1. Documenting the impacts of increasing salinity in freshwater and coastal ecosystems: Introduction to the special issue.
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Melles, Stephanie J., Cañedo‐Argüelles, Miguel, and Derry, Alison M.
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SALTWATER encroachment , *WETLANDS , *FRESH water , *SALINITY , *SEAWATER salinity , *CLIMATE change , *WATER pollution , *POLYWATER - Abstract
Freshwater salinization is the process of changing ion concentrations (e.g., Na SP + sp , Mg SP 2+ sp , K+, Cl SP - sp , HT ht , HT ht ) relative to background levels due to human activities (e.g., agriculture, application of road de-icing salts, water and resource extraction, climate change, and sea-level rise; Williams [75]; Cañedo-Argüelles et al. [10]). Study reveals road salt is increasing salinization of lakes and killing zooplankton, harming freshwater ecosystems that provide drinking water in North America and Europe [accessed 2022 October 12]. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/t3o15q/study reveals road salt is increasing/. Complex impacts of salinity on associated freshwater ecosystems Impacts of increasing dissolved salts extend to muddled lake deltas that may once have persisted as unique ecosystems (Richardson et al. [62]). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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