Vulnerability of alpine stream biodiversity to shrinking glaciers and snowpacks

By L. Brown, David M. Hannah, A. Milner. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Water Science and Technology

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Small but mighty: headwaters are vital to stream network biodiversity at two levels of organization (2011, background): “These threats include various effects of climate change (Brown et al. 2007, Finn et al. 2009, 2010) and loss of regulatory protection (Meyer et al. 2007, Leibowitz et al. 2008), which encourages more rapid degradation of small streams via filling, pumping, complete removal (Palmer et al. 2010), and…”
Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate (2010, background): “Such taxonomic and functional shifts in mountain stream food webs might be expected more widely across the world, owing to global reductions in glacier and snowpack extent (e.g. Brown et al., 2007; Milner et al., 2009).”
Climate Change and the Future of Freshwater Biodiversity in Europe: A Primer for Policy-Makers (2009, background): “Many species are declining (Pimm et al., 1995; Brown et al., 2007; Durance & Ormerod, Earth’s climate is changing, and by the end of the 21st century in Europe, average temperatures are likely to have risen by at least 2 °C, and more likely 4 °C, with associated effects on patterns of precipitation…”
Rapid loss of glacial ice reveals stream community assembly processes (2012, background): “Further examination of these processes examined in this study will be of fundamental importance because the knowledge gained could help to predict better how glacierized environments will develop with ongoing global patterns of glacier retreat (Brown et al., 2007; Finn et al., 2010).”
Sentinel systems on the razor's edge: effects of warming on Arctic geothermal stream ecosystems (2010, result): “Other recent studies in Iceland, continental Europe and North America have revealed similar shifts in chironomid assemblages as stream temperatures rise with decreasing glacial influence (Ólafsson et al., 2000, 2002; Rossaro et al., 2006; Brown et al., 2007; Milner et al., 2008).”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “…is prohibitively expensive and probably explains natural experiments in geothermal areas (Demars et al., 2011; Friberg et al., 2009; Gudmundsdottir et al., 2011b) or across steep altitudinal gradients (e.g. Brown et al., 2007; Lavandier and Décamps, 1983) have been favoured over mesocosm studies.”
Physical and biological changes to a lengthening stream gradient following a decade of rapid glacial recession (2010, background): “…impact on the aquatic assemblage than the decade-scale glacial recession monitored in our study, particularly since groundwater-dominated alpine streams have a significantly different biological composition than meltwater-dominated streams (Ward, 1994; Hieber et al., 2005; Brown et al., 2007a).”
Potential impact of climate change on aquatic insects: A sensitivity analysis for European caddisflies (Trichoptera) based on distribution patterns and ecological preferences (2009, background): “Several recent studies address freshwater species, e.g., phytoplankton (Elliott et al. , 2006), benthic invertebrates (Bonada et al. , 2007; Brown et al., 2007; Durance and Ormerod, 2007) and fish (Xenopoulos et al. , 2005).”
Climate-induced range contraction of a rare alpine aquatic invertebrate (2014, background): “Cold-water stenothermic species inhabiting alpine stream environments are especially vulnerable to climate warming and glacier loss (Brown et al. 2007) because these areas are functionally “biological islands”, with limited opportunity for dispersal and gene flow (Finn et al. 2006).”
Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization (2010, background): “In the current phase of climate warming, many glaciers worldwide are shrinking, and loss of snow and ice is expected to alter the dynamics of river basin runoff leading to warmer water temperatures and greater community abundance and diversity (Brown et al. 2007).”
Climate change hastens the turnover of stream fish assemblages (2008, background): “, 2006) or projected for the future (e.g. Sætersdal et al., 1998; Brown et al., 2007) for other organisms.”
Climate change links fate of glaciers and an endemic alpine invertebrate (2011, background): “This is particularly true for range-restricted mountaintop aquatic species that show strong temperature and flow-related range contractions and thus are potentially the most threatened groups of species due to impeding climate change (Parmesan 2006; La Sorte and Jetz 2010; Brown et al. 2007; Milner ”