Sentences with phrase «downstream aquatic ecosystems»
Those bacteria can share their resistance with other bacteria that happen to be on crops and in downstream aquatic ecosystems — bacteria that could cause illness, Chénier says.
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).
That's just on land; building the dam (and this is true for both large - scale and run of river projects) disrupts the aquatic ecosystem as well, both upstream and downstream.