Climate Change and Freshwater Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2024) | Viewed by 3216
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecological quality; ecological monitoring; hydroecology
Interests: riparian forests; macrophytes; ecosystem services; biogeography; functional ecology; adaptation to climate change; effects of land-use and stream flow regulation; indicators of ecological quality; weeds; invasive alien plants
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Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue “Climate Change and Freshwater Sustainability” of the journal Sustainability.
Climate change is expected to modify temperature and rainfall partterns around the globe. These worldwide detour anomalies from the natural standards will additionally force changes in the interception, evapotranspiration, infiltration and surface runoff of precipitated water in each river basin. Consequently, climate change will intefere with the hydrological regimes of water courses, disrupting the natural flow regimes to which biota have adapted and the way humans relate with it. Furthermore, in many regions of the globe, climate change will increase considerable water stress in aquatic and riparian communities, instilling harsher conditions to ecosystems and biota survival, and arising as one of the most important factors to the sustainability of freshwater ecosystems. All these impacts are known to accelarate the decline of biological diversity worldwide and negatively impact many aspects of life quality.
However, the indirect effects of climate change on freshwater quality resulting from subjacent relationships between biota and ecosystem functions have been seldomly investigated. This could be masking the real dimension of the climate change effects on freshwater systems.
This special topic aims, therefore, to ascertain not only possible effects of climate change on aquatic and riparian communities, but also the interlinkages in underlying drivers and feedbacks between systems and biological communities, working in an ecological network, and resenting to these climate changes as a result of a cascade of effects. This research topic intends to gather papers interconnecting the most various and inovative methods in climate change effects assessment and biota or ecosystem functioning, particularly foccusing on subjacent relationships, in order to provide a broad interdisciplinary approach to disentagle possible ecological and biological issues indirectly affected by climate change on freshwater systems.
This will ultimately bring a more holistic perception of climate change on the sustainability of freshwaters, their ecosystem services lost and consequences to human populations. Freshwater ecology papers using the most varied approaches like, empirical modeling, hydroecology, socio-hydrology and climate change-related in general, are welcome. Proposals of restoration measures, preferably as nature-based solutions addressing the highlighted issues, or to increase freshwaters overall resistance and resilience to climate change, either based on applied or modeled measures are also wanted.
Dr. Rui Rivaes
Prof. Dr. Francisca C. Aguiar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- freshwater
- aquatic ecosystem
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