Scenarios of freshwater fish extinctions from climate change and water withdrawal

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1557-1564

  Xenopoulos, Marguerite A ^a,e   Lodge, David M ^a   Alcamo, Joseph ^b   Märker, Michael ^c   Schulze, Kerstin ^b   Van Vuuren, Detlef P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fish richness; Global rivers; IPCC; Reduced discharge; Scenarios; Species discharge; Water consumption; WaterGAP

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FISH; FRESHWATER; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 31544471596     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001008.x     Document Type: Article

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