Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Threats of global warming to the world’s freshwater fishes

  • Valerio Barbarossa,
  • Joyce Bosmans,
  • Niko Wanders,
  • Henry King,
  • Marc F. P. Bierkens,
  • Mark A. J. Huijbregts,
  • Aafke M. Schipper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21655-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Climate change is a threat to global biodiversity, but the potential effects on freshwater fishes have not been well studied. Here the authors model future flow and water temperature extremes and predict that increases in water temperature in particular will pose serious threats to freshwater fishes