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Freshwater Biodiversity - Status, Threats and Conservation (Paperback)
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Freshwater Biodiversity - Status, Threats and Conservation (Paperback)
Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
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Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose
increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their
combined effects have made these animals more endangered than their
terrestrial and marine counterparts. Overuse and contamination of
water, overexploitation and overfishing, introduction of alien
species, and alteration of natural flow regimes have led to a
'great thinning' and declines in abundance of freshwater animals, a
'great shrinking' in body size with reductions in large species,
and a 'great mixing' whereby the spread of introduced species has
tended to homogenize previously dissimilar communities in different
parts of the world. Climate change and warming temperatures will
alter global water availability, and exacerbate the other threat
factors. What conservation action is needed to halt or reverse
these trends, and preserve freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly
changing world? This book offers the tools and approaches that can
be deployed to help conserve freshwater biodiversity.
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