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Foreseeable Effects of CO2 -induced Climatic Change: Freshwater Concerns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Charles C. Coutant
Charles C. Coutant
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Senior Research Ecologist, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA.
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Freshwater environments are expected to be particularly responsive to temperature rises and changed precipitation régimes that are anticipated to result from progressive increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel combustion. Recognition of potential impacts on aquatic systems should strengthen research and management planning for the future, and provide more confident estimates of the risks from CO2 elevation than those at present available. This report briefly evaluates those aquatic impacts that are believed to be important and worthy of investigation and quantitative forecasting.

Priorities for additional research have been suggested for the issues discussed herein. These priorities vary according to the use of pertinent data, the credibility of presumed risk (which may change as, for example, climatic models are better refined), the timing in relation to prerequisite information, current efforts already under way, and the feasibility of obtaining the desired data. The ranking remains subjective, however, and debatable.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Winter 1981 , pp. 285 - 297
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1981

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