Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation
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Special Issue: Climate adaptation of inland waters: Increasing resilience, developing novel management strategies, and sustaining ecosystem services
Aquatic environments – rivers, lakes, and reservoirs – are rapidly changing in response to long-term climate change (e.g. warming, wind stilling, altered precipitation) combined with short-term extreme fluctuations (e.g. heatwaves, floods). Traditional water management needs an update towards developing and implementing new adaptation strategies that mitigate negative impacts of climate change, make freshwater ecosystems more resilient, and secure human use. This special issue explores novel strategies for climate adaptation and impact mitigation for freshwater ecosystems including water resources management, water governance and new instruments for science-based decision making. We particularly encourage papers that propose novel approaches to averting or suppressing potential problems before they become disastrous. This can involve new monitoring or modelling tools, digital technologies, adaptive management, and/or legislative and prospective governance approaches. We expect these climate adaptation approaches will help enable societies to adapt to and mitigate threats of climate change on lentic and lotic waters. We encourage interested scientists to email the guest before submitting a manuscript in order to make sure that their research fits to the scope of the special issue editors (including title and, if possible, abstract).
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Dr. Karsten Rinke
Department Lake Research, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany
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Dr. Chenxi Mi
Department Lake Research, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany
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Dr. Cayelan Carey
Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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Dr. Madeline Magee
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison, WI, USA
