Climate change and the world's river basins: Anticipating management options

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-89

  Palmer, Margaret A ^a,b   Reidy Liermann, Catherine A ^c   Nilsson, Christer ^c   Flörke, Martina ^d   Alcamo, Joseph ^d   Lake, P Sam ^e   Bond, Nick ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MITIGATION; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW;

EID: 40349096337     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/060148     Document Type: Review

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