Meeting the challenge of interacting threats in freshwater ecosystems: A call to scientists and managers

LS Craig, JD Olden, AH Arthington, S Entrekin… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
Human activities create threats that have consequences for freshwater ecosystems and, in
most watersheds, observed ecological responses are the result of complex interactions …

Resilience of terrestrial and aquatic fauna to historical and future wildfire regimes in western North America

HI Jager, JW Long, RL Malison, BP Murphy… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires in many western North American forests are becoming more frequent, larger, and
severe, with changed seasonal patterns. In response, coniferous forest ecosystems will …

Bending the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss: an emergency recovery plan

D Tickner, JJ Opperman, R Abell, M Acreman… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Despite their limited spatial extent, freshwater ecosystems host remarkable biodiversity,
including one-third of all vertebrate species. This biodiversity is declining dramatically …

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

KMA Chan, DR Boyd, RK Gould, J Jetzkowitz… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries
and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global …

Elemental properties, hydrology, and biology interact to shape concentration‐discharge curves for carbon, nutrients, sediment, and major ions

F Moatar, BW Abbott, C Minaudo… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the prevalence and cause of concentration‐discharge (C‐Q) relationships for
carbon, nutrients, major ions, and particulates, we analyzed 40 years of water quality data …

Scenario modelling of land use/land cover changes in Munessa-Shashemene landscape of the Ethiopian highlands

M Kindu, T Schneider, M Döllerer, D Teketay… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Models under a set of scenarios are used to simulate and improve our
understanding of land use/land cover (LULC) changes, which is central for sustainable …

Salinity and temperature increase impact groundwater crustaceans

A Castaño-Sánchez, GC Hose, ASPS Reboleira - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Anthropogenic impacts in groundwater ecosystems remain poorly known. Climate change is
omnipresent, while groundwater salinization poses serious long-term environmental …

Recent and rapid anthropogenic habitat fragmentation increases extinction risk for freshwater biodiversity

CJ Brauer, LB Beheregaray - Evolutionary applications, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic habitat fragmentation is often implicated as driving the current global
extinction crisis, particularly in freshwater ecosystems. The genetic signal of recent …

Comparison of manual mapping and automated object-based image analysis of non-submerged aquatic vegetation from very-high-resolution UAS images

E Husson, F Ecke, H Reese - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aquatic vegetation has important ecological and regulatory functions and should be
monitored in order to detect ecosystem changes. Field data collection is often costly and …

Trends and sensitivities of low streamflow extremes to discharge timing and magnitude in Pacific Northwest mountain streams

PR Kormos, CH Luce, SJ Wenger… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Path analyses of historical streamflow data from the Pacific Northwest indicate that the
precipitation amount has been the dominant control on the magnitude of low streamflow …