Scientific Reports (Feb 2021)
Hydro-climatic changes of wetlandscapes across the world
- I. Åhlén,
- G. Vigouroux,
- G. Destouni,
- J. Pietroń,
- N. Ghajarnia,
- J. Anaya,
- J. Blanco,
- S. Borja,
- S. Chalov,
- K. P. Chun,
- N. Clerici,
- A. Desormeaux,
- P. Girard,
- O. Gorelits,
- A. Hansen,
- F. Jaramillo,
- Z. Kalantari,
- A. Labbaci,
- L. Licero-Villanueva,
- J. Livsey,
- G. Maneas,
- K. L. McCurley Pisarello,
- D. Moshir Pahani,
- S. Palomino-Ángel,
- R. Price,
- C. Ricaurte-Villota,
- L. Fernanda Ricaurte,
- V. H. Rivera-Monroy,
- A. Rodriguez,
- E. Rodriguez,
- J. Salgado,
- B. Sannel,
- S. Seifollahi-Aghmiuni,
- M. Simard,
- Y. Sjöberg,
- P. Terskii,
- J. Thorslund,
- D. A. Zamora,
- J. Jarsjö
Affiliations
- I. Åhlén
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- G. Vigouroux
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- G. Destouni
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- J. Pietroń
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- N. Ghajarnia
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- J. Anaya
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Medellín
- J. Blanco
- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia
- S. Borja
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- S. Chalov
- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- K. P. Chun
- Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University
- N. Clerici
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad del Rosario
- A. Desormeaux
- School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida
- P. Girard
- Centro de Pesquisa do Pantanal and BioScience Institute, Federal University of Mato Grosso
- O. Gorelits
- Zubov State Oceanographic Institute
- A. Hansen
- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Kansas
- F. Jaramillo
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- Z. Kalantari
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- A. Labbaci
- Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University
- L. Licero-Villanueva
- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald
- J. Livsey
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- G. Maneas
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- K. L. McCurley Pisarello
- Department of Soil and Water Sciences, University of Florida
- D. Moshir Pahani
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- S. Palomino-Ángel
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Medellín
- R. Price
- Department of Earth and Environment, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University
- C. Ricaurte-Villota
- Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras de Colombia “José Benito Vives de Andreis”—INVEMAR
- L. Fernanda Ricaurte
- Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute
- V. H. Rivera-Monroy
- Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute
- A. Rodriguez
- Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras de Colombia “José Benito Vives de Andreis”—INVEMAR
- E. Rodriguez
- Civil and Agricultural Engineering Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- J. Salgado
- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes
- B. Sannel
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- S. Seifollahi-Aghmiuni
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- M. Simard
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Y. Sjöberg
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
- P. Terskii
- Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
- J. Thorslund
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- D. A. Zamora
- Civil and Agricultural Engineering Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- J. Jarsjö
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81137-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Abstract Assessments of ecosystem service and function losses of wetlandscapes (i.e., wetlands and their hydrological catchments) suffer from knowledge gaps regarding impacts of ongoing hydro-climatic change. This study investigates hydro-climatic changes during 1976–2015 in 25 wetlandscapes distributed across the world’s tropical, arid, temperate and cold climate zones. Results show that the wetlandscapes were subject to precipitation (P) and temperature (T) changes consistent with mean changes over the world’s land area. However, arid and cold wetlandscapes experienced higher T increases than their respective climate zone. Also, average P decreased in arid and cold wetlandscapes, contrarily to P of arid and cold climate zones, suggesting that these wetlandscapes are located in regions of elevated climate pressures. For most wetlandscapes with available runoff (R) data, the decreases were larger in R than in P, which was attributed to aggravation of climate change impacts by enhanced evapotranspiration losses, e.g. caused by land-use changes.
