ReviewBiology letters2016
Salinized rivers: degraded systems or new habitats for salt-tolerant faunas?
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33 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Larval Adaptation to Salinity Shock in Cane Toads (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Emerging Global Threat of Salt Contamination of Water Supplies in Tidal Rivers.Environmental science & technology letters · 2025Review
- Salinisation effects on benthic invertebrate assemblages in shallow lakes in arid and semiarid climate zones.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Joint species distribution models reveal taxon-specific sensitivities to potential anthropogenic alteration.Freshwater science (Print) · 2023Article
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- Bicarbonate alone does not totally explain the toxicity from major ions of coal bed derived waters to freshwater invertebrates.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2022Article
- Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The evolution of marine dwelling in Diptera.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Salinization of Alpine rivers during winter months.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Lethal and sublethal effects of the saline stressor sodium chloride on Chironomus xanthus and Girardia tigrina.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- Salinity tolerance and geographical origin predict global alien amphipod invasions.Biology letters · 2020Article
- It's all about the fluxes: Temperature influences ion transport and toxicity in aquatic insects.Aquatic toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Article
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- Warmer temperatures interact with salinity to weaken physiological facilitation to stress in freshwater fishes.Conservation physiology · 2020Article
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- Response of the mollusc communities to environmental factors along an anthropogenic salinity gradient.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2019Article
- The influence of potential stressors on oviposition site selection and subsequent growth, survival and emergence of the non-biting midge (Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Insect communities in saline waters consist of realized but not fundamental niche specialists.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
Anthropogenic salinization of rivers is an emerging issue of global concern, with significant adverse effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Impacts of freshwater salinization on biota are strongly mediated by evolutionary history, as this is a major factor determining species physiological salinity tolerance. Freshwater insects dominate most flowing waters, and the common lotic insect orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies), Plecoptera (stoneflies) and Trichoptera (caddisflies) are particularly salt-sensitive. Tolerances of existing taxa, rapid adaption, colonization by novel taxa (from naturally saline environments) and interactions between species will be key drivers of assemblages in saline lotic systems. Here we outline a conceptual framework predicting how communities may change in salinizing rivers. We envision that a relatively small number of taxa will be saline-tolerant and able to colonize salinized rivers (e.g. most naturally saline habitats are lentic; thus potential colonizers would need to adapt to lotic environments), leading to depauperate communities in these environments.
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