Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project
2015
Аутори:
Navarro-Ortega, AliciaAcuna, Vicenc
Bellin, Alberto
Burek, Peter
Cassiani, Giorgio
Choukr-Allah, Redouane
Doledec, Sylvain
Elosegi, Arturo
Ferrari, Federico
Ginebreda, Antoni
Grathwohl, Peter
Jones, Colin
Rault, Philippe Ker
Kok, Kasper
Koundouri, Phoebe
Ludwig, Ralf Peter
Merz, Ralf
Milacic, Radmila
Munoz, Isabel
Nikulin, Grigory
Paniconi, Claudio
Paunović, Momir
Petrovic, Mira
Sabater, Laia
Sabater, Sergi
Skoulikidis, Nikolaos Th.
Slob, Adriaan
Teutsch, Georg
Voulvoulis, Nikolaos
Barcelo, Damia
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Приказ свих података о документуАпстракт:
Water scarcity is a serious environmental problem in many European
regions, and will likely increase in the near future as a consequence of
increased abstraction and climate change. Water scarcity exacerbates the
effects of multiple stressors, and thus results in decreased water
quality. It impacts river ecosystems, threatens the services they
provide, and it will force managers and policy-makers to change their
current practices. The EU-FP7 project GLOBAQUA aims at identifying the
prevalence, interaction and linkages between stressors, and to assess
their effects on the chemical and ecological status of freshwater
ecosystems in order to improve water management practice and policies.
GLOBAQUA assembles a multidisciplinary team of 21 European plus 2
non-European scientific institutions, as well as water authorities and
river basin managers. The project includes experts in hydrology,
chemistry, biology, geomorphology, modelling, socio-economics,
governance science, knowledge brokerage, and policy advocacy. GLOBAQUA
studies six river basins (Ebro, Adige, Sava, Evrotas, Anglian and Souss
Massa) affected by water scarcity, and aims to answer the following
questions: how does water scarcity interact with other existing
stressors in the study river basins? How will these interactions change
according to the different scenarios of future global change? Which will
be the foreseeable consequences for river ecosystems? How will these in
turn affect the services the ecosystems provide? How should management
and policies be adapted to minimise the ecological, economic and
societal consequences? These questions will be approached by combining
data-mining, field- and laboratory-based research, and modelling. Here,
we outline the general structure of the project and the activities to be
conducted within the fourteen work-packages of GLOBAQUA. (C) 2014 The
Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Кључне речи:
Water quality; Ecosystem functioning; Ecosystem services; Modelling; Climate scenarios; Improved managementИзвор:
Science of the Total Environment, 2015, 503, SI, 3-9Финансирање / пројекти:
- Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity (EU-FP7-603629)
- Generalitat de Catalunya (Consolidated Research Groups “2014 SGR 418 - Water and Soil Quality Unit” and 2014 SGR 291 - ICRA)
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.06.081
ISSN: 0048-9697
PubMed: 25005236