https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/629904
標題: | Scientists' warning of threats to mountains | 作者: | Schmeller, Dirk S. Urbach, Davnah Bates, Kieran Catalan, Jordi Cogălniceanu, Dan Fisher, Matthew C. Friesen, Jan Füreder, Leopold Gaube, Veronika Haver, Marilen Jacobsen, Dean Le Roux, Gael YU-PIN LIN Loyau, Adeline Machate, Oliver Mayer, Andreas Palomo, Ignacio Plutzar, Christoph Sentenac, Hugo Sommaruga, Ruben Tiberti, Rocco Ripple, William J. |
關鍵字: | Climate change | Environmental health | Policy | Pollution | Sustainable development goals | 公開日期: | 20-十二月-2022 | 出版社: | ELSEVIER | 卷: | 853 | 來源出版物: | Science of the Total Environment | 摘要: | Mountains are an essential component of the global life-support system. They are characterized by a rugged, heterogenous landscape with rapidly changing environmental conditions providing myriad ecological niches over relatively small spatial scales. Although montane species are well adapted to life at extremes, they are highly vulnerable to human derived ecosystem threats. Here we build on the manifesto ‘World Scientists' Warning to Humanity’, issued by the Alliance of World Scientists, to outline the major threats to mountain ecosystems. We highlight climate change as the greatest threat to mountain ecosystems, which are more impacted than their lowland counterparts. We further discuss the cascade of “knock-on” effects of climate change such as increased UV radiation, altered hydrological cycles, and altered pollution profiles; highlighting the biological and socio-economic consequences. Finally, we present how intensified use of mountains leads to overexploitation and abstraction of water, driving changes in carbon stock, reducing biodiversity, and impacting ecosystem functioning. These perturbations can provide opportunities for invasive species, parasites and pathogens to colonize these fragile habitats, driving further changes and losses of micro- and macro-biodiversity, as well further impacting ecosystem services. Ultimately, imbalances in the normal functioning of mountain ecosystems will lead to changes in vital biological, biochemical, and chemical processes, critically reducing ecosystem health with widespread repercussions for animal and human wellbeing. Developing tools in species/habitat conservation and future restoration is therefore essential if we are to effectively mitigate against the declining health of mountains. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/629904 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85138063421&doi=10.1016%2fj.scitotenv.2022.158611&partnerID=40&md5=cd88c1360fa2ba4b29fd46bce0a286f8 |
ISSN: | 00489697 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158611 | SDG/關鍵字: | Climate change; Conservation; Economic and social effects; Ecosystems; Environmental protection; Health; Health risks; Landforms; Pollution; Radiation effects; Sustainable development Ecological niche; Environmental conditions; Environmental health; Hydrological cycles; Knock-on effect; Life supports; Mountain ecosystems; Spatial scale; Support systems; Sustainable development goal climate change; conservation; environmental policy; environmental quality; mountain environment; pollution; restoration ecology; Sustainable Development Goal biodiversity; climate change; ecological niche; ecosystem restoration; environmental health; environmental policy; environmental protection; human; hydrological model; invasive species; land use; mountain; nonhuman; parasite; pollution; Review; scientist; socioeconomics; threat; ultraviolet radiation; vegetation; wellbeing; animal; biodiversity; ecosystem |
顯示於: | 生物環境系統工程學系 |
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