic fish; isolation; risk management, Environmental effects of industries and plants, habitat degradation, refugees, GE Environmental Sciences / környezettudomány, Environmental sciences, QC980-QC999 Climatology and climate change / klimatológia és éghajlatváltozás, Q1 Science (General) / természettudomány általában, QH540 Ecology / ökológia, isolation
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