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Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems

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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
    Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska)

  • Lee E. Brown

    (School of Geography, University of Leeds)

  • Olivier Dangles

    (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR 072, LEGS, UPR 9034
    Université Paris-Sud 11
    Laboratorio de Entomologı´a, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador)

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.

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  • Dean Jacobsen & Alexander M. Milner & Lee E. Brown & Olivier Dangles, 2012. "Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 2(5), pages 361-364, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:2:y:2012:i:5:d:10.1038_nclimate1435
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1435
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    2. Bing Wang & Su-Yan Pan & Ruo-Yu Ke & Ke Wang & Yi-Ming Wei, 2014. "An overview of climate change vulnerability: a bibliometric analysis based on Web of Science database," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 74(3), pages 1649-1666, December.
    3. Ram Shah & Subodh Sharma & Peter Haase & Sonja Jähnig & Steffen Pauls, 2015. "The climate sensitive zone along an altitudinal gradient in central Himalayan rivers: a useful concept to monitor climate change impacts in mountain regions," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 132(2), pages 265-278, September.
    4. Shin Sugiyama & Masahiro Minowa & Yasushi Fukamachi & Shuntaro Hata & Yoshihiro Yamamoto & Tobias Sauter & Christoph Schneider & Marius Schaefer, 2021. "Subglacial discharge controls seasonal variations in the thermal structure of a glacial lake in Patagonia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-9, December.
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