Freshwater type.

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Schindler, D.W. (2001):

The cumulative effects of climate warming and other human stresses on Canadian freshwaters in the new millennium. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 18-29.

Description

Increased draught, weaker spring flows, less inundation. Leads to disappearing wetlands. Demise of fisheries, of waterfowl and muskrat populations.

Case study for Climate Change / Wetlands in cold ecoregions:

Parameter group Indicator
Secondary production - fish Fish distribution, richness, abundance change
Vertebrates Birds: migration, timing, range, distribution

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Climate Change and Freshwater
Online: http://www.climate-and-freshwater.info/wetlands-cold-ecoregions/case-studies/detail.php
Date: 2010/09/09
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