The intent of this case study is to outline the pivotal elements of the program of knowledge development and transfer, in the context of river -
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Authors
L.J. Baumgartner, C. Barlow, M. Mallen-Cooper, C. Boys, T. Marsden, G. Thorncraft, O. Phonekhampheng, D. Singhanouvong, W. Rice, M. Roy, L. Crase, and B. Cooper
Publication Date
6 February 2019
Publication Name
Aquaculture and Fisheries
Topics
Fish passage, Tropical rivers, Lower mekong basin, Migration, Fishway, Lao PDR
This book explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong River. The book is divided into three sections devoted in -
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Authors
M.A. Stewart and P.A. Coclanis
Publication Date
04 February 2019
Publication Name
Advances in Global Change Research
Topics
Lower Mekong Basin and Indochina, Water governance and trans-boundary water issues, Sustainability, Environmental and climate change, Coastlines and mangrove forests, Poverty alleviation, Food security
This paper reports the results of a model that tests the fisheries effects of no-take protected areas in conditions unique to indiscriminate riverine/floodplain systems. The -
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Authors
L. Hannah, C. Costello, V. Elliot, B. Owashi, S. Nam, R. Oyanedel, R. Chea, O. Vibol, C. Phen, and G. McDonald
Publication Date
1 February 2019
Publication Name
Ecological Modelling
Topics
Freshwater, Fishery Harvest, Profit, Indiscriminate, Model, Tonle Sap, Cambodia, Floodplain, Flood-pulse, Community, Freshwater Protected Area (FPA), Poverty, Protein, Climate change
This study uses cross-wavelet transform (CWT) and cross-correlation function (CCF) time-series modeling approaches to model the spatial and temporal dynamics of small mud carp species -
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Authors
B. Chan, R. Sor, P.B. Ngor, C. Baehr, and S. Lek
Publication Date
24 January 2019
Publication Name
Ecological Modelling
Topics
Tonle Sap, Flow pulse, Co-occurrence, Migration patterns, Fish synchronization, Phase relationship, Cross-wavelet transform, Cross-correlation function
This study examines the effects of seasonal changes on consumer trophic position in a food web, asking whether fishes inhabiting tropical river–floodplain ecosystems behave as seasonal omnivores, by shifting -
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Authors
B.C. McMeans, T. Kadoya, T.K. Pool, G.W. Holtgrieve, S. Lek, H. Kong, K. Winemiller, V. Elliott, N. Rooney, P. Laffaille, and K.S. McCann
Publication Date
18 January 2019
Publication Name
Ecology
Topics
aquatic, environmental variation, fishes, food webs, omnivory, stable isotopes, stomach contents, tropical river–floodplain ecosystem
This study uses hydrodynamic model simulations to show that the effects of flow regulation on downstream river-floodplain dynamics are relatively predictable along the mainstream Mekong, but -
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Authors
Y. Pokhrel, S. Shin, Z. Lin, D. Yamazaki, and J. Qi
Publication Date
10 December 2018
Publication Name
Science Reports
Topics
Dams, Mekong River, Tonle Sap River, Hydrodynamics, Floodplain, Flow regulations
Acantopsis bruinen, a new species, is described from the Mekong River basin in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos, and from the Mae Khlong and Tapi River -
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Authors
D.A. Boyd, S. Nam, T. Phanara, and L.M. Page
Publication Date
4 December 2018
Publication Name
Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters
Topics
Acantopsis bruinen, new species, Mekong River basin, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Mae Khlong, Tapi River, species key
This study investigated intra-annual variation in the landing and growth patterns of three mollusc species, i.e., Corbicula moreletiana, Pila virescens and Pila ampullacea, using one-year -
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Authors
P.B. Ngor, R. Sor, L.H. Prak, N. So, Z.S. Hogan, and S. Lek
Publication Date
23 November 2018
Publication Name
International Journal of Limnology
Topics
Tonle Sap Lake, Mollusc, Flood-pulse system, Bivalve, Catch and volume
This paper analyzed 7‐yr daily fish and water monitoring data to quantitatively assess flow seasonality and predictability in three sites located in three rivers displaying a -
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Authors
P.B. Ngor, T. Oberdorff, C. Phen, C. Baehr, G. Grenouillet, and S. Lek
Publication Date
09 November 2018
Publication Name
Ecological Society of America
Topics
flow regulation, freshwater fishes, hydropower dam, Mekong River Basin, species turnover
This is the first analysis of the ontogenetic changes in diet and habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins from the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea -
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Authors
J. Jackson‐Ricketts, R.I. Ruiz‐Cooley, C. Junchompoo, S. Thongsukdee, A. Intongkham, S. Ninwat, K. Kittiwattanawong, E.M. Hines, and D.P. Costa
Publication Date
03 November 2018
Publication Name
Marine Mammal Science
Topics
stable isotope, Carbon 13, Irrawaddy dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris, diet, feeding, ecology, mixing model, population structure