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Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating management options
Major rivers worldwide have experienced dramatic changes in flow, reducing their natural ability to adjust to and absorb disturbances. Given expected changes in global climate and water needs, this may create serious problems, including loss of native biodiversity and risks to ecosystems and humans from increased flooding or water shortages.
1 Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD 20688
2 Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
3 Landscape Ecology Group, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
4 Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Kurt-Wolters-Straße 3, 34109 Kassel, Germany
5 School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment.
