1. Freshwater ecosystems worldwide harbour disproportionately high numbers of endemic species under threat from human activity, particularly accelerated habitat fragmentation. The Murray-Darling Basin in southeastern Australia, one of the country's largest and arguably its most vulnerable freshwater ecosystem, is inhabited by a number of small-bodied fishes that are threatened with imminent extinction.
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