Learn from Chinese examples to save endangered sturgeons from hydropower dams

Hong Cao^#¹, Liang Zhang^#², Jörn Gessner³, Leonardo Congiu⁴, Xin Gao¹, Boyd Kynard⁵, Qiwei Wei⁶, Ping Xie^{7

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China.
² Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
³ Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Department of Biology (DiBio), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁵ BK-Riverfish, LLC, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁶ Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, China. weiqw@yfi.ac.cn.
⁷ Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China. xieping@ihb.ac.cn.
⁸ Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, CERN, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China. xieping@ihb.ac.cn.
⁹ College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China. xieping@ihb.ac.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

Hong Cao et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun;9(6):880-882.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02709-4.

Hong Cao^#¹, Liang Zhang^#², Jörn Gessner³, Leonardo Congiu⁴, Xin Gao¹, Boyd Kynard⁵, Qiwei Wei⁶, Ping Xie^{7

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¹ Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China.
² Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
³ Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Department of Biology (DiBio), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
⁵ BK-Riverfish, LLC, Amherst, MA, USA.
⁶ Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuhan, China. weiqw@yfi.ac.cn.
⁷ Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China. xieping@ihb.ac.cn.
⁸ Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, CERN, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China. xieping@ihb.ac.cn.
⁹ College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China. xieping@ihb.ac.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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