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Changes in land use pose greater threat to aquatic diversity than climate change

2015-05-20 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: For the first time, scientists at the Senckenberg Research Center for Biodiversity and Climate and the Research Institute Senckenberg in Gelnhausen have modeled the effects of land use changes on the species diversity in rivers and streams. Their results show that the loss of biodiversity is caused to a significantly higher degree by changes in land use practices than by climate change. In consequence, conservation concepts for this valuable ecosystem and the organisms that live in flowing water...

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