PrefaceTowards a better understanding of the links between stressors, hazard assessment and ecosystem services under water scarcity
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Mapping future water scarcity in a water abundant nation: Near-term projections for Scotland
2021, Climate Risk ManagementCitation Excerpt :Scotland is increasingly vulnerable to periods of dry weather (Werritty and Sugden, 2012; Scottish Government, 2019a), putting pressure on water users and the environment. Such water scarcity can result in intermittent flows which impact hydrological connectivity, biodiversity, water quality, pollution, and water supply and abstractions (Blasco et al., 2015). Drought hazard results from extreme low flows in rivers, reducing water supplies and thus the capacity for abstraction causing water shortages.
Understanding multiple stressors in a Mediterranean basin: Combined effects of land use, water scarcity and nutrient enrichment
2018, Science of the Total EnvironmentCitation Excerpt :A synergistic interaction between hydrological stressors and nutrients, rather than the observed antagonistic interaction, was expected. This is because water scarcity would expectedly amplify the effects of nutrient loads by decreasing the natural diluting property of rivers (Blasco et al., 2015). An important aspect to be considered in the particular case of pairwise interactions in the context of regression-based modelling, which is the typical approach when analysing biological monitoring data, is that significant deviations from additive effects occur when one variable affects the slope of the response to the second variable.
Modelling the impacts of a water trading scheme on freshwater habitats
2017, Ecological EngineeringCitation Excerpt :Water scarcity, as a result of anthropogenic pressures, not only causes direct implications to human populations but can also be the driver of many stressors on river ecosystems. It can result in intermittent flows which impact hydrological connectivity, biodiversity, water quality, pollution, and river ecosystem functioning (Blasco et al., 2015). Water trading initiatives have been developed around the world in an attempt to more fairly allocate water resources and simultaneously to protect water for the environment and species (Johansson et al., 2002; Bjornlund, 2003; Quesne et al., 2007; Erfani et al., 2015).
Sewage contamination under water scarcity effects on stream biota: biofilm, grazers, and their interaction
2019, Environmental Science and Pollution Research