Editorial: Fish as sentinels of urbanization impacts in aquatic ecosystems

JUAN JOSE ROSSO; RANDALL BRIAN LANGERHANS; AVIGLIANO, E.

Frontiers in environmental science

Frontiers

Año: 2023

By 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally (United Nations, 2018). Cities tend to occur near water because of the fundamental need for freshwater, but also because of its diverse uses (travel, commerce, food production, power generation, flood management). In this context, urbanized landscapes represent a major threat to freshwater (Albert et al., 2020) and marine (Alter et al., 2020) organisms. Being one of the only vertebrates that inhabit all types of aquatic ecosystems, fish are good candidates to serve as sentinels of the impacts of urbanization.