Journal
CONSERVATION LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12771
Keywords
climate change; conservation; ecosystem services; rivers; sustainable development goals; water resources; wetlands
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Funding
- Fulbright Early Career Scholar Award from the Fulbright Spain Commission
- NERC Highlight Topic Hydroscape [NE/N006437/1]
- GLANCE project from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01LN1320A]
- BMBF BIBS project [01LC1501G1]
- Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government (2016-2021 StrategicResearch programme)
- Leibniz Competition [J45/2018]
- FCT (CESAM) [UID/AMB/50017/2019]
- J. E. Purkyne Fellowship of the Czech Academy of Science
- Ramon y Cajal Contract [RYC-2013-13979]
- NERC [NE/N006437/1, NE/N00597X/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Plans are underway for the next decade of action on biodiversity, with a focus on freshwater biodiversity. Despite being disproportionately threatened, freshwater biodiversity has not received enough attention in policies and strategies. It is crucial for future actions to prioritize the unique ecology and threats facing freshwater ecosystems, and to incorporate recommendations based on past experiences and recent literature.
Plans are currently being drafted for the next decade of action on biodiversity-both the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Biodiversity Strategy of the European Union (EU). Freshwater biodiversity is disproportionately threatened and underprioritized relative to the marine and terrestrial biota, despite supporting a richness of species and ecosystems with their own intrinsic value and providing multiple essential ecosystem services. Future policies and strategies must have a greater focus on the unique ecology of freshwater life and its multiple threats, and now is a critical time to reflect on how this may be achieved. We identify priority topics including environmental flows, water quality, invasive species, integrated water resources management, strategic conservation planning, and emerging technologies for freshwater ecosystem monitoring. We synthesize these topics with decades of first-hand experience and recent literature into 14 special recommendations for global freshwater biodiversity conservation based on the successes and setbacks of European policy, management, and research. Applying and following these recommendations will inform and enhance the ability of global and European post-2020 biodiversity agreements to halt and reverse the rapid global decline of freshwater biodiversity.
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