Proceedings of the global climate change and freshwater ecosystems

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7236343

Firth, P; Fisher, S G

This book discusses global climate change which is a certainty. The Earth's climate has never remained static for long and the prospect for human-accelerated climate change in the near future appears likely. Freshwater systems are intimately connected to climate in several ways. They may influence, or even drive, global atmospheric processes affecting climate (e.g., biogenic gas emissions from freshwater wetlands). They may be sensitive early indicators of climate change because they integrate the atmospheric and terrestrial events occurring in their catchments. And, of course, they will be affected by climate change. Freshwater hydrological processes, freshwater resources, and freshwater ecosystems have historically responded to climatic shifts and we fully expect that they will continue to do so. Climate-induced changes may include altered water temperatures, runoff, nutrient flux, discharge, flow regime, lake and aquifer levels, water quality, ice cover, suspended load, primary and secondary production, trophic dynamics, organism ranges, and migration patterns.

• OSTI ID: 7236343
• Report Number(s): CONF-9005280--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540320* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
ABSTRACTS
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CLIMATIC CHANGE
DOCUMENT TYPES
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ECOSYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
FRESH WATER
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROLOGY
LEADING ABSTRACT
MEETINGS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
WATER