Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world

Cunillera-Montcusí D., BEKLİOĞLU M., Cañedo-Argüelles M., Jeppesen E., Ptacnik R., Amorim C., ...Daha Fazla

TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, cilt.37, sa.5, ss.440-453, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 37 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.005
  • Dergi Adı: TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, Animal Behavior Abstracts, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, Environment Index, MEDLINE, Veterinary Science Database, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.440-453
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: freshwater salinisation syndrome, global change, salt, secondary salinisation
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The widespread salinisation of freshwater ecosystems poses a major threat to the biodiversity, functioning, and services that they provide. Human activities promote freshwater salinisation through multiple drivers (e.g., agriculture, resource extraction, urbanisation) that are amplified by climate change. Due to its complexity, we are still far from fully understanding the ecological and evolutionary consequences of freshwater salinisation. Here, we assess current research gaps and present a research agenda to guide future studies. We identified different gaps in taxonomic groups, levels of biological organisation, and geographic regions. We suggest focusing on global- and landscape-scale processes, functional approaches, genetic and molecular levels, and ecoevolutionary dynamics as key future avenues to predict the consequences of freshwater salinisation for ecosystems and human societies.