TY - JOUR
T1 - Freshwater salinisation
T2 - a research agenda for a saltier world
AU - Cunillera-Montcusí, David
AU - Beklioğlu, Meryem
AU - Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel
AU - Jeppesen, Erik
AU - Ptacnik, Robert
AU - Amorim, Cihelio A.
AU - Arnott, Shelley E.
AU - Berger, Stella A.
AU - Brucet, Sandra
AU - Dugan, Hilary A.
AU - Gerhard, Miriam
AU - Horváth, Zsófia
AU - Langenheder, Silke
AU - Nejstgaard, Jens C.
AU - Reinikainen, Marko
AU - Striebel, Maren
AU - Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo
AU - Vad, Csaba F.
AU - Zadereev, Egor
AU - Matias, Miguel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The widespread salinisation of freshwater ecosystems poses a major threat to the biodiversity, functioning, and services that they provide. Human activities promote freshwater salinisation through multiple drivers (e.g., agriculture, resource extraction, urbanisation) that are amplified by climate change. Due to its complexity, we are still far from fully understanding the ecological and evolutionary consequences of freshwater salinisation. Here, we assess current research gaps and present a research agenda to guide future studies. We identified different gaps in taxonomic groups, levels of biological organisation, and geographic regions. We suggest focusing on global- and landscape-scale processes, functional approaches, genetic and molecular levels, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as key future avenues to predict the consequences of freshwater salinisation for ecosystems and human societies.
AB - The widespread salinisation of freshwater ecosystems poses a major threat to the biodiversity, functioning, and services that they provide. Human activities promote freshwater salinisation through multiple drivers (e.g., agriculture, resource extraction, urbanisation) that are amplified by climate change. Due to its complexity, we are still far from fully understanding the ecological and evolutionary consequences of freshwater salinisation. Here, we assess current research gaps and present a research agenda to guide future studies. We identified different gaps in taxonomic groups, levels of biological organisation, and geographic regions. We suggest focusing on global- and landscape-scale processes, functional approaches, genetic and molecular levels, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as key future avenues to predict the consequences of freshwater salinisation for ecosystems and human societies.
KW - freshwater salinisation syndrome
KW - global change
KW - salt
KW - secondary salinisation
U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.005
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35058082
AN - SCOPUS:85122923273
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 37
SP - 440
EP - 453
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 5
ER -