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Decline of the World’s Saline Lakes
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Decline of the World’s Saline Lakes |
| Creator | Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A. Miller, Craig Null, Sarah E. DeRose, R. Justin Wilcock, Peter Hahnenberger, Maura Howe, Frank Moore, Johnnie |
| Description | Many of the world's saline lakes are shrinking at alarming rates, reducing waterbird habitat and economic benefits while threatening human health. Saline lakes are long-term basin-wide integrators of climatic conditions that shrink and grow with natural climatic variation. In contrast, water withdrawals for human use exert a sustained reduction in lake inflows and levels. Quantifying the relative contributions of natural variability and human impacts to lake inflows is needed to preserve... |
| Date | 2017-10-23T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1001 info:doi/10.1038/ngeo3052 https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3052 |
| Rights | Copyright for this work is held by the author. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information contact the Institutional Repository Librarian at digitalcommons@usu.edu. |
| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Nature Geoscience |
| Subject | environmental sciences limnology water resources |
