Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems

Dean Jacobsen (), Alexander M. Milner, Lee E. Brown and Olivier Dangles ()
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Dean Jacobsen: Freshwater Biological Section, University of Copenhagen
Alexander M. Milner: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Birmingham
Lee E. Brown: School of Geography, University of Leeds
Olivier Dangles: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR 072, LEGS, UPR 9034

Nature Climate Change, 2012, vol. 2, issue 5, 361-364

Abstract: In many regions climate change is reducing the glacial meltwater contribution to river flow, but the effect of these changes on specialized glacier-fed river communities is poorly quantified. Now research demonstrates quantitatively not only the vulnerability of local biodiversity hotspots but also that the number of species lost is likely to be much higher than the few specialist species found only in glacier-fed rivers.

Date: 2012
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