The Silent Threat of Non-native Fish in the Amazon: ANNF Database and Review

Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria; Edwin Agudelo; Alberto Akama; Bruno Barros; Mariana Bonfim; Laís Carneiro; Sylvio Romério Briglia-Ferreira; Lucélia Nobre Carvalho; César Augusto Bonilla-Castillo; Patricia Charvet; Dayana Tamiris Brito dos Santos Catâneo; Hugmar Pains da Silva; Carmen Rosa Garcia-Dávila; Hélio Daniel Beltrão dos Anjos; Fabrice Duponchelle; Andrea Encalada; Izaias Fernandes; Alexandro Cezar Florentino; Paula Carolina Paes Guarido; Tharles Lopes de Oliveira Guedes; Luz Jimenez-Segura; Oscar Miguel Lasso-Alcalá; Marc Ruben Macean; Elineide Eugênio Marques; Raimundo Nonato G. Mendes-Júnior; Guido Miranda-Chumacero; Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes; Thiago Vinícius Trento Occhi; Leonardo Silva Pereira; William Castro-Pulido; Lariessa Soares; Raniere Garcez Costa Sousa; Gislene Torrente-Vilara; Paul André Van Damme; Jansen Zuanon; Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule

doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.646702

The Silent Threat of Non-native Fish in the Amazon: ANNF Database and Review

Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria^*
, Edwin Agudelo
, Alberto Akama
, Bruno Barros
, Mariana Bonfim
, Laís Carneiro
, Sylvio Romério Briglia-Ferreira
, Lucélia Nobre Carvalho
, César Augusto Bonilla-Castillo
, Patricia Charvet
, Dayana Tamiris Brito dos Santos Catâneo
, Hugmar Pains da Silva
, Carmen Rosa Garcia-Dávila
, Hélio Daniel Beltrão dos Anjos
, Fabrice Duponchelle
, Andrea Encalada
, Izaias Fernandes
, Alexandro Cezar Florentino
, Paula Carolina Paes Guarido
, Tharles Lopes de Oliveira Guedes

Luz Jimenez-Segura, Oscar Miguel Lasso-Alcalá, Marc Ruben Macean, Elineide Eugênio Marques, Raimundo Nonato G. Mendes-Júnior, Guido Miranda-Chumacero, Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes, Thiago Vinícius Trento Occhi, Leonardo Silva Pereira, William Castro-Pulido, Lariessa Soares, Raniere Garcez Costa Sousa, Gislene Torrente-Vilara, Paul André Van Damme, Jansen Zuanon, Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule

^*Corresponding author for this work

Universidade Federal de Rondônia
Calle 20 No 5-44
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Temple University
Federal University of Parana
Universidade Federal de Roraima
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana
Universidade Federal do Amazonas
CNRS)
College of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Federal University of Rondon̂ia
Universidade Federal do Amapá
Petrópolis
Universidade Federal do Tocantins
Federal University of Maranhão
Fundación la Salle de Ciencias Naturales
Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade
Wildlife Conservation Society
Federal University of São Paulo
Asociación FAUNAGUA

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Non-native fish (NNF) can threaten megadiverse aquatic ecosystems throughout the planet, but limited information is available for the Amazon Region. In this study we review NNF data in the Amazonian macroregion using spatiotemporal records on the occurrence and the richness of NNF from a collaborative network of 35 regional experts, establishing the Amazon NNF database (ANNF). The NNF species richness was analyzed by river basin and by country, as well as the policies for each geopolitical division for the Amazon. The analysis included six countries (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia), together comprising more than 80% of the Amazon Region. A total of 1314 NNF occurrence records were gathered. The first record of NNF in this region was in 1939 and there has been a marked increase in the last 20 years (2000–2020), during which 75% of the records were observed. The highest number of localities with NNF occurrence records was observed for Colombia, followed by Brazil and Bolivia. The NNF records include 9 orders, 17 families and 41 species. Most of the NNF species are also used in aquaculture (12 species) and in the aquarium trade (12 species). The most frequent NNF detected were Arapaima gigas, Poecilia reticulata and Oreochromis niloticus. The current data highlight that there are few documented cases on NNF in the Amazon, their negative impacts and management strategies adopted. The occurrence of NNF in the Amazon Region represents a threat to native biodiversity that has been increasing “silently” due to the difficulties of large-scale sampling and low number of NNF species reported when compared to other South American regions. The adoption of effective management measures by decision-makers is urgently needed and their enforcement needed to change this alarming trend and help protect the Amazon’s native fish diversity.

Original language	English
Article number	646702
Journal	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.646702
State	Published - 10 Jun 2021

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Keywords

biological invasions
colonization success
escapes
freshwater ecosystems
invasive alien species
propagule pressure

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Doria, C. R. D. C., Agudelo, E., Akama, A., Barros, B., Bonfim, M., Carneiro, L., Briglia-Ferreira, S. R., Nobre Carvalho, L., Bonilla-Castillo, C. A., Charvet, P., dos Santos Catâneo, D. T. B., da Silva, H. P., Garcia-Dávila, C. R., dos Anjos, H. D. B., Duponchelle, F., Encalada, A., Fernandes, I., Florentino, A. C., Guarido, P. C. P., ... Vitule, J. R. S. (2021). The Silent Threat of Non-native Fish in the Amazon: ANNF Database and Review. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, Article 646702. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.646702

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