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Climate change impacts on a Mediterranean river and the associated interactions with the adjacent coastal area

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The Spercheios river basin—coastal marine area is a complex natural and interdependent ecosystem, highly affected by human activities and interventions. Such sensitive systems are even more vulnerable to alterations of the hydrological cycle components and it is likely to be rapidly and severely affected by climate change. In order to examine the climate change impacts on water resources of the study area, the interaction between the hydrology of the river basin and the hydrodynamic of the coastal marine area was examined using two models. Based on the results, although the irrigation needs decrease for the years 2050 and 2100 due to corresponding decrease in cultivated areas, temperature increase and precipitation decrease are both expected to influence the water resources of the Spercheios river basin, which will directly affect the Maliakos Gulf hydrodynamics. The necessity to adopt a holistic approach which will treat river basins and coastal marine areas as an integrated whole, with regard to environmental, socio-economic and political framework, is evident.

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Acknowledgements

This study was conducted under the research project "Development of an integrated management framework of river basins and associated coastal and marine zone" (MIS 448841), funded by the Ministry for Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport of Greece and the European Union—European Regional Development Fund, within the framework of the Action entitled "Proposals for Development of Research Bodies-KRIPIS" National Strategic Reference Framework (Operational Programme II, Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship).

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  1. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, 46.7 km of Athens - Sounio Ave., 19013, Anavyssos, Attiki, Greece

    Angeliki Mentzafou, Chrysa Vamvakaki & Elias Dimitriou

  2. Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, 2 Georgiou Seferi Str., 30100, Agrinio, Greece

    Ierotheos Zacharias & Areti Gianni

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Mentzafou, A., Vamvakaki, C., Zacharias, I. et al. Climate change impacts on a Mediterranean river and the associated interactions with the adjacent coastal area. Environ Earth Sci 76, 259 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6572-2

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