Multiple Stressors in River Ecosystems: Status, Impacts and Prospects for the Future

Multiple Stressors in River Ecosystems: Status, Impacts and Prospects for the Future provides a comprehensive and current overview on the topic as written by leading river scientists who discuss the relevance of co-occurring stressors for river ecosystems. River ecosystems are subject to multiple stressors that threaten their ecological status and the ecosystem services they provide. This book updates the reader’s knowledge on the response and management of river ecosystems to multi-stress situations occurring under global change. Detailing the risk for biodiversity and functioning in a case-study approach, it provides insight into methodological issues, also including the socioeconomic implications.

Presents a case study approach and geographic description on the relevance of multiple stressors on river ecosystems in different biomesGives a uniquely integrated perspective on different stressors, including their interactions and joint effects, as opposed to the traditional one-by-one approachCompiles state-of-the-art methods and technologies in monitoring, modeling and analyzing river ecosystems under multiple stress conditions

1. Defining Multiple Stressor Implications 2. Climate Change and Interactions between climate change and multiple stressors in rivers 3. Understanding the nexus between hydrological alteration and biological invasions 4. Multiple Stressors and hydromorphological degradation 5. Multiple stressors in Riparian ecosystems 6. Water scarcity as a driver of multiple stressor effects 7. An introduction to the geography of multiple stressors 8. Water Stressors in Europe: New threats in the Old World 9. Multiple Stressors in North America: Perspectives for the New World 10. Multiple Stressors in African Freshwater Systems 11. Multiple Stressors in China's freshwater eco-regions 12. Multiple Stressors in the Neotropical Region: Environmental Impacts in biodiversity hotspots 13. Multiple Stressors in Australia and New Zealand: Key stressors and interactions 14. Detecting and Quantifying the impact of multiple stress on river ecosystems 15. Application of a multi-stressor risk-framework to the monitoring, assessment and diagnosis of river health 16. Projecting the consequences of climate change on river ecosystems 17. Managing Ecosystem services under multiple stress 18. Multi-stressor effects on riverine drinking water production and management 19. Socio-economic and policy implications of multi-stressed rivers: A European perspective 20. An integrated perspective of multiple stressors in river ecosystems from the catchment to the continental scale 21. Concluding Remarks