Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century

Doru Bănăduc; Angela Curtean-Bănăduc; Sophia Barinova; Verónica L. Lozano; Sergey Afanasyev; Tamara Leite; Paulo Branco; Daniel Gomez Isaza; Juergen Geist; Aristoteles Tegos; Horea Olosutean; Kevin Cianfanglione

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Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century

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Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century

Doru Bănăduc, Angela Curtean-Bănăduc, Sophia Barinova, Verónica L. Lozano, Sergey Afanasyev, Tamara Leite, Paulo Branco, Daniel Gomez Isaza, Juergen Geist, Aristoteles Tegos, …

Water, Vol.16(11), 1483

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/w16111483

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Abstract

The inheritance of historic human-induced disruption and the fierceness of its impact change aquatic ecosystems. This work reviews some of the main stressors on freshwater ecosystems, focusing on their effects, threats, risks, protection, conservation, and management elements. An overview is provided on the water protection linked to freshwater stressors: solar ultraviolet radiation, thermal pollution, nanoparticles, radioactive pollution, salinization, nutrients, sedimentation, drought, extreme floods, fragmentation, pesticides, war and terrorism, algal blooms, invasive aquatic plants, riparian vegetation, and invasive aquatic fish. Altogether, these stressors build an exceptionally composite background of stressors that are continuously changing freshwater ecosystems and diminishing or even destroying their capability to create and maintain ongoing natural healthy products and essential services to humans. Environmental and human civilization sustainability cannot exist without the proper management of freshwater ecosystems all over the planet; this specific management is impossible if the widespread studied stressors are not deeply understood structurally and functionally. Without considering each of these stressors and their synergisms, the Earth’s freshwater is doomed in terms of both quantitative and qualitative aspects.

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Title: Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century
Authors/Creators: Doru Bănăduc
Angela Curtean-Bănăduc
Sophia Barinova
Verónica L. Lozano
Sergey Afanasyev
Tamara Leite
Paulo Branco
Daniel Gomez Isaza - Murdoch University, Harry Butler Institute
Juergen Geist
Aristoteles Tegos
Horea Olosutean
Kevin Cianfanglione
Publication Details: Water, Vol.16(11), 1483
Publisher: MDPI
Identifiers: 991005674867207891
Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.
Murdoch Affiliation: Harry Butler Institute; Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology; 3.2 Marine Biology; 3.2.62 Freshwater Fish Ecology
Web Of Science research areas: Environmental Sciences; Water Resources
ESI research areas: Environment/Ecology