@article{fdi:010085904, title = {{T}ime for decisive actions to protect freshwater ecosystems from global changes}, author = {{O}berdorff, {T}hierry}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{F}reshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity provide fundamental services to humans such as nutritional resources production, water provisioning, water purification, recreation, and more globally climate regulation. {A}nthropogenic impacts on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity are already strong and will most probably increase in the near future. {A}nthropogenic drivers are widely known and include in particular, climate change, habitat shrinking and/or modification due to land-use (e.g. water abstraction for human and agricultural consumption, urbanization), habitat fragmentation and homogenization in stream flow dynamics due to the damming of rivers, introduction of non-native species, dumping of nutrient or organic loadings increasing eutrophication processes, and biodiversity over-exploitation. {H}ere, {I} review the current and future effects of these anthropogenic drivers on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity and provide some few examples of existing solutions, either technological, nature-based or policy-based, that could be applied globally to halt and/or minimize their negative consequences. {H}owever, success will require systemic changes across public policy and a sufficient political will to do so.}, keywords = {{I}nland waters ; biodiversity ; global change ; conservation}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{K}nowledge and {M}anagement of {A}quatic {E}cosystems}, numero = {423}, pages = {19 [11 p.]}, ISSN = {1961-9502}, year = {2022}, DOI = {10.1051/kmae/2022017}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010085904}, }