Anticipating responses to climate change and planning for resilience in California's freshwater ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: As human-caused climate changes accelerate, California will experience hydrologic and temperature conditions different than any encountered in recorded history. How will these changes affect the state's freshwater ecosystems? Rivers, lakes, and wetlands are managed as a water resource, but they also support a complex web of life, ranging from bacteria, fungi, and algae to macrophytes, woody plants, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. In much of the state, native freshwater organisms already struggle to survive massive water diversions and dams, deteriorating water quality, extensive land cover modification for agriculture and urban development, and invasions of exotic species. In the face of climate change, we need to expand efforts to recover degraded ecosystems

SUBMITTER: Power ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11317582 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature