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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part I Impacts of anthropogenic pressure and climate change in the responses of Amazonian aquatic organisms.- 1 Anthropogenic climate change is a present and future stressor for fish communities in the Amazon Basin.- 2 Genetics, toxicological background, and environmental adaptation processes of disease- vector mosquitoes in the Amazon.- 3 Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) of the Rio Negro, Amazonia: Importance, Processes and Potential Anthropogenic Impacts.- 4 Impacts of climate change and local disturbance on stream fish assemblages in the Amazon.- 5 Amazonian aquatic insects in a changing world.- 6 Aquatic herbaceous plants of the Amazonian Wetlands: key species under pressure.- 7 The fate of floodplain forests in a changing Amazon.- 8 Amazonian aquatic food webs, their variation and vulnerability in regard to climate change.- Part II Ecotoxicology: fish and amphibian sensitivity.- 9 A double threat to Amazonian frogs: toxic contaminants and their interaction with global climate change.- 10 Toxicological impacts of pesticides and heavy metals on Amazon fish: trends and future perspectives.- 11 Impact of organic pollution on the genome of native Amazonian fish species: highlights for the cytogenomics and gene expression.- Part III Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive mechanisms: change to survive.- 12 Amazonian fish and their bacterial symbionts: An intricate co-dependence relationship in a changing environment.- 13 Environmental nucleic acids: A toolkit for monitoring diversity, conservation and environmental/population health.- 14 Air-breathing fish in the Amazon facing elevated temperatures.- Part IV - Physiological and biochemical responses.- 15 AMAZONIAN CRUSTACEANS: Macrobrachium amazonicum (Decapoda, Palaemonidae).- 16 Is electron transport system activity assay useful for aerobic scope estimation of thermal metabolic stress in fish? A case study with fish from different climatic zones..- 17 Limited thermal capacity of Amazonian fishes to survive in a warming world.- Part V Aquaculture as a tool to ensure food security in the Amazon.- 18 The future of the value chain of the Pirarucu in the Brazilian Amazon.- 19 Impacts of Climate Change on the Parasite-Host Relationship in Freshwater Aquaculture.- 20 Conclusion and Perspectives.
