Water quality improvements offset the climatic debt for stream macroinvertebrates over twenty years
Both climate change and environmental degradation pose harm to freshwaters. Here the authors find that macroinvertebrate communities in England and Wales maintained equilibrium with the environment from 1991 to 2011, and attribute this to water quality improvements offsetting rising temperatures.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-04-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09736-3 |