- Title
- Links between water temperatures, ecological responses and flow rates: a framework for establishing water temperature guidelines for the ecological reserve
- Creator
- Rivers-Moore, Nick A, Hughes, Denis A, Mantel, Sukhmani K
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438295
- Identifier
- vital:73449
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-77005-738-8
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/KV214-CONSERVATION.pdf
- Description
- Global ecosystems face unprecedented crises in habitat fragmentation, destruction and ultimately extinction (Groves, 2003), and of all the vary-ing ecological systems rivers are the most neglected and endangered (Groves, 2003; Driver, et al., 2005; Roux et al., 2005). The greatest threat to these systems is the loss or degradation of natural habitat and processes (Driver et al., 2005), and water temperatures, after flow vol-umes, are a primary abiotic driver of species patterns within river sys-tems. Stuckenberg (1969) highlighted the links between temperature, topography and faunal assemblages, while Rivers-Moore et al.(2004) highlights the major impacts of water temperatures on organisms, and illustrate how water temperatures are one of the primary environmental drivers structuring fish communities in the Sabie River, arguably the most icthyologically species-rich river in South Africa.
- Format
- 67 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Rivers-Moore, N.A., Hughes, D.A. and Mantel, S., 2008. Links between water temperatures, ecological responses and flow rates: a framework for establishing water temperature guidelines for the ecological reserve. Pretoria: Water Research Commission
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