Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes
In: ISSN: 0380-1330 ; Journal of Great Lakes Research ; Joint Conference of the European Large Lakes Symposium (ELLS) / Conference of the International-Association-for-Great-Lakes-Research (IAGLR) - Big Lakes - Small World ; https://hal.science/hal-03025852 ; Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2020, 46 (4), pp.686-702. ⟨10.1016/j.jglr.2020.05.006⟩, 2020
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International audience ; Large lakes of the world are habitats for diverse species, including endemic taxa, and are valuable resources that provide humanity with many ecosystem services. They are also sentinels of global and local change, and recent studies in limnology and paleolimnology have demonstrated disturbing evidence of their collective degradation in terms of depletion of resources (water and food), rapid warming and loss of ice, destruction of habitats and ecosystems, loss of species, and accelerating pollution. Large lakes are particularly exposed to anthropogenic and climatic stressors. The Second Warning to Humanity provides a framework to assess the dangers now threatening the world’s large lake ecosystems and to evaluate pathways of sustainable development that are more respectful of their ongoing provision of services. Here we review current and emerging threats to the large lakes of the world, including iconic examples of lake management failures and successes, from which we identify priorities and approaches for future conservation efforts. The review underscores the extent of lake resource degradation, which is a result of cumulative perturbation through time by long-term human impacts combined with other emerging stressors. Decades of degradation of large lakes have resulted in major challenges for restoration and management and a legacy of ecological and economic costs for future generations. Large lakes will require more intense conservation efforts in a warmer, increasingly populated world to achieve sustainable, high-quality waters. This Warning to Humanity is also an opportunity to highlight the value of a long-term lake observatory network to monitor and report on environmental changes in large lake ecosystems.
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Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Jenny, Jean-Philippe ; Anneville, Orlane ; Arnaud, Fabien ; Baulaz, Yoann ; Bouffard, Damien ; Domaizon, Isabelle ; Bocaniov, Serghei A. ; Chèvre, Nathalie ; Dittrich, Maria ; Dorioz, Jean-Marcel ; Dunlop, Erin S. ; Dur, Gael ; Guillard, Jean ; Guinaldo, Thibault ; Jacquet, Stéphan ; Jamoneau, Aurélien ; Jawed, Zobia ; Jeppesen, Erik ; Krantzberg, Gail ; Lenters, John ; Leoni, Barbara ; Meybeck, Michel ; Nava, Veronica ; Noges, Tiina ; Nõges, Peeter ; Patelli, Martina ; Pebbles, Victoria ; Perga, Marie-Elodie ; Rasconi, Serena ; Iii, Carl R. Ruetz ; Rudstam, Lars ; Salmaso, Nico ; Sapna, Sharma ; Straile, Dietmar ; Tammeorg, Olga ; Twiss, Michael R. ; Uzarski, Donald G. ; Ventelä, Anne-Mari ; Vincent, Warwick F. ; Wilhelm, Steven W. ; Wängberg, Sten-Åke ; Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A. ; Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques (CARRTEL) ; Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) ; Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) ; Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) ; Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology Dübendorf (EAWAG) ; Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement ; Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) ; Shizuoka University of Art and Culture (SUAC) ; Ecosystèmes aquatiques et changements globaux (UR EABX) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) ; Biosci, Dept ; Aarhus University Aarhus ; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ; Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) ; Milieux Environnementaux, Transferts et Interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les Sols (METIS) ; École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) ; Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557 (LEM) ; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) ; Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon (ENVL)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) ; Estonian University of Life Sciences, Inst Environm & Agr Sci, Ctr Limnol, Rannu, Tartu Country, Estonia ; Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU) ; Faculty of Geoscience and the Environment ; Partenaires, INRAE ; Department of Natural Resources ; Cornell University New York ; Fdn Edmund Mach, IASMA Research and Innovation Centre ; Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany ; Institute, Pyhäjärvi ; The University of Tennessee Knoxville |
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Zeitschrift: | ISSN: 0380-1330 ; Journal of Great Lakes Research ; Joint Conference of the European Large Lakes Symposium (ELLS) / Conference of the International-Association-for-Great-Lakes-Research (IAGLR) - Big Lakes - Small World ; https://hal.science/hal-03025852 ; Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2020, 46 (4), pp.686-702. ⟨10.1016/j.jglr.2020.05.006⟩, 2020 |
Veröffentlichung: | HAL CCSD ; Elsevier ; International Association of Great Lakes Research, 2020 |
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ISSN: | 0380-1330 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jglr.2020.05.006 |
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