Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

By C. Vörösmarty, Peter B. McIntyre, MO Gessner, D. Dudgeon, A. Prusevich, P. Green, S. Glidden, Stuart E. Bunn, Caroline Sullivan, C. R. Liermann and 1 more. Nature, 2010

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Validation and Development of COI Metabarcoding Primers for Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment (2017, neutral): “Freshwater resources worldwide are threatened by anthropogenic activities and the pressure on these sensitive ecosystems will intensify with the exponential increase of the human population (Dudgeon et al., 2005; Vörösmarty et al., 2010).”
Nationwide Assessment of Nonpoint Source Threats to Water Quality (2012, methodology): “The procedure that we employ for combining across stressors is similar to that used in other recent assessments of environmental risks (Jones et al. 1997, Stein et al. 2002, Wang et al. 2008, Falcone et al. 2010, Vörösmarty et al. 2010).”
Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems (2013, background): “Vörösmarty et al. (2010) offer a suite of 23 maps of driver sources at 0.5 pixel resolution globally which were part of their study on threats to global river systems (http://www.riverthreat.net/).”
The Diversity of Life in African Freshwaters: Under Water, Under Threat: An Analysis of the Status and Distribution of Freshwater Species throughout Mainland Africa (2011, background): “Threats to biodiversity attributable to competition for water resources vary considerably across the continent (Vörösmarty et al. 2010).”
Integrating dispersal proxies in ecological and environmental research in the freshwater realm (2017, background): “These 81 ecosystems are all of high priority for bioassessment, restoration and conservation because 82 they comprise high levels of biodiversity (Dudgeon et al. 2006; Wiens 2015) and provide 83 crucial ecosystem services to humans (Vörösmarty et al. 2010; Garcia-Llorente at al.”
Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism (2013, background): “Water extraction, the introduction of exotic species, alteration of flow through the construction of dams and reservoirs, channelization, overexploitation and increasing levels of organic and inorganic pollution have added further stresses to freshwater ecosystems (Strayer & Dudgeon, 2010; Vörösmart”
Tracking animals in freshwater with electronic tags: past, present and future (2013, background): “Background Freshwater ecosystems around the globe face many threats and stressors [1-4], which have collectively led to dramatic reductions in freshwater biodiversity for a range of taxa [5,6].”
Sustainability in the water–energy–food nexus (2015, background): “Vörösmarty et al. (2010) provide an illustration of how dams which were constructed to enhance water availability, flood protection, hydropower and other services are part of the WEF nexus.”