Multiple Stressors in River Ecosystems
Status, Impacts and Prospects for the Future

An integrated perspective on the environmental stressors on rivers, including interactions and joint effects

Sergi Sabater (Edited by), Arturo Elosegi (Edited by), Ralf Ludwig (Edited by)

9780128117132

Paperback, published 17 November 2018

404 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.6 cm, 0.79 kg

Approx.392 pages

1. Defining Multiple Stressor Implications 2. Climate Change and Interactions between climate change and multiple stressors in rivers 3. Understanding the nexus between hydrological alteration and biological invasions 4. Multiple Stressors and hydromorphological degradation 5. Multiple stressors in Riparian ecosystems 6. Water scarcity as a driver of multiple stressor effects 7. An introduction to the geography of multiple stressors 8. Water Stressors in Europe: New threats in the Old World 9. Multiple Stressors in North America: Perspectives for the New World 10. Multiple Stressors in African Freshwater Systems 11. Multiple Stressors in China's freshwater eco-regions 12. Multiple Stressors in the Neotropical Region: Environmental Impacts in biodiversity hotspots 13. Multiple Stressors in Australia and New Zealand: Key stressors and interactions 14. Detecting and Quantifying the impact of multiple stress on river ecosystems 15. Application of a multi-stressor risk-framework to the monitoring, assessment and diagnosis of river health 16. Projecting the consequences of climate change on river ecosystems 17. Managing Ecosystem services under multiple stress 18. Multi-stressor effects on riverine drinking water production and management 19. Socio-economic and policy implications of multi-stressed rivers: A European perspective 20. An integrated perspective of multiple stressors in river ecosystems from the catchment to the continental scale 21. Concluding Remarks

Subject Areas: Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF]