Sustaining Freshwater Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

摘要: Globally, fresh water is a limited resource, covering only about 0.8 % of the world’s surface area. With over 126,000 species living in its ecosystems, freshwater harbours disproportionate share planet’s biodiversity; it essential for life, and central to satisfying human development needs. However, as we enter Anthropocene, multiple threats are affecting systems at global scale. The combined challenges an increasing need from growing wealthier population, uncertainty how adapt definite but unpredictable climate change, significantly add this stress. It imperative that landscape managers policy-makers think carefully strategic adaptive management order both effectively conserve natural plants animals live within, continue supply populations with benefits they need. Maintaining biodiversity necessary ensure functioning ecosystems thereby secure can provide people. Thus also important element viable economic alternatives sustainable use capital. In achieve do better job monitoring our biodiversity, understanding function, evaluating what means terms service delivery.