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- Title
Climate change impacts on a Mediterranean river and the associated interactions with the adjacent coastal area.
- Authors
Mentzafou, Angeliki; Vamvakaki, Chrysa; Zacharias, Ierotheos; Gianni, Areti; Dimitriou, Elias
- Abstract
The Spercheios river basin-coastal marine area is a complex natural and interdependent ecosystem, highly affected by human activities and interventions. Such sensitive systems are even more vulnerable to alterations of the hydrological cycle components and it is likely to be rapidly and severely affected by climate change. In order to examine the climate change impacts on water resources of the study area, the interaction between the hydrology of the river basin and the hydrodynamic of the coastal marine area was examined using two models. Based on the results, although the irrigation needs decrease for the years 2050 and 2100 due to corresponding decrease in cultivated areas, temperature increase and precipitation decrease are both expected to influence the water resources of the Spercheios river basin, which will directly affect the Maliakos Gulf hydrodynamics. The necessity to adopt a holistic approach which will treat river basins and coastal marine areas as an integrated whole, with regard to environmental, socio-economic and political framework, is evident.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; ECOLOGICAL disturbances; EFFECT of human beings on climate change; WATER supply; IRRIGATION
- Publication
Environmental Earth Sciences, 2017, Vol 76, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1866-6280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12665-017-6572-2