The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020711%3A_____%2F23%3A10154945" target="_blank" >RIV/00020711:_____/23:10154945 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/23:00134232
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06400-1" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06400-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt
Original language description
Owing to a long history of anthropogenic pressures, freshwater ecosystems are among the most vulnerable to biodiversity loss. Mitigation measures, including wastewater treatment and hydromorphological restoration, have aimed to improve environmental quality and foster the recovery of freshwater biodiversity. Here, using 1,816 time series of freshwater invertebrate communities collected across 22 European countries between 1968 and 2020, we quantified temporal trends in taxonomic and functional diversity and their responses to environmental pressures and gradients. We observed overall increases in taxon richness (0.73% per year), functional richness (2.4% per year) and abundance (1.17% per year). However, these increases primarily occurred before the 2010s, and have since plateaued. Freshwater communities downstream of dams, urban areas and cropland were less likely to experience recovery. Communities at sites with faster rates of warming had fewer gains in taxon richness, functional richness and abundance. Although biodiversity gains in the 1990s and 2000s probably reflect the effectiveness of water-quality improvements and restoration projects, the decelerating trajectory in the 2010s suggests that the current measures offer diminishing returns. Given new and persistent pressures on freshwater ecosystems, including emerging pollutants, climate change and the spread of invasive species, we call for additional mitigation to revive the recovery of freshwater biodiversity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10617 - Marine biology, freshwater biology, limnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-17305S" target="_blank" >GA20-17305S: Climatically promoted homogenization of aquatic macroinvertebrates tested on three model lotic systems and historical data</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
NATURE
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
1476-4687
Volume of the periodical
620
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9. 8. 2023
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
582-588
UT code for WoS article
001049610700016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85167334514