This study uses some participatory research methods to characterise a data-poor fishery in the lower Nam Kading River, a tributary of the Mekong River. View -
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Authors
H.C. Patricio, S.A. Zipper, M.L. Peterson, S.M. Ainsley, E.K. Loury, S. Ounboundisane, and D.B. Demko
Publication Date
24 September 2018
Publication Name
Marine and Freshwater Research
Topics
assemblage, catch per unit effort, fresh water, Lao PDR, Laos, subsistence fishery
To overcome the lack of data from extensive small-scale harvests, this study used household consumption surveys to estimate freshwater fish catches in 42 low- and middle-income -
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Authors
E. Fluet-Chouinard, S. Funge-Smith, and P.B. McIntyre
Publication Date
18 June 2018
Publication Name
PNAS
Topics
inland fisheries, capture fisheries, consumption surveys, national statistics, food security
This paper look for signatures of human impacts on the indiscriminately fished Tonle Sap fish community that supports one of the world’s largest freshwater fisheries -
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Authors
P.B. Ngor, K.S. McCann, G. Grenouillet, N. So, B.C. McMeans, E. Fraser, and S. Lek
Publication Date
12 June 2018
Publication Name
Scientific Reports
Topics
food webs, freshwater ecology, industrial fishery
This paper investigates the temporal responses of local fish beta diversity to hydrologic modification by the upstream functioning dams in five sites of the Mekong-3S system. -
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Authors
P.B. Ngor, P. Legendre, T. Oberdorff, and S. Lek
Publication Date
30 January 2018
Publication Name
Ecological Indicators
Topics
dam effects, fish abundance, fish richness, temporal beta diversity, environmental filtering, Lower Mekong Basin
This study used a data-based time series modeling approach to estimate the features of the flow regime that optimize the fishery that is crucial to food -
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Authors
J.L. Sabo, A. Ruhi, G.W. Holtgrieve, V. Elliott, M.E. Arias, P.B. Ngor, T. A. Räsänen, and S. Nam
Publication Date
08 Dec 2017
Publication Name
Science
Topics
flow regime, dam operations, prescription flows, time series modeling, fishery production, food security
This article explores whether policy-makers and managers can be smarter in dam design and operation to reduce inherent conflicts and generate valuable co-benefits. View online
Authors
N.L.. Poff and J.D. Olden
Publication Date
08 Dec 2017
Publication Name
Science
Topics
energy security, dam operations, ecosystem services
This study investigates the temporal change of yields of the most dominant fish species of the Tonle Sap Lake and to evaluate the spatio-temporal changes in -
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Authors
B. Chan, P.B. Ngor, N. So, and Sovan Lek
Publication Date
06 December 2017
Publication Name
International Journal of Limnolog
Topics
Fishing lots, Tonle Sap Lake, Indicative species, Inland fisheries, Fish yields
In this study, the implications of increasing fishing pressure are explored by critically evaluating the perceptions of the fishers who rely on these ecosystems to -
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Authors
K. B. KC, N. Bond, E. D. G. Fraser, V. Elliott, T. Farrell, K. McCann, N. Rooney, and C. Bieg
Publication Date
16 November 2017
Publication Name
Fisheries Management and Ecology
Topics
Catch, Ecosystem sustainability, Southeast Asia, Species composition
This study uses Local Ecological Knowledge from fishing communities on the Mekong River in the Siphandone waterscape, Lao PDR, to estimate last capture dates of -
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Authors
T.N.E. Gray, A. Phommachak, K. Vannachomchan, and F. Guegan
Publication Date
18 August 2017
Publication Name
PLoS ONE
Topics
local ecological knowledge, endangered species, biodiversity, megafauna, Lao PDR
This paper studies fish assemblages in the Tonle Sap Lake of Cambodia—a dynamic flood-pulse ecosystem—for five years (2010–2014) using stable isotope and Bayesian statistical approaches -
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Authors
T. Pool, G. Holtgrieve, V. Elliott, K. McCann, B. McMeans, N. Rooney, A. Smits, T. Phanara, M. Cooperman, S. Clark, C. Phen, S. Chhuoy
Publication Date
12 July 2017
Publication Name
Ecosphere
Topics
flood-pulse; food webs; stable isotopes; trophic dynamics