People need freshwater biodiversity
United States Geological Survey · Climate Adaptation Science Centers · +29 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract Freshwater biodiversity, from fish to frogs and microbes to macrophytes, provides a vast array of services to people. Mounting concerns focus on the accelerating pace of biodiversity loss and declining ecological function within freshwater ecosystems that continue to threaten these natural benefits. Here, we catalog nine fundamental ecosystem services that the biotic components of indigenous freshwater biodiversity provide to people, organized into three categories: material (food; health and genetic resources; material goods), non‐material (culture; education and science; recreation), and regulating (catchment integrity; climate regulation; water purification and nutrient cycling). If freshwater…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 67.60
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 193
Authors
22- AJAbigail J. LynchCorresponding
United States Geological Survey, Climate Adaptation Science Centers
- SJSteven J. Cooke
Carleton University
- AHAngela H. Arthington
Griffith University
- CBClaudio Baigún
National University of General San Martín
- LBLisa Bossenbroek
University of Koblenz and Landau, Universität Koblenz
Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Business
- Environmental resource management
- Environmental science
- Freshwater ecosystem
- Environmental planning
- Earth science
- Geology
Funding
- MDMinisterio de Ciencia e InnovaciónAward: MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/
- COConsortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
- UGU.S. Geological Survey
- LLeibniz-Gemeinschaft
- AEAgencia Estatal de InvestigaciónAwards: AEI/10.13039/501100011033, 501100011033, 10.13039/501100011033, MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, 13039, 10.13039, MDM-2017-0714, AEI/10, 13039/501100011033, AEI/10.