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Scientists’ warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis
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Freshwater ecosystems provide irreplaceable services for both nature and society. The quality and quantity of freshwater affect biogeochemical processes and ecological dynamics that determine biodiversity, ecosystem productivity, and human health and welfare at local, regional and global scales. Freshwater ecosystems and their associated riparian habitats are amongst the most biologically diverse on Earth, and have inestimable economic, health, cultural, scientific and educational values. Yet human impacts to lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands and groundwater are dramatically reducing biodiversity and robbing critical natural resources and services from current and future generations. Freshwater biodiversity is declining rapidly on every continent and in every major river basin on Earth, and this degradation is occurring more rapidly than in terrestrial ecosystems. Currently, about one third of all global freshwater discharges pass through human agricultural, industrial or urban infrastructure. About one fifth of the Earth's arable land is now already equipped for irrigation, including all the most productive lands, and this proportion is projected to surpass one third by midcentury to feed the rapidly expanding populations of humans and commensal species, especially poultry and ruminant livestock. Less than one fifth of the world's preindustrial freshwater wetlands remain, and this proportion is projected to decline to under one tenth by midcentury, with imminent threats from water transfer megaprojects in Brazil and India, and coastal wetland drainage megaprojects in China. The Living Planet Index for freshwater vertebrate populations has declined to just one third that of 1970, and is projected to sink below one fifth by midcentury. A linear model of global economic expansion yields the chilling prediction that human utilization of critical freshwater resources will approach one half of the Earth's total capacity by midcentury. Although the magnitude and growth of the human freshwater footprint are greater than is generally understood by policy makers, the news media, or the general public, slowing and reversing dramatic losses of freshwater species and ecosystems is still possible. We recommend a set of urgent policy actions that promote clean water, conserve watershed services, and restore freshwater ecosystems and their vital services. Effective management of freshwater resources and ecosystems must be ranked amongst humanity's highest priorities.
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“Freshwater biodiversity is declining rapidly on every continent and in every major river basin on Earth, and this degradation is occurring more rapidly than in terrestrial ecosystems.”
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“Rates in the decline of both freshwater and terrestrial groups are also closely associated with extent of wetland loss (Fig. 1b).”
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“A linear model of global economic expansion yields the chilling prediction that human utilization of critical freshwater resources will approach one half of the Earth's total capacity by midcentury.”
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“Such a linear model of global economic expansion yields the chilling prediction that human utilization of critical freshwater resources will approach and even exceed 50% of the Earth's natural supply by midcentury.”
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“Measures of global freshwater withdrawals and total land area equipped for irrigation are rising faster than the human use of terrestrial ecological productivity (Fig. 1a).”
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“Freshwater biodiversity is declining rapidly on every continent and in every major river basin on Earth, and this degradation is occurring more rapidly than in terrestrial ecosystems.”
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“Analysis of historical trends globally provided here shows that freshwaters are being depleted, and ecosystems degraded, even more rapidly than their terrestrial counterparts (Fig. 1; Table 1).”
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“Note freshwater utilization is now a stronger limiting factor on human populations than terrestrial utilization.”
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“Note freshwater populations declined an estimated 81% from 1970 to 2012.”
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“The linear model projects global wetlands to disappear entirely by midcentury.”
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“The human utilization of both global freshwater and terrestrial resources shows persistent and linear increases over the past half century.”
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“Note rate of biodiversity decline is faster in freshwater than terrestrial systems, and occurring alongside reductions in Global Wetland Loss.”
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“Sediment retention by dams leads to delta recession (Luo et al. 2017) and degraded coastal fisheries and tropical mangrove forests, indirectly affecting carbon storage that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the latter case (Atwood et al. 2017).”
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- Supportedcites Luo et al. 2017 source
Luo et al. is cited for the link between sediment retention by dams and delta recession; the fisheries, mangroves, and carbon-storage claims are attached to a different citation. The Abstract reports erosion of the Yangtze subaqueous delta after construction of the Three Gorges Dam and attributes it mainly to reduced river sediment discharge. The Discussion likewise predicts continued erosion as engineering retains more sediment. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The species illustrated roughly represent the proportions of endangered freshwater vertebrates, with greater threats to fishes (a-c) than to tetrapods (c-f), and to Eurasian (a-c, f) than non-Eurasian (d-e) species”
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“The total volume of water planned for near-future diversion megaprojects is projected to exceed 1900 km 3 per year, representing an additional * 5% of total global surface freshwater flow (Shumilova et al. 2018).”
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“About one fifth of the Earth's arable land is now already equipped for irrigation, including all the most productive lands, and this proportion is projected to surpass one third by midcentury to feed the rapidly expanding populations of humans and commensal species, especially poultry and ruminant livestock.”
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“The largest imminent threats come from megaprojects designed to transfer water among river basins in Brazil and India (Shumilova et al. 2018), and to drain coastal wetlands in China (Cui et al. 2016).”
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“Yet human impacts to lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands and groundwater are dramatically reducing biodiversity and robbing critical natural resources and services from current and future generations.”
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“The more rapid increase in threats to freshwater than terrestrial ecosystems arises from the minute total volume of liquid freshwater on the Earth's surface, and from the critical roles that freshwaters serve in human economic systems (Barbier 2017).”
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- Not checked yetcites Barbier 2017 source
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“Domestic ruminant livestock (* 4 thousand millions globally) contribute 14.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission, especially through the enteric fermentation by ruminants producing methane (Ripple et al. 2013).”
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“The Living Planet Index for freshwater vertebrate populations has declined to just one third that of 1970, and is projected to sink below one fifth by midcentury.”
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“Lowering the number of ruminant livestock would have the co-benefits of improving freshwater conditions and mitigating climate change.”
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“megafauna (defined as fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals C 30 kg adult body weight) declined by 88%, with mega-fishes undergoing the largest declines (-94%, Carrizo et al. 2017;He et al. 2019).”
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- Not matchedcites Carrizo et al. 2017; He et al. 2019
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“The Yangtze basin is among the most impacted of any large river on Earth, with the last citings of two species occurring in the 2000s; i.e., the Yangtze river dolphin Lipotes vexillifer (Turvey et al. 2007), and the Yangtze paddlefish Psephurus gladius (Zhang et al. 2009).”
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“Global populations of domestic ruminants (cattle, sheep, and goats) (Ripple et al. 2013) poultry, and pigs (Bennett et al. 2018) used to feed the growing human population now exceed 100 million tons of carbon (Bar-On et al. 2018), and livestock populations are growing rapidly.”
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“The total biomass of all humans alive today constitutes approximately 60 million metric tons of carbon, which is slightly more than 10 times that of all the remaining wild mammals of the world (Smil 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites Smil 2011 source
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“Agricultural practices also degrade the quality and ecological status of the freshwater ecosystems, with status improvements remaining slow and difficult long after environmental regulations have been put in place requiring such improvements (Destouni et al. 2017).”
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“Worldwide, agriculture accounts for about 70% of all freshwater usage, compared to 20% for industry and 10% for domestic uses (FAO 2016).”
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- Not checked yetcites FAO 2016
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“Withdrawals and diversions (Jaramillo and Destouni 2015) as well as agricultural expansion and intensification (Destouni et al. 2013) are main threats to freshwater availability and quality (Destouni and Jarsjo ¨2018), while fragmentation and flow regulation (Winemiller et al. 2016) are main threats to freshwater biodiversity by altering rivers, floodplain lakes, wetlands and estuaries.”
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“Damages are seen in the total area of anthropogenic (urban and agricultural) modified landscapes worldwide, wetlands reduction, and amount of surface and subsurface flows that have been diminished or degraded (Gleeson et al. 2016).”
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“Altered flow seasonality in rivers has led to less diverse fish assemblages, decreased inland fisheries production, less stable bird populations and lower riparian forest production (Jardine et al. 2015;Kingsford et al. 2017;Sabo et al. 2017).”
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“Demands on global freshwaters continue to grow rapidly, with efforts to expand global food production by 50-70% before 2050 (Molden 2007;FAO 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites Molden 2007
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“The global human population is projected to reach 9.6-12.3thousand millions people by the year 2100, and the human appropriation of (terrestrial) net primary productivity (HANPP) to reach 40-60% (Krausmann et al. 2013).”
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“Increased human population and socio-economic activities also increase the pollutant and nutrient loads that deteriorate water quality and ecosystem status across different regions and countries around the world (Destouni and Jarsjo ¨2018; Levi et al. 2018).”
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“Water withdrawals and diversions currently cause about one-quarter of the world's rivers to run dry before reaching the ocean, and have drained major inland water bodies like the Aral Sea in Central Asia (Destouni et al. 2013) and Lake Urmia in Iran (Khazaei et al. 2019).”
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“Among the most effective methods for stabilizing human population growth are to provide primary and secondary education for girls, and voluntary family planning education for women in developing countries (Leigh and Blakely 2017).”
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- Not checked yetcites Leigh and Blakely 2017
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“Therefore, a linear growth model may be able to persist well into this century, despite the obvious crises that would follow as we reach or surpass the Earth's freshwater capacity.”
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“Dams also prevent upstreamdownstream movement of freshwater animals, facilitate settlement of non-native species, cause local species extirpations and replacements and increase risk of waterborne diseases in reservoirs and highly altered environments by modifying productivity (Fenwick 2006;Poff and Schmidt 2016).”
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“The volume of water used by the energy sector alone represents about 15% of global freshwater withdrawals, and extracting and processing freshwater represents about 19% of total usage by the energy sector (Fricko et al. 2016).”
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“Dams transform river basins by creating artificial lakes locally, fragmenting river networks, and greatly distorting natural patterns of sediment transport and seasonal variations in water temperatures and flows (Latrubesse et al. 2017).”
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- Not checked yetcites Latrubesse et al. 2017 source
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“Freshwater species and ecosystems are increasingly threatened by many human activities, including habitat alteration, water pollution, overfishing, exotic species introduction, river diversions, fragmentation and flow regulation, expansion of agricultural and urban landscapes, climate change, rising sea levels and altered precipitation regimes (Dudgeon 2019;Grill et al. 2019;IPBES 2019).”
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“Freshwater ecosystems are also among the most diverse per unit habitat volume on Earth, with more than 140 000 species (i.e., fungi, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates; c. 12% of all described species) compressed into just * 2% of the world's surface area, and a minute * 0.007% of the total planetary water supply (Reid et al. 2019).”
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“In the twentieth century, the human population grew fourfold and human appropriation of energy from the biosphere about doubled from 13 to 25% (Krausmann et al. 2013).”
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“The main conservation threats to these species come from human activities, including overharvesting, pollution, introducing invasive species, and habitat modifications (e.g., water diversions, land-use changes, climate change).”
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“The fragmentation of river corridors also reduces population sizes and gene flows of aquatic species, increasing species extinction risks (Cohen et al. 2016a, b;Dias et al. 2017).”
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Humanity can still halt and undo the sharp declines in freshwater life and habitats.
“slowing and reversing dramatic losses of freshwater species and ecosystems is still possible.”
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If current practices continue, the past straight-line growth in human use of freshwater and land resources will persist.
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Technologies already exist that can manage and reduce many parts of the freshwater biodiversity crisis.
“We currently have technologies to manage and ameliorate many aspects of the freshwater biodiversity crisis-what we lack is political will.”
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Tropical developing countries will see the largest increases in human density and per-capita water use over the next 50 years.
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A world with reduced freshwater will harm many dimensions of human welfare.
“A world with diminished freshwaters will impoverish many aspects of human welfare, and we risk further damaging these essential life-support systems at our peril.”
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Moving agricultural and bioenergy production from high-income to low-income tropical regions would increase threats to species-rich tropical aquatic ecosystems.
“However, we must not relocate agricultural and bioenergy production from highincome to low-income tropical regions, which will further threaten species-rich tropical aquatic ecosystems.”
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“Inland waters cover less than 2 per cent of the Earth's surface, but support 12 per cent of known species, 1 and more than half of all fish species, 2 with high levels of endemism.3”
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§ Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis > Abstract
“The Living Planet Index for freshwater vertebrate populations has declined to just one third that of 1970, and is projected to sink below one fifth by midcentury.”
§ Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis > Abstract
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Metadata
- Authors
- Albert, J. S., Destouni, G., Duke-Sylvester, S. M., Magurran, A. E., Oberdorff, T., Reis, R. E., Winemiller, K. O., & Ripple, W. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette (US)
- Stockholm University (SE)
- University of St Andrews (GB)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (BR)
- Texas A&M University at Galveston (US)
- Oregon State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Albert, James S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Ambio
- Published
- 2020-02-10
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 85-94
- ISSN
- 0044-7447 (ISSN-L)
- 1654-7209
- PMC
- PMC7708569
- OpenAlex
- W3006601371
- Cited by
- 943
- References
- 100
- Citations by year
- 2026: 149 · 2025: 175 · 2024: 181 · 2023: 149 · 2022: 156 · 2021: 107 · 2020: 24
- FWCI
- 69.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- AMBIO (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- PUCRS Repository (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0614334, 0741450, 1354511)
- Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas (2016-02045)
- H2020 European Research Council (AdG 250189)
- Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Ciência Animal (306455/2014-5)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Keywords
- freshwater ecosystem degradation, freshwater biodiversity loss, irrigation expansion, Living Planet Index, ecosystem services, ecological restoration, watershed management
- MeSH terms
- Brazil, China, Conservation of Natural Resources, Fresh Water, Humans, India, Ecosystem, Biodiversity
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