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Melting biodiversity

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Glacial meltwater contributions to rivers are declining in many parts of the world, but the effect of these changes on river communities remains poorly understood. Now a quantitative analysis points to the potential scale of this biodiversity problem.

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Figure 1: Environmental factors and their impact on the structure and function of aquatic communities in alpine streams.

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  1. Leopold Füreder is at the Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria,

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Füreder, L. Melting biodiversity. Nature Clim Change 2, 318–319 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1508

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